The HCM Stock Exchange has announced the latest update to the blue-chip VN30 Index for the next six months from July 23 to January 1, 2019.

 Nguyen Hong Van and her son bought a set of sixth grade books and notebooks and pens at the Thang Long bookshop in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District.

 Foreign banks in Viet Nam have been expanding their transaction networks and increasing their charter capital in a bid to increase market share, especially in the retail banking sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s cashew industry has fallen into crisis as the cashew nut export price has been falling. 

 Viet Nam’s exports of agricultural products are expected to face more challenges by the end of the year, so enterprises must follow market developments at home and abroad and improve the quality of their products, according to experts.

 Viet Nam’s insurance industry achieved high year-on-year growth of 24.35 per cent in the first half of 2018, helping total revenue to reach more than VND58.65 trillion (US$2.55 billion).

 Electric Power Trading Company and India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Co Ltd on Monday signed a power purchase agreement for the solar power project SP Infra 1 Plant in Ninh Thuan Province.

 Torrential rains and thunderstorms are forecast to blanket the capital city of Hanoi and northern mountainous provinces for the next few days.

 Amid rising trade barriers, experts have said Vietnamese firms should improve their awareness of trade remedies and appeals processes.

Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport on July 15 arrested a Vietnamese man who had been on a flight from Angola and illegally transporting 12 rhino horns weighing over seven kilogrammes in total. 

 Vietnamese shares rose on both the northern and southern local exchanges on July 16 as more cash was poured into the banking sector.

When the VN Index exceeded the 1,200 point threshold, it was a surprise that the stock market later fell so sharply. 

 Torrential rains and thunderstorms are forecast to blanket the capital city of Hanoi and northern mountainous provinces for the next few days.

 The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C47) under the Ministry of Public Security has busted a large-scaled drug production ring in Ho Chi Minh City led by Didonna Quoc Anh Phillip, a French citizen.

 National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien received a delegation of Australian parliamentarians led by Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library Rowan Ramsay in Hanoi on July 16.

 Vietnam spent 790 million USD to import 2.43 million tonnes of fertiliser in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of nearly 22 percent in value and 1.2 percent in volume.

 The Vietnamese cashew sector is calling for an 800 million USD credit package from commercial banks to better serve its exports.

 Vietnam’s leather and footwear sector posted an export value of 9.45 billion USD in the first half of the year, an 8.4 percent increase year-on-year. 

 Early flash floods and heavy rains have caused serious damage in northeast mountainous areas. 

 The Ministry of Public Security on July 16 issued an international arrest warrant for Vu Hoang Oanh, born in 1957 in the northern city of Hai Phong, on the charge of illegal drug trafficking.