Lawmakers will vote to pass the draft revised Law on National Defence and draft Law on Vietnam Coast Guard at the ongoing fifth session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on June 8 morning.

 The People's Procuracy of Cai Nuoc District, Ca Mau Province, announced on June 6 that it would issue a public apology to a local man who was wrongly imprisoned for over a year.

 All substandard three and four-wheel vehicles operating on Hanoi streets will be confiscated from July 1 this year, according to the municipal Department of Transport.

 The National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology announced on June 7 that they successfully delivered a premature baby born at 26 weeks that weighed only 500 grams.

 A 31-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing two Vietnamese tourists to death during an apparent burglary at a Las Vegas hotel, police in the US said.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said the government will listen to ideas from the public and experts and may propose to reduce the land lease time limit stated in the draft law on special administrative-economic units.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese athlete Vu Thi Ngoc Ha won a gold medal in the triple jump yesterday at the 2018 Asian Indoor Atheletics Championship, being held in Gifu City of Japan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singers are doing cover versions of popular songs and offering them for free on YouTube.

Hai Duong to host litchi festival this weekend, Vietnam’s 50 best-performing listed firms account for 70% of market cap, Major export earners report steady growth, Kien Giang stops licensing land reclamation projects

VietNamNet Bridge - Finance technology solutions are growing rapidly in Asia Pacific. In Vietnam, all conditions are favorable to pave the way for the fintech market to boom.

Since 1994, when Vietnam joined the Convention on Biological Diversity, the government has been making investments in human and financial resources to implement its commitments and protect the country’s biodiversity.

At Saigon Autotech & Accessories 2018, an automobile and motorbike support industry exhibition, CITY 18, an electric car drew visitors’ attention as it was a Vietnamese product made by Tran Minh Tam from HCMC.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s universities have been advised to cooperate with foreign universities in tertiary education to improve training quality. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many people sneered when he opened his first co-working space on Trang Thi Street in Hanoi. Few believed the concept, new and “odd” at that time, could succeed.

Gardeners in Luc Ngan district, northern Bac Giang province, are enjoying early harvest of lychees with over 90,000 tonnes of fruits, up 35,000 tonnes over the same period last.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Management Board of the Nam Kar Natural Conservation Centre in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has decided to take disciplinary action against four forest rangers.

Growth in Vietnam remains robust but high capacity-use rates may limit further expansion, according to the World Bank’s “Global Economic Prospects: East Asia and Pacific - The Turning of the Tide?” report released on June 5. 

 Many students visit the Temple of Literature in Hanoi to seek luck for their high school entrance exam. 

 A cyclo driver in the imperial city of Hue has just been fined for overcharging two American visitors to the city.

 A passenger was fined VND7.5m ($331) on June 7 for throwing a mobile phone and injuring a Vietjet Air member of staff after getting angry over a missed flight.

Singapore-based F&N Dairy Investment has been repeatedly registering to buy over 14 million shares. This is the 15th time the investor has professed to its ambition of raising ownership in Vinamilk.

 Foreign investors may have to wait for a long time to buy MobiFone shares, especially after the authorities have published the conclusions of the AVG inspection.  

 The Tourism Department of HCMC and Cuba’s Tourism Ministry, along with travel businesses of both sides have inked cooperation deals aiming to create a legal foundation for organising tours to the Caribbean nation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s administrative reforms are delivering results and there will be more of the same, city authorities have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese universities are among the top 1,000 universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.