China's statement to withdraw from the UNCLOS in response to the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration is not entirely a new idea, but if this scenario actually happens, it will have two major impacts on regional and international order.

  Events in Vietnam's major cities from July 1-15. Daily updated

  Mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) is set to boom in Vietnam in the upcoming years and companies need to forge plans to cash in on the growing popularity of this retail channel.

 Thailand's largest energy company PTT Public Company Limited has postponed plans to build the $20 billion Victory Nhon Hoi refinery and petrochemical complex in Binh Dinh, due to the uncertainty of the global oil market.

  Local residents are protesting Chu Lai Soda Processing Joint Stock Company’s relapse into discharging untreated wastewater into the river, in spite of the local authorities’ ban.

  Airport Corporation of Vietnam has just requested permission from the Ministry of Transport to raise service fees at domestic airports.

 Australia has suspended the export of cattle to Vietnam as a Vietnamese company violated the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS), affecting local livestock farming as well as the prestige of Vietnam in general.

 Vietnam vehemently condemns a suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on June 28, Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh said on June 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Unsightly and dilapidated temporary houses for construction workers that have long since been abandoned are affecting the landscape in some parts of the city.

 The General Department of Environment looks set to inspect the paper mill of Lee&Man Vietnam Paper Co Ltd in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang from July 1.

 Deputies of the HCMC People’s Council on June 28 elected Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam chairwoman of the council and Nguyen Thanh Phong chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee for the 2016-2021 term.

 An arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the East Sea will deliver its decision on July 12, it said in a statement on June 29.

 A new Disney entertainment and information portal was introduced to the public by Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia Pte. Limited and Mobifone Telecommunications Corporation yesterday.

 887, 396 candidates nationwide conduct procedures to prepare for the 2016 National High School Examination.

 Vietnam’s education reform efforts got a boost today with a World Bank-funded Enhancing Teacher Education Program, which supports the delivery of continuous professional development to teachers and principals.

 The Vietnam Azalea Fund (VAF), managed by Mekong Capital, will divest nearly half of its stake in the Ho Chi Minh City-headquartered Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company (PNJ) via negotiations, the fund manager announced on June 29.

 As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hanoi over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced yesterday.

A strengthened co-operative mechanism between the Vietnam Fatherland Front and other State anti-corruption agencies is needed to better oversee and detect corruption, participants said at a conference to review results of Anti-Corruption Law 2005.

 Vietnam has 23 athletes in 10 sports who have qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5-21, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

A funeral was held in Hanoi in the morning of June 30 for nine crewmembers of the CASA-212 aircraft who died in a search and rescue mission.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fine arts students and art lovers in the central city of Da Nang are familiar with the work of British graffiti artist Knee Jerk (his preferred alias).

 VietNamNet Bridge – A street photography exhibition titled Like a Life will be held by AIA’s Ha Noi office (AIA Viet Nam Insurance Company) from June 29 to July 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 4,000 marathoners and their family members are eligible to run in the annual Da Nang International Marathon 2016, to be held on August 6th.

VietNamNet Bridge - While investors have become impatient about the state capital disinvestment process, the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) and governing bodies have remained quiet.

 Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.