The transport minister has requested the railway management board to work closely with contractors to put Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway in trial operation in August, one month earlier than expected.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of ceramic objects were unearthed at an excavation site in the central province of Binh Dinh, scientists confirmed at a workshop held in the province on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is urgently completing preparations works and planning to organize a national teleconference of the Government on prevention of child violence and abuse. 

 Flash floods and landslides triggered by downpours in the past days had left 23 dead and 10 missing in the northern mountainous provinces, mainly in Lai Chau and Ha Giang, by 7:00 on June 28.

 Phu Quoc Island off Kien Giang Province in December will host the third edition of Epizode, which is Vietnam's biggest underground dance music festival.

 Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant-General Le Quy Vuong has said that since 2016 police have prosecuted 589 graft cases with more than 1,400 people involved.

Households in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have complained that explosions at a nearby hydropower plant construction site may be causing damage to their homes.

Synescape live audiovisual performance merging digital with analogue components will take place at Tinh Dau art space in Hanoi this Saturday.

Airbus on June 27 clinched two agreements with the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, wherein the European firm will provide funding of US$2.5 million for aviation training at USTH between 2018 and 2023.

 Claims that a chatbot can diagnose medical conditions as accurately as a GP have sparked a row between the software's creators and UK doctors.

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged European leaders to work together on finding solutions to irregular migration.

Da Nang, with its jam-packed summer events program, has emerged as the top destination among Vietnamese traveling during the summer break, according to new data published on June 26 by Agoda.

 On June 28, as soon as he returned from Brussels, Minister of Trade and Industry Tran Tuan Anh sent a dispatch to order the immediate stopping the draft Decree that supermarkets must be open all day.

 An art programme will open at Hue Imperial Citadel every evening from July 1 to delight visitors with ‘Nha Nhac’ (Hue royal court music).

 VietNamNet Bridge – A court in northern Ninh Binh Province on Wednesday sentenced an HIV-infected paedophile to two-and-half years in prison for sexually assaulting a neighbour.

 High school students across the nation finished their 2018 graduation exam on June 27, with over 99% of the registered candidates sitting their exam, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

 Vietnam is expected to face with continuous supply surplus before reaching equilibrium, according to Biinform’s Vietnam Cement Market Report 2018.

 Despite being a major seafood producer, Vietnam has bought in many kinds of seafood from foreign markets to process for export and domestic consumption in recent years.

Despite limited funds and many challenges, Vietnam has included conservation and climate change mitigation efforts in the country’s socio-economic development plan as it faces pollution, rising sea levels

 The Trung Nguyen drama continues, as the group accuses its own subsidiary of violating intellectual property rights by producing its G7 brand instant coffee, requesting authorities to stop the exports of affected products.

 The latest report from the Pew Research Centre in the US shows that smartphone usage in many countries has increased significantly, including Viet Nam.

 The protective forest in Quang Ninh Province has been destroyed for a long time while local authorities have claimed they are unaware of the situation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Residents in the central city of Da Nang are being treated to a series of concerts by a quartet from the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

 The rate of girls facing sexual harassment on buses in Vietnam has considerably decreased over the past four years.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kien Giang Province held a joint conference about plastic waste on June 27 with World Wide Fund for Nature-Vietnam.