VietNamNet Bridge - Irrigation works and hydropower reservoirs are at risk of damage as the storm season has begun.

 Easing of restrictions on local people entering casinos a boon for local hospitality sector, according to representative from JLL Hotels and Hospitality Group.

Pham Sy Liem, former Deputy Minister of Construction, speaks to the Kinh te & Do thi about the need for ground level in building residential areas in Ha Noi’s outlying districts

Professor Vu Trong Hong, Chairman of the Viet Nam Irrigation Association, speaks to the newspaper Nong Thon Ngay Nay about the dangerous impact of the proposal to build four super small hydro power plants

 Regional trade pacts and business climate improvements have made Vietnam become a manufacturing hub for ASEAN investors and firms.

Over one million drivers are finding themselves stuck between the hammer and the anvil as traffic police these days intensify checks and punish those failing to show original vehicle ownership certificates.

 One of the fiercest rivalries in the world of chess today has resumed with the announcement by Magnus Carlsen that he will compete at Chess World Cup 2017 set for September 1-25 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

 Ha Noi Stock Exchange has allowed Mai Linh Northern Joint Stock Company to register 48.6 million shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) under stock code MLN.

 Book Street in HCM City recorded sales of VNĐ19.07 billion (US$840,000) for the first six months, an increase of 27 per cent compared to the same period last year, the Street Book Co Ltd said on Monday.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has called for clarification after waste dumping violations reportedly occured at a coal-powered power plant into the sea off the coast of Binh Thuan.

 Four houses were partially damaged and a person slightly injured following a series of blasts emitted by an aircraft flying across Ninh Thuan Province’s Phan Rang City yesterday morning.

 Vietnam’s achievements at int’l chemistry, maths, physics olympiads

 National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced the cancellation of 11 flights that connect Phu Bai Airport in central Thua Thien-Hue province with Hanoi and HCM City due to typhoon Sonca.

 The National Assembly (NA) Offices of Vietnam and Laos are holding their ninth joint conference in the central city of Da Nang from July 24-28 to share experience in assisting the two legislatures.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue held talks with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources Barnaby Joyce on July 25.

 All the land in the Mieu Mon airfield, the focus of a land dispute in Hanoi a few months ago, is defence land and has been used for defence purposes by military units, the Hanoi inspectorate said on July 24.

 By 3pm on July 25, tropical storm Sonca, the fourth developed in the East Sea and third to hit Vietnam this year, made landfall in the northern areas of the central provinces of Quang Tri and weakened into a tropical low pressure.

 Malaysia police has reported the death of a Vietnamese woman named Vo Thi Duyen on July 21, said the Vietnam Embassy in the country.

 Vietnamese firms have won deals to supply 175,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines at a tender on July 25, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). 

 Vietnam strongly protests inhuman treatment as well as the use of force or threat to use force against Vietnamese fishermen, said the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department.