Management agencies are facing challenges in their efforts to collect debts from Google and Facebook, admitting that they have failed to control businesses through social networks, which attract tens of millions of people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Digital technology plays an important role and has a significant impact on Vietnamese enterprises’ activities.  

 The Prime Minister has issued a decision regulating the shipment of national treasures abroad for exhibition, research or conservation purposes on a temporary basis.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The obesity rate among Vietnamese school-aged children has increased, particularly in big cities like Ha Noi, HCM City, Da Nang and Hai Phong.

 Credit ratings agency Moody's has responded positively to the State Bank of Vietnam's Circular 06/2016/TT-NHNN on asset-liability management and real estate loans.

 The Natural Resources and Environment Department in central province of Ha Tinh has asked two companies to install automatic monitoring equipment for testing emissions and the dust of emission discharge systems.

 Around 100 competitors will compete in a ramen (a Japanese noodle soup dish) speed eating competition – the first ever of its kind – at Koi Sushi restaurant in the central city’s Ngu Hanh Son district on Saturday.

 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a workshop in Hanoi on June 9 to introduce the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF), following similar events in Myanmar and Laos.

 President Tran Dai Quang had separate meetings with newly-accredited ambassadors from India, the Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Federated States of Micronesia, Latvia and Guinea-Bissau.

 Three Vietnamese athletes have qualified to compete in the 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics slated for Poland in July.

 Environment workers of Hanoi City completed the collection of dead fish in Hoang Cau Lake early this morning on instructions from Nguyen Duc Chung, chairman of the People’s Committee.

South Korea intends to lend US$1.5 billion ODA to Vietnam in 2016-2020, $0.9 billion of which will be given to finance cooperation and the rest to other priority areas.

 Vietnam cruised to an overwhelming victory at the 17th ASEAN + Age Group Chess Championships 2016 in Pattaya, Thailand on June 6, racking up a total of 29 individual gold medals after eight days of competition. 

 The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has claimed that the mass fish deaths that happened in the central region have not affected the supply or quality of the country's seafood exports.

 Rescuers have located the body of Aiden Webb, a British tourist who went missing for a week in Sapa.

 Truong Thi Dieu Ngoc from the central coastal city of Da Nang won the Miss Ao dai Vietnam contest – The Way to Miss World Crown beauty contest which ended in Ho Chi Minh City on June 7.

 CIRPACK, a French editor of Internet Protocol (IP) communications software, is developing its business activities in Vietnam via the new arrival of an APAC Business Development Manager based in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four months after opening for traffic, many super-skinny houses have appeared along Nhat Tan - Xuan La – Buoi Road in Hanoi, worth more than VND6,000 billion ($300 million).

 VietNamNet Bridge - This is the figure given by a representative of YouTube Vietnam at an event in HCM City on June 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge - By the end of June, if the investor of the giant Nhon Hoi petrochemical project cannot finalize the investment plan, the authorities of Binh Dinh province will invite other investors or change the project.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forbes magazine has published the list of 100 most powerful women in the world, including a Vietnamese woman.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Faced with a flood of inexpensive US chicken imports, Vietnamese farmers are adopting new strategies to stay economically alive in a more global market, especially after the Trans-Pacific Partnership takes effect.

 Daily tooth brushing and annual dentist visits may reduce the risk of some head and neck cancers by a small margin, according to a recent, large study.

Under the plan on debt payment and loans in 2016, the Government plans to borrow $20 billion to pay debts and cover its expenses, including $15 billion from the Social Insurance Fund and the State Capital Investment Corporation.

 Two California-based musicians are suing British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for $20 million over his hit song "Photograph," which they claim bears a similar structure to one of their songs,