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.

 A total of 9.11 million passengers arrived at Vietnamese airports in July, up 12.2% over the same period of 2016, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). 

 Software and legal documents on cybercrime prevention will soon be launched in Viet Nam.

 Shares continued rising in early August but observers are predicting a slowdown in the short term as shares have become expensive and exposed to profit-taking risk.

 Vina T&T Import – Export Service Trading Co Ltd last week exported its first batch of fresh coconuts to the US, which is considered to be a difficult market.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) produced 9.23 million tonnes of oil in the first seven months of this year, exceeding the target set for the period.

 Software and legal documents on cybercrime prevention will soon be launched in Việt Nam.

 Canada has pledged to continue supporting Vietnam to increase capacity to cope with non-traditional security challenges, including climate change and environmental issues.

 The only decree regulating swiftlet farming in Vietnam went into force in 2013 and imposed conditions on the location of farms, their cleanliness and maintenance among other things.

 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for financial institutions are luring in numerous domestic and international investors due to the attractiveness of the rapidly developing, US$26.55-billion consumer finance market.

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has appealed to ASEAN to intensify exchanges with China to soon start pragmatic negotiations of the Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC), making it effective and legally binding. 

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh had bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and Laos in Manila, the Philippines, on August 5.

 The foreign ministers of ASEAN have reviewed the bloc’s achievements recorded over the past 50 years and put forth major development orientations for the ASEAN Community in the time ahead. 

 More than 5,000 athletes, both professional and amateur, from 44 countries and territories, participated in the Da Nang International Marathon 2017 in central coastal Da Nang city on August 6.