Vietnam Airlines has announced adjustments to fights between Vietnam and Taiwan (China) due to typhoon Nepartak on July 7-8.

  Professor Trinh Xuan Thuan, a Vietnamese American astrophysicist who has been famous worldwide, will attend three talk shows in HCMC between July 10 and 13.

 A recent Government Inspectorate investigation found Ha Tinh Province had violated regulations in approving the lifespan of the Formosa Plastics Group’s steel project.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s ranks highly in statistical reports about consumption of South Korean sweets, ginseng and cosmetics. 

An international conference discussing on recent developments in the East Sea and relevant policies will be held by the US Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 12.

The Philippine Navy has cancelled a scheduled port visit to Vietnam by the Philippine frigate BRP Ramon Alcaraz "due to unavoidable circumstances and the change of operational demand of the said Philippine Navy vessel."

According to statistics by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, about 263,000 workers were affected by the mass fish deaths caused by Ha Tinh-based Taiwanese steel company Formosa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On July 6 the Chairman of Da Nang City signed a decision to fine six Chinese for violating Vietnam’s immigration regulations or working without permission from the Vietnam authorities.

Although room rates plummeted, the hotel service industry of Vietnam still grossed US$15 billion in 2015, higher than $10.75 billion in 2014 thanks to the strong domestic of local guests, according to Grant Thornton.

 Vietnamese female officers are ready to join in UN international peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Central African Republic as proposed by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, according to the Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper.

 The Ministry of National Defence and the Vietnam People’s Army’s General Staff always supports and facilitates cooperation between the ministry’s Department of Legal Affairs and its Cambodian counterpart, a Vietnamese officer has said.

VietNamNet Bridge - With a series of programs and incentive packages, including the small enterprise support draft law, the state budget is expected to have a new source of revenue worth $19.2 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam spends the huge sum of VND6 billion ($250,000) to train an engineer in space technology, but pays the modest sum of VND3-5 million a month in wages to the engineer. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many areas described as the city’s ‘flooded hubs’ in the past have become dry while areas which never suffered from flooding in the past have become hotspots for floods.

VietNamNet Bridge - Taiwanese Formosa was welcomed warmly when it arrived in Vietnam 15 years ago as a major foreign investor with multi-billion dollar projects. But it has been involved in many scandals.

 Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh withdrew from the YONEX US Open on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Three northern provinces of Hai Phong, Lang Son and Lao Cai have proposed to build high-speed railways to China, according to Transport Minister Truong Quang Nghia.

Japanese agricultural businesses are making a beeline for Viet Nam since the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is set to open up their country's market and bring import tariffs down to zero.

  Nearly 110 outstanding young Vietnamese expatriates from 26 countries and territories will participate in the Vietnam Summer Camp 2016 from July 10-23.

 Swiss Professor Kurt Wuthrich who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry had a talk with over 1,000 students and science-lovers in Quy Nhon City, the central province of Binh Dinh, on July 6.