Heavy rain mixed with thunder and lightning killed three children and injured three others in the north-western province of Lao Cai on July 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After one day and one night running at full speed, without any GPS devices, 13 fishermen from the central provinces of Quang Binh and Quang Ngai on July 16 returned to their homeland safely.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will visit a number of European nations and attend an ASEAN-EU meeting next week.

 Shares advanced on both national stock exchanges last week after posting losses in the previous week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – King Norodom Sihamoni said he was satisfied with the positive development of the friendship, solidarity and cooperation between Cambodia and Vietnam over the years, especially in economics and trade.

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 80% of cargo containers in HCM City must go through Cat Lai port, but the port has been overloaded for several weeks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has decided to appoint a Vietnamese citizen as its Honorary Consul in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge - VietJet Air on July 16 made its debut flight from Da Nang (Vietnam) to Seoul (South Korea).

Korean NA Speaker highlights relations with Vietnam; Vietnam fosters ties with Dominican Republic; Vietnam attends anniversary of Nicaragua’s revolution victory; Vietnam hopes for peace, stability in Ukraine

 US Secretary of State John Kerry says there is overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Japanese government has resumed official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam after a brief suspension over a graft scandal involving the Japan Transportation Consultants Inc. (JTC).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dep Fashion Runway 3, a fashion event held by Dep Magazine, will continue to select models through August 12, reports Vietnamplus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students have bagged three gold and two silver medals at the 45th International Physics Olympiad taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from July 13-21, placing overall among the top ten.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three leading football coaches from FC Barcelona are coming to Vietnam to assist in the training and selection of young Asian football talents aged 13-14 at the upcoming Football Dreams tournament.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam A entered the final of the men's team event beating Vietnam B 3-0 at the Golden Paddle International Table Tennis Championships on July 18.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A taskforce policeman has been killed and another seriously wounded after a big drug trafficking ring was razed in the northern border province of Son La on July 19.

VietNamNet would like to introduce to our readers an article about conflicts in the South and East China Sea by the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany James D. Bindenagel, published on the US-based Boston Global Forum.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of the 298 passengers killed on the fateful Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight shot down over eastern Ukraine, three were passengers of Vietnamese origin.

Soldier Nguyen Van Tuan of the Hanoi Command died at 10:45 am on July 19 after two weeks of treatment at the National Burn Institute because of his injuries, bringing the total number of soldiers who died in the accident to 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of July 19, three consecutive earthquakes with magnitude 4.3, 3.2 and 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Muong La district, Son La province in northern Vietnam.