Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung thanked the World Bank (WB) for its effective assistance to the development of Vietnam over the past years during his meeting with WB President Jim Yong Kim in Hanoi on July 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eleven tourists from Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom witnessed a landmine destruction mission in Cam Lo district of the central province of Quang Tri.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Aside from large fishing vessels, marine economic development requires a lot of missions to be implemented synchronously.  - The Saigon Times Daily had a talk with Nguyen Huu Dung, vice chairman of VASEP

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese photographer Murayama Yasufumi plans to organise a photo exhibition displaying 40 photos of Vietnamese residents, including fishermen, living in the central provinces.

The Ministry of Education and Training has decided to apply a new student assessment mechanism in the 2014-2015 academic year, under which primary students will be given comments instead of marks.

The Geneva Agreement, which will reach its 60th anniversary on July 20, marks an important milestone in the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people and is considered a great victory of Vietnamese diplomatic sector.

 Vinalines takes losses for 5th consecutive year; Vietnam becomes ideal market for beer producers; New State-owned enterprises must focus on critical areas; HCM City:Exponential retail growth on the horizon

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) has announced plans for initial public offerings (IPOs) for five more large port operators by the end of the year. Hai Phong Port has already been equitised.

 A helicopter that had been involved in the search for missing passengers from the sunken Sewol ferry has crashed in the South Korean city of Gwangju, killing all five people on board.

The World Bank believes that Vietnam has about 110 super-rich people. However, analysts say no one can say for sure how many super-rich there are in Vietnam, and it is also unclear how they got rich.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Bill Clinton will come to Vietnam on July 18 as a representative of the HIV/AIDS prevention program of the Clinton Foundation.

VietNamNet Bridge - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on July 17 began an official visit to Vietnam in an aim to strengthen relationships between the two sides.

 A powerful storm that battered the central Philippines has killed 38 people and left millions without power.

 Typhoon Rammasun, also known as Glenda, is on a path that leads to it making landfall in Nam Dinh and Haiphong, according to the latest bulletin from the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.

On July 14, the Southern Airport Authority ordered that companies lower their food prices at Tan Son Nhat Airport, where the exorbitant prices have drawn complaints for a long time.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The dollar price has been falling for one week, despite the State Bank of Vietnam’s move to devaluate the dong by one percent one month ago.

 At least 42 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide attack at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, local officials say.

Economists have described three possible scenarios for Vietnam-China economic relations in the context of the East Sea situation, with the most likely scenario one of “struggling and cooperating at the same time”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, the Nam Hai in Hoi An and the Park Hyatt Saigon have been ranked among the top hotels and resorts in Asia by readers of the US Travel + Leisure magazine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Images of ethnic people with indigenous tattoos and bare chests depicting life in the Central Highlands, are among rare pictures displayed at an exhibition that opened on July 10 in Ha Noi.