PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) will approve the plan of listing shares on HCM City Stock Exchange at the first shareholders’ meeting scheduled on June 26.

 After losing more than VND125 billion (US$5.5 million) in Vinasun, Singaporean investment fund Government of Singapore (GIC) announced a full divestment from Vietnam Sun Corporation (VNS).

 VietNamNet Bridge – It’s easy to recognise a vendor selling banh da ke (millet rice cracker).

The HCMC Education & Training Department has sent a dispatch to schools, asking them to commend the courage of five ‘street knights’ who were stabbed to death when trying to arrest armed thieves. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Le Hong Viet, technology director of FPT, the Vietnamese largest information technology frim, said AI (artificial intelligence) has had extremely big impact on the economy and society. 

Landslides are occurring in many localities in Mekong River Delta, though the rainy season has just begun. Ten serious landslide cases have occurred in Ca Mau, Hau Giang and Can Tho in the last two weeks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Everyone has their own set of qualities to look for in an ideal partner, but what if the ability to classify garbage is the only trait one is seeking?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cultural activities and portraits of people from all over the world are on display at an international photo exhibition in Hanoi.

 The Solar Experience Space model, a collaboration of SolarBK and HCM City Science Technology University, will compete in the final of the Smarter Energy Award 2018 – an annual event held in Munich, Germany on June 20-22.

 As a tropical low-pressure system is continuing to develop, agencies must closely monitor the situation so that captains and owners of vessels receive timely notification of its progress in order to avoid dangerous areas.

 Dozens of embassies and international organisations marked the World Environment Day (June 5) by signing a Code of Conduct on Combating Plastic Pollution.

More milk tea shops have arisen in HCM City and Hanoi, and analysts say there is even room for more. With over 20 shops near each other, Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in District 1 in HCM City is known informally as the ‘milk tea street’. 

 Vietnamese first ranked racer Nguyen Thi That overtook the competition on the track, becoming the winner of the first stage of 2018’s one-day woman’s cycle race Dwars door de Westhoek, held and concluded in Belgium on Sunday (June 3).

 Top Vietnamese gymnast Le Thanh Tung won gold at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup, held in Koper, Slovania from May 31 to June 3.

 Viet Nam ready for Asian volleyball champs, Việt Nam Coal and Mineral beat Phong Phú Hà Nam, Cantho Catfish beat HCM City Wings in VBA preseason

 In Marianne Smolska’s new series entitled Phu Du (Ephemeral), delicate monochrome motifs of skulls, wilted flowers, brambles, roots and chrysalises intertwine with embroidery on handmade Lao and Vietnamese paper.

 Italian opera singers will perform with the Vietnamese Sun Symphony tonight at the Hanoi Opera House.

 A plane on the way from Hanoi to Da Lat City had to make an emergency landing at Da Nang International Airport as a male passenger fainted at 10,000m in the air.

 HCM City’s Party Committee’s Standing Board yesterday proposed disciplining Tat Thanh Cang, Politburo member and deputy secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, for violations related to the transfer of Phuoc Kien residential area.

 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera extolled Vietnam’s impressive economic accomplishments in recent years while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Nguyen Ngoc Son in Santiago on June 4.

 The High-level People’s Court in Hanoi on June 4 upheld the sentences for four defendants found guilty of “trying to overthrow the people’s administration” at trial two months ago.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Greek Ambassador to Vietnam Ioannis E. Raptakis have shared the view that Vietnam and Greece should strengthen coordination in order to increase their two-way trade rapidly. 

Vietnam always supports and creates favorable conditions for defence ministries of Vietnam and the RoK to foster their affiliation, contributing to diversifying and deepening the strategic partnership between the two countries.

 The central city’s investment promotion agency (IPA) has asked a group of investors for a detailed plan of their proposals to develop an artificial island resort project off the coast of Da Nang.

 The central province of Quang Binh has approved a list of 48 projects calling for investment for the 2018-2020 period, with an expected amount of up to over 50 trillion VND (2.2 billion USD).