Vietnam produced 34.3 billion USD worth of cellphones and components for export in 2016, 99.8 percent of which, or 34.2 billion USD, made by FDI enterprises.

 Lai Gia Thanh brought home one gold and two silver medals at the ongoing IWF Junior World Championships in Japan.

 Located about 30 km from Hanoi, Chang Son village in Thach That district preserves several time-honoured crafts, such as carpentry, sculpture and varnishing. In particular, it is a cradle of paper fan making.

 Administration of public lands should be tightened to increase Ho Chi Minh City’s revenues, a city People’s Council meeting heard recently.

 Vietnam’s cashew processing sector aims to export 360,000 tonnes of cashews for 3.3 billion USD in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 2.8 percent in volume, according to the Vietnam Cashew Association.

 Vietnam’s plant protection product market is valued at 1 billion USD a year, but the country is still heavily dependent on imports.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts believe that the stock market is still the most effective investment channel this year, though the yield will be lower than in the golden days in the past.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only 30 three-wheeled vehicles have been licenced to operate in Ha Noi, whereas up to 99 per cent of the remaining three-wheelers in the city are illegal, 

VietNamNet Bridge - The weaker water flow towards the downstream Mekong River has caused drought in  The Mekong Delta, affecting the livelihood of millions of people in the area.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news about a university lecturer who had to sell his land to pay for his child’s overseas study has stirred up the public. 

With some 175 million cubic metres of water stored in an elevated position, Nui Coc Lake’s major dam in the northern province of Thai Nguyen could devastate downstream areas if it broke, 

A math problem-solving application created by a Vietnamese engineer has been downloaded by thousands of smartphone users recently.

Breeding shrimp together with other aquatic products is preventing disease without using chemicals and providing sustainable results for farmers in the central coastal province of Phu Yen.

 The Vietnamese community in India and Nepal convened its first congress at the Vietnamese Embassy in India on June 18 to discuss establishing a General Association of Vietnamese in the two southern Asian nations.

A report on 2017 Business Conditions shows that 234 business sectors require new legal prerequisites. There currently are around 300 legal documents laying out business sector prerequisites.

Vietnam-based internet company VNG Corporation earned $133 million and $23.9million in after-tax profit last year, according to its 2016 financial report.

 Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu had separate meetings with two foreign firms, UPC Ranewables and Kimin Power, on feasibility study reports on wind power projects to be developed by the firms.

 President Tran Dai Quang received outgoing Israeli Ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar in Hanoi on June 19, congratulating the diplomat on a successful tenure in Vietnam during which bilateral ties have recorded important strides.

 Thailand, Indonesia become Vietnam's top automobile suppliers

Founded in 1926 in Tay Ninh province, the Caodaism worships the Divine Eye, known as the eye of heaven and a symbol of its supreme being. It is now the third largest religion in Vietnam.

 BRG Group said it will join hands with Hilton Worldwide Group to run 11 Hilton hotel projects in Vietnam. 

 National Assembly deputies passed the revised Law on Technology Transfer, Law on Irrigation, and the revised Law on Tourism during a session in Hanoi on June 19. 

 A Khong (Zero) Dong shop that offers donated clothing and household appliances, most of them new and some of them secondhand, is seeing a brisk business in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. 

The Medical Examination and Treatment Management Department has called on centrally-run hospitals and provincial health departments to organise training courses on dengue fever diagnosis and treatment at both private and public health centres. 

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai has assured President of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Mujahidul Islam Selim that Vietnam always treasure friendship with the CPB.