Singaporean developer Low Keng Huat Limited has reportedly sold a four-star hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City to an undisclosed investor for US$49 million.

The apartment markets in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City showed positive signs in the second quarter, property consultancy company Savills Vietnam has said.

Vietnam's consumer giant Masan Group Corporation is now shifting its focus to the meat sector that reportedly made up 46% of its revenue in 2015.

US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius announced on July 6 that the US government has provided an additional US$500,000 in emergency assistance to help Vietnamese who have been affected by the worst drought and saltwater intrusion in decades.

State-owned Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has confirmed that complex preparatory work will delay the construction of the country's US$15.8 billion airport near Ho Chi Minh City.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has started to provide free medicines to 330 children and 120 adults in a lead recycling village in northern Vietnam to treat lead poisoning.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Bich has come to terms with the fact that she may never earn as much as her husband.

The Taiwanese company has pledged a compensation fund of US$500 million for the toxic spill disaster in four provinces.

Three university students from Hanoi were drowned when crossing a flooded stream on July 2, during a charity trip to a mountainous area in the nearby Quang Ninh Province.

Vietnamese cement producers have struggled to boost exports because of increasing competition from Asian rivals, which are also faced with oversupply just like Vietnam.