A number of local startups have done well in providing passenger and goods transport services.

 A fusion concert featuring traditional music and beatboxing by artist Ngo Hong Quang took place at the French Cultural Center in Hanoi on the last day of June to debut his album “Nam Nhi” (Macho).

 Forbes Vietnam on July 26 organised a ceremony to honour Vietnam’s top 50 listed companies in 2018, which account for 70.8 percent of total market capitalisation on the HCM and Hanoi stock exchanges.

 Sketches summarizing the undaunted spirit of people during the two resistance wars against the French colonialists and US troops are being displayed at the Fine Art Museum in central Da Nang city.

A group of five foreign tourists has received help from a cruise ship company on Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province after being abandoned by a travel agent at Tuan Chau International Port on Thursday.

Fearing a China-US trade war worth tens of billions of dollars, Chinese steel manufacturers are rushing to relocate parts of their production capacity to other countries, including Vietnam.

 Coming home after the war, many soldiers have made efforts to re-integrate into normal life and escape from poverty.

UNESCO attaches special importance to cooperation with Hanoi, especially in preserving and upholding the values of cultural heritages, said chief representative of UNESCO Office in Vietnam Michael Croft. 

 Vietnam secured 14 gold medals on the first day of the Ho Chi Minh City International Track & Field – Vietnam Open 2018.

 Algerian Minister of Tourism and Craft Industry Abdelkader Benmessaoud on July 26 received Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quoc Tru in Algiers, who came to discuss expanding cooperation between the two countries, particularly in tourism.

As of Wednesday morning, three people had died and nine others injured in a knife attack that occurred on Tuesday in Hung Hoi Commune in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu’s Vinh Loi District,

Four earthquakes, measuring from 2.7 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit Bac Tra My and Nam Tra My districts in the central province of Quang Nam on Thursday morning (July 26), but no damage or casualties were reported.

Vietnam’s leading dairy processor, Vinamilk, has spent nearly US$19.74 million acquiring a 51% stake in Lao–Jagro Development Xiengkhouang Co., Ltd, aiming to develop a complex of hi-tech beef-dairy farms.

 Vietnam Register will, early next month, propose the Ministry of Transport add red stamps to vehicles with low exhaust emission standards to distinguish them from others in a bid to control vehicle exhaust emissions.

The Xe Pian - Xe Namnoy hydropower dam incident will not affect Vietnam's Mekong Delta region, according to Associate Professor Le Anh Tuan, head of the Climate Change Research Institute under the Can Tho University.

 Vietnam looks set to attract an estimated US$2.61 billion in FDI this month, taking the total in the year to date to US$22.94 billion, up 4.6% year-on-year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency.

 The Vietnamese medical equipment market has grown 18% annually over the last five years, but more than 90% of medical equipment is imported from other countries.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked the transport ministry, the Dong Nai government and the relevant agencies to speed up the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai, reported the local media.

 The European Commission (EC) has decided to impose temporary safeguard duties in the form of an import quota on 28 categories of steel from 10 exporting countries, including Vietnam. However, not all Vietnamese exporters are subject to the duties.

 The HCMC government has approved the use of an international contest to choose the best consulting firm to handle the planning of the city’s underground space.