1. Vietnam will aim to raise its gross domestic product by 8.3% to 8.5% for this year.

2. Singapore's non-oil domestic exports rose 13.0% in June from the same month a year earlier.

3. Trump said that the US would impose a 19% tariff on goods from Indonesia and plans to impose duties on pharmaceuticals imported into the country, by the end of the month.

4. Britain set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country's worst ever data breaches.

5. US Education Department announced a foreign funding investigation at the University of Michigan. It allegedly found "inaccurate and incomplete disclosures" in a review of the university's foreign reports.

6. Microsoft and a US national laboratory said they are partnering to examine how AI could be used to speed up the process of compiling the documents needed to secure permits for new nuclear power plants.