The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Thursday it is opening a preliminary investigation into 25,000 Tesla Motors Model S cars after a driver of one of the vehicles was killed using the Autopilot mode. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Apple SIM is considered a technological breakthrough, but it could be an obstacle to mobile network operators’ business.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of huge projects developed by economic groups belonging to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) have reported losses worth trillions of dong of the state’s money. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi needs investment to apply new comprehensive measures to sort waste at source, organize waste collection, and treat waste with modern technologies.

 Duo Do Tuan Duc and Pham Nhu Thao advanced to the second round of the Yonex Canada Open, the badminton tournament which began in Calgary City on June 29.

 Hoang Quy Phuoc and Tran Duy Khoi pocketed two silvers at an open swimming tournament in Budapest, Hungary, on June 29.

A photo by photographer Huynh Nam Dong - depicting a young father cuddling his premature newborn on his chest, giving him skin-to-skin contact - won first prize in the Vietnamese Dads photo contest.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged ministries and sectors to ensure the progress of building legal documents as well as their quality.

 Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung has called for efforts to deal with incomplete documents guiding the implementation of laws and ordinances with heed paid to ensuring their quality and feasibility.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong praised Victoria Kwakwa’s attainments during her seven-year position as the World Bank’s Country Director for Vietnam at a farewell reception in Hanoi on June 30.

Investment for HCM City’s hospitals approved, Poster, photo contest on environmental protection launched, Highest temperature nationwide reduces slightly, 32 pharmaceutical companies fined for violating regulations

 The local car manufacturing industry is trying to find a suitable car model which can exploit local production standards and localisation rate while being competitive enough of surviving coming international trade agreements.

My native place has never lacked sunshine. You could even say that it has had more of it than needed.So it happens that Binh Thuan Province’s Tuy Phong District has extended dry periods and the highest speed of desertification. 

Analysts say they don’t believe the Ministry of Education and Training can prohibit private teaching unless the wage policy is adjusted and teachers’ salaries are high enough to cover their basic needs.

VietNamNet Bridge - The managers of state-owned economic groups and general corporations are reported to receive VND0.5 billion a year. But their real incomes are much higher.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi will set up an inter-sector team to inspect the business operations and the safety of boats and floating houses on West Lake by next month, Vu Van Vien, the city’s Transport Department director said.

Vietnam’s 2016 growth will be moderate, at around 6 per cent, reflecting the adverse agriculture shock, lower external demand and spillovers of tighter global financial conditions.

 Considered a shady business by some, tattoos are seeing a slow but certain attitude change in Vietnam led by the urban young and hip – its growing middle class,

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Viet Nam Social Insurance and Ministry of Health to take action and ensure that at least 90 per cent of the population is covered by health insurance by 2020,

The number of enterprises increasing their capital or returning to operations both increased in the first half of the year, according to the figures from the Agency for Business Registration at the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Formosa has accepted its responsibility for an environmental disaster in the central Vietnam, which caused mass fish deaths in four provinces in April, and committed to pay $500 million of compensation.

 Vietjet Air and the Incheon Tourism Organisation (ITO) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on June 30 signed an agreement to promote strategic cooperation in developing products and services, to facilitate travel between the two countries.

 The flag carrier Vietnam Airlines may have to reschedule its flights from/to three airports in the Central Highlands next month due to bad weather.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly yesterday agreed to postpone implementation of the newly amended Penal Code until all errors are fixed. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi currently has more than 5 million motorcycles and the figure will reach 11 million by 2025. The city has planned to ban private vehicles in 2025.