The industry and trade sector expects to make a beeline for realising its export turnover target of 188 billion USD in 2017, or 6.9 percent higher than last year.

 Hoteliers are attracted to Viet Nam by a rapidly growing tourism sector, robust economic development and infrastructure investments, real estate consultancy JLL has said.

 The agriculture sector will have to step up efforts in many areas to meet three major targets set for the year, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has said.

The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resource announced that the import suspension on uncooked prawns would lapse on July 6, 2017.

 Authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong halted the Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival on Saturday after a man was gored to death by his buffalo.

 HCM City plans to begin construction of 48 new traffic projects and complete 19 congestion projects in the last six months of the year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

The number of children admitted to the Hanoi-based National Paediatrics Hospital for disorders following the use of a traditional medicine called thuốc cam has increased.

 Vietnam’s macro economy remained stable in the first six months of 2017 while inflation was curbed so as to reach the national steering committee on price management’s yearly target of 4 percent.

 The nation’s elite junior chess players are all heading to the city of Da Lat in the central highland province of Lam Dong July 5 for this year’s National Junior Chess Championship.

 Foreign firms are hoping to tap into Vietnam’s cosmetics market as consumers are becoming more beauty-conscious.

 Hoang Xuan Vinh has retained his position as the world’s top 10-metre air pistol shooter with 2,542 points, according to the July 2017 men’s rankings from the International Shooting Sport Federation.

 Vietnam saw good socio-economic development indexes in the first six months of 2017, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed at the Government’s regular meeting on July 3.

VietNamNet Bridge - Contractors fulfilling transport infrastructure projects are mostly from South Korea and China, according to a report released by the Ministry of Transport (MOT).

Freshman Nguyen Phuc Sang of the Ho Chi Minh city University of Economics and Finance has recently introduced hats made from coir, which are cheap and environmentally-friendly.

 As an attractive industry in Vietnam, the life insurance market is luring a wide range of international investors.

 Vietnam’s international connectivity will be improved once the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT)’s internet service via the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) is offered in July.

 Two young Vietnamese badminton players Nguyen Thuy Linh and Pham Cao Cuong have leapt up the latest Badminton World Federation rankings.

 Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains since June 19 have killed six persons in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. 

A new set of regulations will be imposed on companies either looking to be or already listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange’s Unlisted Public Company Market.

Many parents in Hanoi have forced their children to take on extra classes to revise and prepare for the coming academic year in spite of the city’s ban on additional schooling in June and July.