The legal status and progress of properties will be made available to the public in order to reduce the risks for home buyers, according to an HCM City official.

  Vietnam’s exports to the United Kingdom will face several barriers if the country leaves the European Union, stated Dang Hoang Hai, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s European Market Department on June 27.

The National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) garnered more than 2.4 billion USD from selling 8.68 million tonnes of crude oil and condensate in the first half of this year, fulfilling 37.15 percent of the yearly target.

 Search and rescue forces found the two black boxes of the missing rescue aircraft CASA 212 at a depth of between 50-60 metres under the sea level, 26 nautical miles south-southeast of Bach Long Vi Island of northern Hai Phong city on June 27.

 The Vietnamese Party, State and people attach much importance to reinforcing and enhancing the friendly neighbourliness and comprehensive cooperation with China, President Tran Dai Quang has said.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Pham Xuan Son, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, is attending the second phase of the 15 th Congress of the United Russia (ER) Party from June 26-28.

Ho Chi Minh City should be turned into a smart city capable of deeply joining regional and global value chains and competing with its counterparts in Asia.

A long-awaited draft decree, which for the first time allows Vietnamese residents to gamble in casinos, has just been submitted to the government after seven years of compilation.

 Early alarm bells have been rung about the potential unbalanced development in supply and demand in the realty market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Software firms have urged training establishments to reconsider the training process and apply measures to improve the workforce for the software industry.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many foreign cafe chains have stalled after a period of development, while some have closed because they could not survive the competition. 

VietNamNet Bridge - While customers of all mobile networks complain about slow 3G services, network operators say their 3G network capacity is large and speed is sufficient.

 The police uncovered 21,000 criminal cases and arrested more than 42,700 in the first half of this year, 2.37 percent higher than the same period last year, the Ministry of Public Security announced at a press conference in Hanoi on June 27.

AirCraft Company Vietnam-Germany GBR has submitted a plan to develop a $200 million solar power plant in central Quang Tri province.

 Vietnam ICT COMM 2016, an exhibition of information and communication products and technology in Vietnam, will take place here on July 20-22.

 Vietnam and China agreed to enhance political trust, maintain high-level visits and strive for new progress in their result-oriented cooperation at the ninth meeting of the steering committee for bilateral cooperation in Hanoi on June 27.

 Laos’ top legislator Pany Yathotou called for closer cooperation between Laos and Vietnam in ethnic and religious affairs in a reception on June 27 for a delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Council for Ethnic Affairs.

 Hanoi’s authorities plan to encourage the use of public transport and limit individual vehicles, moving towards eliminating private means of transport by 2025.

  The UK’s decision to leave the European Union sent the Vietnamese stock market into turbulence last Friday, but experts noted that the effects are likely to be short-term.

Local police have identified a circus in Vinh Phuc Province as the unwitting producer of dangerous lasers affecting incoming flights.