The Vietnam Chamber of Commerrce & Industry and experts have warned that minimum limits on petroleum imports to be allocated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade may kill small businesses.

 For the medical officers of the first Vietnamese delegation to a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, the initial anxiety has been replaced with pride and confidence after receiving intensive training ahead of their one-year duty.

 Moves to reform textbooks and the general education curriculum must be undertaken to reduce work overload among students, the Prime Minister said in an instruction.

 100 Vietnamese fishermen on 20 boats were chased by Chinese boats while seeking shelter from strong waves in the Paracel Islands on Monday.

 Vietnam has witnessed major growth in the number of international hotel brands and foreign hotel management companies entering the country over the past few years.

 Vietnam’s pulp and paper industry is on its way to becoming one of the strongest in the region, with foreign companies dominating the scene, but concerns about the high cost of imported raw materials are growing.

Vietnamese and Japanese members of parliament have discussed ways to promote the CPTPP and strengthen exchanges between the two countries’ parliamentarians at all levels.

 Duong Thuy Linh, Miss Friendly of Miss Vietnam Universe 2008, will represent Vietnam to compete at Mrs Worldwide 2018.

 The Binh Thuan Investigation Police Agency decided to launch legal proceedings against and detain eight suspects for investigation of their allegedly involvement in social disturbance, property destruction and resisting on-duty officers. 

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc clarified concerns over the draft Law on Special Administrative – Economic Units and the draft Law on Cyber Security during a meeting with voters in Tien Lang district, Hai Phong on June 18. 

 Real estate tycoon Phan Van Anh Vu faces a life sentence after being charged with abusing his position to appropriate property in Dong A Bank case.

 Food delivery services are blooming in Hanoi for hungry late night TV watching football fans.

 Vietnam’s airports served a total of 43.3 million passengers and handled over 603,000 tonnes of goods in the first five months of this year, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).

 Police of Binh Tan district in Ho Chi Minh City on June 18 began criminal proceedings against a man and a woman for “resisting on-duty officers."

 Cases that workers stop working and gather in cities and provinces have decreased gradually and by June 16, most of the protesting workers resumed their work, said an official of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour.

 Many state officials have tried to appoint and promote as many people as possible just before their retirement no matter if the position is full or not.

A project to build a USD4-billion so-called smart city in Hanoi will start in the outlying district of Dong Anh in October this year.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in May rose by 0.55% against the previous month, the largest monthly increase in the last six years, according to the General Statistics Office.

 Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a man accused of killing a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. 

 The border guard force of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on June 18 afternoon handed over three traffickers of crystal meth to the provincial police.