A group of young people in HCM City has begun a project to set up 1,001 libraries for children in remote areas.

 The government of Hanoi City plans to provide 39.8 hectares of land in Nam Tu Liem District in exchange for the construction of a 2.8-kilometer road, news website VnEconomy reported.

 The General Department of Vietnam Customs has ordered customs agencies in cities and provinces to place tighter controls on waste imports into Vietnam, Thanh Nien newspaper reported.

 The Muay Thai (Thai boxing) Fight Night is scheduled to take place at Riverside Palace in HCM City on June 22.

 More private companies have shown poor competitiveness though Vietnam is intensifying its global economic integration, the 2018 Vietnam Business Development Forum heard in the capital city of Hanoi on June 19.

 The situation of security and order in HCMC was in control, the city police reported yesterday.

Following the U.S. Federal Reserve’s (Fed) short-term interest rate hike and possibly many more hikes this year and the next, Vietnamese banks have announced that they are always ready to cope with any monetary tightening stateside.

An Suong-An Lac Station in Binh Tan District will begin electronic toll collection in July.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines has finally decided to raise the salaries for its pilots to VND205-246 million. However, the debate over pilots’ salaries still continues.

 A visitor has been killed and several others injured when a tree fell at the clay tunnel in Dalat City.

 Hanoi Power Corporation (EVN Hanoi) is asking customers to use power wisely during summer months to avoid power cuts.

 HCM City’s hotel market, especially the luxury segment, is attractive to investors due to the relentless rise in tourist numbers.

For Thai people in the North West in particular and ethnic minorities in general, the construction of new houses is very important. 

 Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has released directions on guidelines of investing in Bamboo Airways air transport project in Phu Cat Airport in Phu Cat District, the central province of Binh Dinh. 

Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Ukrainian counterpart Sergiy Kyslytsya held a political consultation in Hanoi on June 20.

 Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) is sending four young amateur footballers to Russia to participate in FIFA’s Football for Hope Festival 2018.

 The new version of the news portal of Vietnam News Agency (VNA) was launched at http://www.vnanet.vn (international name) and http://www.ttxvn.vn (Vietnamese name) on June 21.

 Dutch choreographer Joost Vrouenraets has arrived in HCMC to prepare for contemporary dance show Café Saigon on June 30 at the Saigon Opera House.

VietNamNet Bridge - A deal worth $6 billion is expected to be officially inked in Washington DC at the end of June between Bamboo Airways, belonging to FLC Group, and Boeing.

Open-air art exhibition “Rubbish of the Spring 2018″ is opened to visitors at VICAS Center for Assistance and Development of Contemporary Arts in Hanoi’s Dong Da District until December 31, 2018.