Events in Hanoi & HCMC on June 11-17 

 The owner of a noodle restaurant in Hanoi where Anthony Bourdain enjoyed a $6 meal with Barack Obama in 2016 says she is shocked over the chef's death.

 A group of American doctors are providing free surgery for children in the central and central highlands regions.

 The draft Law on Special Administrative and Economic Units will not regulate the lease land of up to 99 years at special economic zones, the National Assembly (NA) Office said in its announcement released on June 9. 

 An uncompleted electric fence has been unable to prevent wild elephants from looking for food at farms and gardens in Dong Nai Province.

 National carrier Vietnam Airlines have raised salaries for the firm’s pilots from June 1 with rises depending on different kinds of airplanes.

Peace has returned to the streets and traffic has resumed smoothly in Phan Thiet city in the morning of June 11 after authorised forces worked all night to disperse incited crowds around the headquarters of the provincial People’s Committee. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Since November 2017, visitors to the central coastal city of Da Nang have been able to easily access to all tourism-related information via a smartphone-based app called Danang Fantasticity, 

 North Korean state media has raised the possibility that the isolated country could "establish a new relationship" with the United States.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Carrying more passengers and cargo than permitted and lack of fire safety equipment including extinguishers were the most common violations committed by inter-provincial public transport buses, 

Many strong brands in the plastics industry have fallen into the hands of investors from Thailand, Japan and South Korea, which has raised concern about the future of the industry.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Researchers in the former imperial capital city of Hue have voiced their concerns over the new list of 27 prominent ’Indochinese colonial-style’ architectural buildings in the city.

 Representatives of MobiFone and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) have proposed the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to consider scratch card payment for digital content services.

Vietnamese-American Chanelle Van Nguyen of Hung Thinh HCM City triumphed in the women’s singles category of the VTF Pro Tour 3 – third Open Viettravel Cup 2018 which concluded in Da Nang on June 10.

 Statistics showed as many as 2,000 cases of child abuse recorded each year in Vietnam, including 1,500 molestations. It is said that more drastic measures should be taken to strictly deal with violations.

 The Vietnamese central city of Da Nang has become one of the most popular tourist destinations for people of the Republic of Korea this year, according to a Korean online ticket seller.

 The domestic market remained stable in May with total revenue from goods retail sales and services exceeding $15.6 billion, up 1.5 percent against the previous month and 10.4 percent year-on-year. 

 Ninety percent of assaults against medical workers occurred while they were treating patients and those actions should be prevented.

Thanh Ha litchi festival opens in Hai Duong, Hanoi, Dell to cooperate in building e-government, smart city, VTV intensifies cooperation with Cuban partners, Vietnamese traders lose $0.5 million to Russia trade centre blaze

 Experts from the Czech Republic have expressed his concerns about the recent militarisation of China in the East Sea while lauding Vietnam’s balanced and open external policy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wild elephants recently destroyed farm products belonging to residents in Thanh Son Commune in the southern province of Dong Nai, Ngo Van Son, 

 Museums feature rich educational values. However, museums in Hanoi are often deserted despite their convenient locations and abundant collections.

 The vote to approve the controversial draft Law on Special Administrative and Economic Units will be postponed until the sixth National Assembly session, to commence in October, instead of the on-going fifth.

 The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) in the UK and the Vietnamese Association in the country held a requiem in London on June 10 for fallen Vietnamese soldiers.

The draft Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units of Van Don, Bac Van Phong and Phu Quoc has been a hot topic not only at the on-going fifth session of the 14th National Assembly but also on the mass media during recent days.