The 14th National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) wrapped up its 12th session in Hanoi, on July 12, under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has proposed the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) remove unreasonable business conditions relating to a decree on rice exports.

 The Ministry of Transport will seek the government's permission to continue selling the stakes of state-owned Airports Corporation of Vietnam—the country’s largest airport operator— to strategic investors.

JX Nippon Oil & Energy is receiving close to $15 million in the first year after acquiring Petrolimex shares. 

The HCMC Department of Taxation officially announced a series of taxes applicable to online merchants, including licence tax, value added tax, personal income tax, excise tax, and environmental protection tax (if any).

 Problems during the construction of the Vietnam's longest sea bridge slated to open to traffic in August this year have been detected.

 A trafficker in Quang Nam Province has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for selling three women to China.

 Three people have been killed and two others seriously injured when a motorbike collided with two cars on Chuong Duong Bridge in Hanoi.

 Many pavements in HCM City centre have again been adopted by business, particularly restaurants and bars.

 A family of four have been found dead in their house in Hanoi's Bac Tu Liem District after it was gutted by fire early Thursday morning.

 Quadria Capital, Asia’s leading private healthcare investor, has successfully completed its investment in the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital (FV Hospital) in HCM City.

 State employees nationwide will get three days off on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of National Day (September 2) this year.

 Chairman of HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE)’s Board of Directors Tran Van Dung was appointed as the new chairman of the State Securities Commission of Viet Nam (SSC) on Wednesday.

 Live 5G radio demo-system with Massive MIMO achieve 5G download speed (5.7Gbps) and ultra low latency was witnessed by participants at the first-ever demonstration of 5G in Viet Nam.

Vietnam is expected to export 320,000 tonnes of cashew worth US$3.3 billion this year, which represents a fall of 9.2 per cent in volume terms due to a sharp fall in harvests due to unfavourable weather.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue early this week approved a plan to arrange enterprises under the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) by 2020.

The Vietnamese consumer finance market has tremendous potential for development but its rapid growth has raised controversy over how it disadvantages and hurts people unfamiliar with it, experts noted on Wednesday.

A flood prevention project on HCM City’s Nguyen Huu Canh Street, which is frequently flooded by heavy rains and rising tides, will upgrade the drainage systems and install a pump station.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cage fishing farmers on the Bo River are distraught over an unexplained mass fish death that has caused great economic losses.

The Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival of the northern city of Hai Phong will lose national intangible heritage status if its organising process does not fulfill its safety commitments,