The Vietnam Professional Football Company (VPF) intendeds another fact-finding ‘study-trip’ to Europe as part of research to improve the Vietnamese football environment, despite the scant results of previous trips.

 EuroCham released the results of its Business Climate Index (BCI) for Quarter 2, 2016 on July 14, revealing positive sentiment among EuroCham members about Vietnam’s business environment, with an index of 77.

The state resolutely refused to save the failing VND8 trillion ($361.4 million) Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel JSC (TISCO)’s iron and steel plant-phase 2.

Two lots of antibiotics manufactured in India are being recalled for not meeting quality standards, according to documents recently issued by the Department of Drug Management under the Ministry of Health.

 Nung society has developed close connections in residence, lifestyle, economics, and culture. The Nung live harmoniously and united in a close-knit community.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five hundred households in Dong Ao and My Tho communes in the northern province of Ha Nam’s Thanh Thuy District claimed that they have been suffering serious environmental pollution for many years.

VietNamNet Bridge - The industrial production value growth in the first six months of the year slowed largely because of a decline in the mining industry.

 Nguyen Do, a 57-year-old man of central Quang Binh Province and the father of 14 children, said he wanted many children so he would not need to hire extra labour when he owned a fishing boat.

 HCM City’s cultural authorities’ efforts to promote book reading as a lifelong habit have been successful, drawing a higher number of visitors to recent book exhibitions and fairs in the past six months.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.

  Some banks have reported good business performance results in the first half of the year thanks to high credit growth.

Human trafficking is serious, complicated, and has been reported in all 63 provinces and cities across the country, said major-general Nguyen Phong Hoa, deputy director of the General Department of Police under the Ministry of Public Security.

 Only 17 officials have been found to have cheated in their declaration of assets according to the Government Inspectorate at the meeting reviewing 10 years of anti-corruption law implementation on July 12.

 Recent rains have eased droughts affecting biological diversity at two protected sites: the Lang Sen Wetland Reserve and Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta provinces of Long An and Dong Thap.

VietNamNet Bridge – The plots of land at prime locations in HCM City, dubbed “golden land”, are currently owned by several big corporations gained through merger and acquisition deals or land auctions.

 Vietnam’s Sanna Khanh Hoa FC opened the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Club Championship in style by claiming a comfortable 3-0 victory over Taipower FC yesterday in Bangkok, Thailand.

 Nguyen Thi That grabbed the yellow to make it a double at the National Women’s Cycling Open, for the An Giang Television Cup, yesterday.

 Hundreds of hectares of rice have been destroyed by mice, with as much as 90 per cent damaged in some fields, in Kien Giang Province’s Giang Thanh District.

 A performance combining contemporary dance with Vietnamese traditional and ethnic music, entitled Non (Conical Hat), will be held for the first time in Hanoi next week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite leading a difficult life, 61-year-old Thach Ua in Phong Phu Commune in the southern province of Tra Vinh has twice donated land for building a primary school and kindergarten in his hometown,