Airline passengers in HCM City can use helicopter service to get to Tan Son Nhat International Airport which is provided by the Southern Vietnam Helicopter Company (VNH South).

 Vietnam property company, FLC Group, which aims to start a new airline that could take to the skies for the first time early next year, is working with Airbus to lease about seven aircraft by 2018, the company's chairman said on Saturday.

 An Australian tourist died of myocardial infarction on June 10 while he and his family were on holiday in Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long City.

Ly Hoang Nam and partner Yuichi Ito were placed second in the Singapore F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament, which concluded on June 11.

 Vietnam’s real estate market attracted over 600 million USD in foreign direct investment in the first five months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office.

VietNamnet Bridge - Vietnamese choose foreign rice not because the latter is better, but because Vietnamese enterprises don’t know how to build their brands, experts say.

 Russia pays special attention to the development of comprehensive strategic partnership with Vietnam, its long-standing and reliable friend in the region, according to Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Konstantin V. Vnukov.

 Some commercial banks have entered a new interest rate hike race for long-term deposits with adjustments from 0.1-0.2 percent per year.

 As many as 96.5 percent of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) was equitised as of the end of March this year, but the privatized capital amount from these reached only 8 percent, according to a report of the General Secretary of the National Assembly. 

 The Republic of Korea topped the investor line-up in Vietnam with over 50 billion USD as of the end of 2016, according to statistics from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) released on June 12.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh called for Australian and Vietnamese businesses to foster their trade and investment partnership, prioritizing cooperation, in human resources, infrastructure, wind power and renewable power from waste.

The National Committee of Search and Rescue on Sunday urged authorities to rescue a foreign vessel stranded near Phu Quy Island off the south-central coastal province of Binh Thuan.

 A south-north train caught fire on Saturday while travelling across the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, blocking traffic on the national railway system for 30 minutes.

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 Vietnam will replace RON 92 petrol with E5 bio-fuel from the beginning of next year.

 The Vietnamese Swiftlet Farming Association under the Vietnam Farms and Agricultural Enterprises Association has made its debut in HCM City’s Can Gio District.

 Vietnam’s long-standing efforts to tackle the practice of transfer pricing as a tax avoidance ploy have gained sharper legal teeth with a new decree.

 From mid-March Sacombank has been offering certificates of deposit (CDs) denominated in dong to individuals and companies.

 The Embassy of Vietnam in Qatar has tried its best to protect Vietnamese citizens and their legitimate properties and secure life there amid the escalating diplomatic tension between Qatar and the Gulf countries, said Ambassador Nguyen Hoang. 

 Nearly 100 competitors from 30 countries and territories will race in the World Windsurfing Championship at An Bang beach in Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam from June 12 to 15.