The 5th ASEAN Inline Freestyle Skating Championship opened in Vung Tau city, the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on June 22.

 As of the end of last month, sugar inventories surged to 670,000 tons, given the rising volume of smuggled sugar in the domestic market, Lao Dong newspaper reported, citing data from the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA).

The Department of Trade Defense has announced that several U.S. steel makers have filed a case against Vietnamese exporters, claiming they have avoided paying antidumping and antisubsidy duties on corrosion-resistant carbon and cold-rolled steel.

 A total of 782,000 people have been offered with jobs since the beginning of this year, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan on the restructuring of the mother company of Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) in the form of selling State capital and issuing more stocks to increase its charter capital.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) said that land price surge in suburban districts in late 2017 to May, 2018 has cooled down.

 Police detained a man on June 21 who was suspected of throwing explosives into a police station in HCM City.    

The Vietnam General Department of State Reserves organised a ceremony in Hai Phong on June 21, to present 5,000 tonnes of rice and gifts to the people of Cuba.

 Two Vietnamese workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a truck carrying them overturned in Laos on Thursday.

 Despite the current increasing foreign investment inflows, merged and acquired banks will consider selling stakes to foreign investors after completing the restructuring to up the attractiveness of sales, bank officials said.

 More and more Russian agricultural products are finding their way into the Vietnamese market, according to the Russian Export Centre in Vietnam.

 Vietnam and Azerbaijan agreed to maintain meetings of their Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technological Cooperation to bolster bilateral collaboration.

Vietnam has recently joined the group of rice bran oil-producing countries, with a modest output, but as one of the largest rice exporters in the world, the country has great potential for developing this industry. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s pepper industry is sustaining a blow in the face of a surplus in the world market.

 Many streets in Hanoi are still covered by the tangled mess of overhead power lines, phone and television cables, posing latent dangers for local residents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of containers of plastics and scrap materials are stuck at ports, causing problems for government agencies. 

 A French music festival took place in Ho Chi Minh City on June 21 as part of activities to commemorate the 45th founding anniversary of Vietnam-France diplomatic ties (April 12, 1973).

The police on June 21 began proceeding procedures against four people accused of abusing position and power to appropriate assets in three petroleum companies under PetroVietnam.

 Hidenori Ushio from Japan sent a letter of thanks to the Criminal Police Office of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on June 21 for recovering his missing assets. 

 Laos will use Blockchain technology developed by a Vietnamese company for the e-governance use, becoming the third country globally after Estonia and Dubai using the technology in this area.