The Vinh Phuc People’s Committee submitted the fourth document asking the prime minister to refuse Hong Kong-backed TAL Group’s $350 million textile and garment dyeing project.   

 Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment has explained a decision to give investors 700 hectares of land in different locations in Hanoi in exchange for the construction of five roads with a build-transfer contract.

 At least 17 people have been killed, seven others injured and 11 remained missing in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains between June 23 and 25 in some northern mountainous provinces.

 Music group Maestoso will organize Cathedral Concert Series No.1 at St Joseph Cathedral in Hanoi on June 29, starting at 8 p.m., offering free concerts to the public and bringing a new and unique experience to Vietnamese musicians and audiences.

 Vietnamese exports have been subject to an increasing number of protectionist measures overseas, and most of the trade-defense lawsuits have been filed against Vietnamese iron and steel exports, officials said.

The central Phu Yen Province police have launched legal proceedings against a former treasurer of Phu Yen Forest Protection Department for alleged embezzlement.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in central Thanh Hoa Province busted an online football gambling ring worth nearly VND100 billion (US$4.3 million), arresting 11 people.

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 Mavin Group has become the first business in Vietnam to officially export fresh pork to a foreign market when the first batch was shipped to Myanmar, a success of not only the company but also the country’s animal farming sector.

Heavy downpours and flooding over recent days have caused serious human and property damage in the mountainous provinces in the north, where Ha Giang and Lai Chau are suffering the most.

 Statistics show that Vietnamese consumers use only about 1.9GB of cellular data on average each month, much lower than the regional countries of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore where the amounts come in between 4.7GB and 8.5GB.

 US news site includes two Vietnamese beaches on list for those planning their next summer vacation.

JICA has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to produce a draft decree guiding the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, participants at a dialogue heard on June 24.

Capital contribution and share purchases by foreign investors via mergers and acquisitions in HCMC amounted to some US$2.5 billion during the year up to late May.

Healthy domestic banks should focus on improving the transparency in their audited financial statements to attract foreign investors as some banks have recently succeeded with the strategy, experts suggested.

 The capitalisation of the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) has rocketed over 100 times to reach VND656.4 trillion (US$28.8 billion) after nine years of operation.

 Foreign invested enterprises play an important role in attracting and transferring technology, but the efficiency of the transfer work through FDI channels has not met expectations.

 Although the Government has ordered the removal and revision of unreasonable rules on food fortification with micronutrients, the Ministry of Health has been slow to act.

Vietnam and the EU have finished the legal review process for their free trade agreement (FTA) and reached agreement on the entire of the bilateral investment protection deal.

 Delegates at the national conference on anti-corruption on June 25 all agreed that no “restricted areas and exceptions” are accepted in fighting corruption.

Vietnam attracted more than $20 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first half of 2018.

 The Chem Communal House, dating back more than 2,000 years and one of the oldest of its kind in Vietnam, in Bac Tu Liem district of Hanoi was awarded a certificate as a special national relic site on June 25.

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