VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will continue to deploy online check-in services for passengers departing from Sydney and Melbourne airports in Australia as of August 1.

VOV.VN - The nation’s consumer price index (CPI) during the initial seven months of the year edged up 2.54% on-year, while core inflation rose by 1.44%, as announced by the General Statistics Office (GSO) on July 29.

VOV.VN - The World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam have signed an agreement that will allow a US$2.5 million grant from the Japan Social Development Fund to finance a project that will strengthen the delivery of legal aid services to vulnerable groups in the northern part of Vietnam.

Vietjet on July 25 jubilantly commenced operation of Ho Chi Minh City – Busan service with the maiden flight warmly welcomed with water cannon at Gimhae International Airport.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to open 22 more pedestrian streets in its downtown districts to better accommodate residents and tourists.

Da Nang is striving to become a high-quality tourism and service centre and a destination for innovation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia by 2030, according to a recently-built project on orientation for tourism development in the central city by 2030, with a vision to 2045.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An has held a memorial and re-burial services at Vinh Hung - Tan Hung martyrs cemetery in Vinh Hung district for the remains of 42 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the battlefields in Cambodia.

VOV.VN - The Korea Customs Service (KCS) announced on July 15 it will jointly run an Electronic Origin Data Exchange System (EODES) to allow certificates of origin to be processed through electronic platforms with Vietnam and India from next year.

Metfone, the Cambodia-based affiliate of the military-run telecom group Viettel, and Angkok Dairy Products Co.Ltd (Angkormilk), two Vietnamese-invested firms, on July 14 signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop telecommunications services and e- payments in Cambodia.

To deal with fuel prices, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) just proposed raising air service prices on domestic routes to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).