The General Department of Customs reports that Vietnam has spent US$4.1 billion in the first seven months on importing raw materials and animal feed for domestic livestock industry.

Building steel output in July reached 613,000 tonnes, posting 51.5% increase over the same period last year and marking the record high in the past 10 years, said the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA).

Different aspects of the traditional Co Tu ethnic group's culture in central Quang Nam Province will be presented on the outskirts of Hanoi between August 19 and 23.

The first two-deck high speedboat Green-lines DP was piloted on the Sai Gon River on August 16 to replace the old hydrofoils that had been used between HCM City and the southern coastal city of Vung Tau.

Top Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam defeated Youssef Hossam of Egypt in the second match of the qualifying round of the US$10,000 Egypt 27 Futures on August 16.

A movie on one of Vietnam's most notorious female gangsters won the Best Feature Southeast Asia Panorama award during the Festival of Globe Awards 2015 held in California, the US, from August 7 to 16.

Hue authorities made changes to a defunct policy that aimed to protect and restore Hue-style garden houses.

Cars with various engine displacement values are expected to enjoy a rebate in the special consumption tax in Vietnam as of July 1, 2016, according to a revised draft on Tax Law issued by the Ministry of Finance recently.

Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee have agreed to allow the Fisheries Surveillance and Resources Department to act as an initial investigative body to more efficiently solve trade, environment and international relations problems that arise in the seas.

With most of the high-priority measures in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) blueprint already adopted, policymakers and businesses need to work closely on the remaining challenges to achieve benefits of full economic integration beyond 2015, a new report recommends.