The Da Nang People’s Committee proposed to Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh at a meeting in late July that an additional 80-100 gambling tables be allowed at the Silver Shores International Resort.

The prime minister has approved investment for phase 2 of the secondary education development programme, aimed at enhancing conditions for ensuring the quality of secondary education.

 Vietnam’s largest property developer, Vingroup, recorded impressive financial results in the first half of the year and plans to issue shares to existing shareholders.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Beer Limited (VBL) has announced its new name as Heineken Vietnam Beer Ltd., with 40 percent of capital held by Saigon Trade Corporation (Satra) and 60% by Heineken Asia Pacific.

 The 15th Hanoi municipal People’s Council at its second plenary session on August 3 passed a resolution on naming and adjusting the length of a number of roads, streets and public buildings in the capital city.

 Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has announced its final list of shareholders for the next issuance of nearly 242 million shares to raise equity.

The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) on Tuesday approved in principle South Korean Woori Bank's plan to set up a wholly foreign owned bank in Viet Nam.

 Vietnamese consumer confidence continues staying high, despite a slight drop in Q2 this year, with an index score of 107, two point lower than the previous quarter.

 The Van Thinh Phat Investment Group (VTP Group) on August 3 signed an investment cooperation agreement with Malaysian investors Pavilion Group and Genting Group to develop a park and housing complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s leaders and newly-elected lawmakers began a three-day session of the People’s Council on August 3 to discuss socio-economic targets amid many complaints about extended flooding, traffic jams and pollution.

 Non-performing loans (NPLs) as of the end of May accounted for 2.78 percent of the entire banking system’s total outstanding loans.

 The Ministry of Health has taken stronger preventive measures against the Zika virus across the country, particularly in central Phu Yen province where a local man recently tested positive for the virus.

 Economic ministers and deputy ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) mulled several important matters during the 48th ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting that began in Vientiane, Laos on August 3.

 Leaders of northern mountainous province of Ha Giang and the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Yunnan province have agreed to promote exchange and multifaceted links in a practical and effective manner in the time ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two years after leaving FPT, Truong Dinh Anh, its former CEO, moved to live and work in the US.

VietNamNet Bridge - Yen Tu mountain in Quang Ninh province is the home to 230 xich tung (red pine) treeshundreds of years old but half of them are nearly dead due to severe disease. Local authorities are looking for measures to save the rare trees.

VnExpress, an online newspaper, has opened an online shop to sell iPhones, while The Gioi Di Dong, a mobile phone distribution chain, has decided to sell vegetable and meat. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of hectares of forests in Dak Lak province have been cut down to make room for hydropower plants, threatening the survival of forests in the Central Highlands. 

More and more errors have been found in newly published dictionaries. Local newspapers said that the market is flooded with ‘rubbish dictionaries’, and analysts have warned that these dictionaries will spoil the Vietnamese language.

 Prime Minister Nguuyen Xuan Phuc reiterated the Government's determination to strictly punish environmental violations at an August 3 meeting with voters from the northern port city of Hai Phong.