Vietnam won a silver medal at the Southeast Asian U19 Women’s Volleyball Championship which ended in Thailand on July 20.

 A sending-off ceremony was organised in Hanoi to see the Vietnam delegation to Brazil for this Summer’s Olympic Games.

VietNamNet Bridge - When building factories, investors often neglect applying environment protection solutions and  waste water treatment systems. As a result, rivers become polluted. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese stock market has been hot these days with the VN Index breaking new records. However, it is still far below other frontier markets in the region.

From a little-known region, the southern part of Phu Quoc is becoming a "hot spot" for investment. With wonderful beauty, this place is forecasted to be the centre of Phu Quoc, an international resort island, in the near future.

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest labor bulletin shows that about 200,000 university graduates remained jobless, while businesses complain they cannot find enough workers to prepare for economic recovery. 

VietNamNet Bridge – A traffic police officer in Hanoi has been suspended from work for investigation after a short video clip was posted on the Internet, in which he was kicking a motorbike running back up the street.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A man in Thanh Hoa province who was fishing recently caught an anabas from his net and held the fish in his mouth. The fish struggled and slipped down his throat.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Central Group Vietnam has confirmed that Central Group is 100% owned by a Thai family and that other information about the owner of Big C Vietnam was fabricated.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Hanoi Transport Corporation in July will complete the installation of devices to provide free Wi-Fi services on 200 buses. In the future all buses in Hanoi will have free Internet services.

The people in Ky Long ward in Ky Anh town of Ha Tinh province have unexpectedly found an additional hundreds of tons of waste originating from Taiwanese Formosa group’s steel plant at a private farm about 3 km from the plant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The radio-television station of Phu Loc District in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has reported a jam caused by Chinese radio waves on the 98MHz frequency band.

The Guangxi Government wishes to intensify cooperation with Vietnamese ministries and localities through education in order to nurture the China-Vietnam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

 The Ministry of Education and Training reviewed the 2015-2016 academic year and launched tasks for pre-school education in 2016-2017 at a conference in Hanoi on July 20.

 The National Salary Council failed to decide on a regional minimum wage hike in 2017 at a meeting in the northern port city of Hai Phong on July 20.

 The first session of the 14th National Assembly opened in Hanoi on July 20 with the ceremony broadcast live on the national television and radio channels.

 Repairs to the 25R/07L runway at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City were completed and it was put into operation at 17:30 on July 20, according to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).

 Vietnam attaches importance to developing the fruitful traditional relationship with Denmark – Vietnam’s important partner in Northern Europe, President Tran Dai Quang affirmed.

Instead of speeding up the equitisation process, the Ministry of Planning and Investment has stirred up controversy with proposal to set up another unit to supervise and manage state capital and assets in state-owned corporations.

 Vietnam has recorded an increasing number of young people suffering from cardiovascular diseases, which kill 200,000 people per year, heard a workshop in Hanoi on July 20.