US private equity firm KKR & Co, formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP, sold half of its holdings in Viet Nam's leading consumer goods company Masan Consumer.

  Professional foreign belly-dancers will join the judging panel of the second Vietnam Belly Dance Festival held by Saigon Belly Dance at SC Vivo City shopping center in HCMC’s District 7 on July 11-12.

 Asian markets traded higher on Tuesday, recovering losses made a day earlier on fears that Greece would exit the eurozone, after voting no to bailout conditions from creditors.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and US Trade Representative Michael Froman expressed a desire to accelerate an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations at a July 6 meeting as part of Trong's ongoing trip to the US.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the building of a US$1 billion "ecological" complex on Vu Yen Island in northern Hai Phong City.

 The success of Viet Nam's push to build "new-style rural areas" depends crucially on developing transport infrastructure, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh said at a teleconference yesterday.

The four-member Vietnamese swimming team with disabilities is ready for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13-19.

 The best-performing team at the U13 Football Festival, held recently, will tour Japan from August 17 to 21.

Malaysia’s Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (FGV) has announced its plan on cooperation in the cooking oil industry with Kinh Do Corporation and regional logistics solution provider Indo Trans Logistics Corporation.

 The first trial flight linking the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and Thailand ’s Bangkok is scheduled to take off on July 21, announced the Can Tho People’s Committee on July 6.

 Foreign arrivals in Vietnam slid 11.3 percent in the first half of this year to reach over 3.8 million due to the looming MERS-CoV threat and downfall from the struggling Russian market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has issued an alert against rabies from pet dogs and cats, after two people died of the disease during the ongoing heat wave.

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai will release her latest book on patriotism on July 8 in Ha Noi.  

VietNamNet Bridge – A talk show focusing on contemporary Vietnamese trends will take place on July 8 at Heritage Space, 28 Tran Binh Street, Hanoi.  

As the only telecom enterprise that holds the dominant market position, the military telco Viettel will be the only telecom service provider to have its service fee controlled by the watchdog agency.

 The Ministry of Health has approved a project on hospital waste treatment in the central province of Quang Binh at a cost of $1.28 million sourced by the World Bank’s preferential loan.

 The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), and the Vietnam Veterans’ Association (VVA) on July 6 signed an agreement on collaboration in measuring satisfaction index of public administration services for 2015.

 Police in the northern province of Son La have detained two persons for drug trafficking.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reiterated that building new-style rural areas is a strategic policy of the Party and State while meeting with voters from Thuy Nguyen district, northern Hai Phong city, on July 6.

 Vietnam always attaches high importance to strengthening comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations and supports Japan’s role and positive contributions to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and in the world.