Recent heavy rains and flash floods have taken the lives of 26 people and left 15 others missing and 27 injured in the northern mountainous provinces.

 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Dinh Quy and his Bangladeshi counterpart Md. Shahidul Haque co-chaired the first political consultation between Vietnam and Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 6.

The first half of 2017 has seen increased interest from Singaporean real estate firms in the Vietnamese market, with Sembcorp, CapitaLand, Mapletree, and Keppel Land among the biggest movers and shakers. 

 Vietnam’s bustling e-commerce market is drawing more attention from Singaporean firms and startups.

 A taxi driver in Danang City has been sacked after being found overcharging a South Korean tourist on August 4.

 Taxis in Hanoi must be painted the same colour from 2025 for better management according to the city's transport department.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) last week issued Decision No. 3044/QĐ-BCT to apply safeguard measures on some DAP and MAP fertiliser products imported into Viet Nam.

An electrical short-circuit has been blamed for the fire that destroyed a major church in the northern province of Nam Dinh on Saturday night.

VietNamNet Bridge - Banks are rushing to list shares on the stock market by the year-end.

 The SP2 train, which runs from the northern mountainous Lao Cai Province to Hanoi, derailed early on Monday at Hanoi's Yen Vien station, but there were no casualties.

 Vietnam topped the World Vovinam (a Vietnamese martial art form) Championships, which concluded in New Delhi, India, on August 5.

Vietnam will impose a ban on all kinds of antibiotics in livestock farming after 2020, and those currently used in animal feed are only allowed until the end of this year.

The Vietnam Rivers Network on August 2 proposed the Prime Minister immediately cancel an urban development project that aims to encroach on a section of the Dong Nai River due to numerous potential consequences. 

 Vietnam is leading the world on the rate of people living with diabetes accounting for 5.4 percent of the country’s population or five million people.

 The HCMC Department of Transport has announced that all vehicles will be banned in many streets in Districts 1 and 4 starting August 8 for celebration activities of ASEAN’s 50th founding anniversary.

BTC-E, a large virtual currency trading floor sudden ‘closure for maintenance’ has  caused anxiety among many Vietnamese investors about the fate of their billions of dong stuck at the floor.

 Although detailed information about the electronics chain to be acquired by Mobile World Investment Corporation has not been released yet, according to rumours, the chain might be Tran Anh Digital World JSC.

 Vietnam will work with Japan and Mekong nations to implement the 2015 Tokyo Strategy on Mekong-Japan cooperation and the Mekong-Japan Action Plan for Realisation of the New Tokyo Strategy for 2016-2018.

 A wedding of a young man with his wife who is a transgender in the northern province of Thanh Hoa has received lots of support from the public.

 The Saigon Securities Inc (SSI) is optimistic that the casino industry in Vietnam will thrive when the locals are allowed to gamble.