Vietnam's General Department of Customs (GDC) has responded to a request from Japan’s Meiji Dairy Corporation relating to its powdered milk products sold in Vietnam.

 Vietnam always values and gives priority to fostering friendship and special solidarity with Laos, Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich told his Lao counterpart Chansamon Channhalat during their talks in Hanoi on June 20 following the welcome ceremony.

 Vietnam and Laos reviewed the border and border gate management at the 25th meeting of their border delegations in the central city of Da Nang on June 20.

Up to 2.25 million hectares of natural forests in the Central Highlands are not allowed to be open to commercial projects, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The VFF on June 18 announced the appointment of Jurgen Gede as the new technical director at a press conference in Hanoi.

Vietnam Mobile Day 2016, the largest of a series of IT events in 2016, will be held in Ha Noi on June 25 and Da Nang on July 2. 

 Nine military personnel on a CASA 212 turboprop plane are still missing since the aircraft went down last Thursday in the Gulf of Tonkin.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Basketball player Gorgui Dieng from the Minnesota Timberwolves team and Rena Bitter, U.S. consul general in HCMC, are seen with disadvantaged kids at Anh Sang School in HCMC’s District 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Gardeners in the northern province of Bac Giang are now in the mid-harvest season of litchi, the province’s specialty.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to Bloomberg, Vietnam accounted for approximately 19.1% of $227 billion of the total value of trade between the EU and the member countries of ASEAN in 2015, compared with 15.8% in 2014.

VietNamNet Bridge - Franchises are very popular in many countries but have not boomed until recently in Vietnam, with dozens of franchise brands. Notably, 7 Vietnamese brands have been franchised abroad.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Well-known fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuan introduced his 2016 Spring Summer Collection "The Superstar" in California, the USA last week. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Asia-American Gateway (AAG) submarine cable will undergo maintainence from 11pm on June 22 to 28. In these 6 days, the Internet in Vietnam will be affected.

 Some 28,000 volunteers and soldiers collected garbage along the country’s coastline on June 19 at the launch of the biggest ever national beach cleanup campaign.

 The US would continue working with Vietnam to lessen growingly adverse impacts of climate change, according to Todd Raymond Johnson, who is Forest and Climate Change advisor, the USAID Asia’s Office of Technical Services.

Switzerland's Novartis pledged to nearly triple its number of biosimilar drugs on the market by 2020, raising its bet that cheaper versions of blockbuster cancer and immune system medicines will snatch billions in rivals' profits. 

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is drafting a law to specifically support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

 Search and rescue work was enhanced on June 19 in searching for nine missing crewmembers onboard the CASA-212 military aircraft, according to the Ministry of Defence.

 The Ministry of Education and Training has asked universities and institutes for Doctorate degree certification for a strict review of their syllabuses.

 A Vietnamese woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 53 with the help of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) after undergoing fertility treatment for ten years, said director of IVF Center of the Post office Hospital Nguyen Thi Nha.

Agencies and ministries in Vietnam have wasted huge amounts of public money on excessive numbers of new cars.

 The Ministry of Health set up an inspection team to test food safety on products made by Coca Cola Vietnam, said inspectorate chief Dang Van Chinh on June 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Baking hot temperatures have raised the forest fire warning in six provinces to level 5 – the extremely dangerous level, 

Thai investments are expected to continue growing across Vietnam thanks to the country’s improved business climate and new trade bloc windfalls.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs confirmed that it would comply with any government decision to transfer the management of the vocational training system to the Ministry of Education and Training.