The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has continued net cash injections into the monetary market for three consecutive weeks to support the liquidity of the banking system.

 Despite smartphone manufacturers’ best efforts, there is still a big market in HCM City, often driven by nostalgia, for old feature phones, which is driving their prices to unreasonable levels.

 Sales of fast moving consumer goods have slowed down this year in both urban and rural areas, according to Kantar Worldpanel, a global expert in shoppers’ behaviour.

 Viet Nam imported more than 5.56 million tonnes of oil and petroleum products worth nearly US$3.6 billion in the first five months of the year.

 Japanese-Vietnamese Hanako Kawasaki claimed victory at the National Amateur Golf Open on Monday at the SAM Tuyen Lam Resort in Da Lat.

 HCM City will be showing the opening ceremony and World Cup fixtures on big screens along the pedestrian zone on Nguyen Hue Street, the municipal People’s Committee has announced.

 Former professional footballers Steve McManaman, Lois Saha and Dennis Wise will arrive in Vietnam on Friday to carry out the draw for the Caraboa Cup.

 A seminar on lacquer painting will be held by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Hanoi Goethe Institute on June 13.

Ninh Binh Province Inspectorate have announced the wrongdoings of a tourism firm as well as responsibilities of local authorities over the huge walkway that was built illegally in the UNESCO heritage site of Trang An.   

 Hanoi authorities have agreed to allow the hiring out of a state villa returned by a former chairman of the municipal People's Committee. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The entire banking system is expected to need VND63 trillion to increase their charter capital this year.

In Vietnam, 74 percent of software installed on computers was not properly licensed. This represents a four point decrease compared with BSA’s prior study, released in 2016.

 Police in Hanoi have threatened strict punishments for those who destroy state assets, attack the persons on duty or cause public disorder.

HCM City is one of Asia’s most enterprising cities and become home to large clusters of business services, engineering, finance and retail firms, and strong creative industries, according to JLL.

 Some police were hospitalised in protests in the central province of Binh Thuan against the draft special economic zone (SEZ) law.

The Government Inspectorate has revealed mining management violations in Lao Cai Province that have caused losses of VND95.20bn (USD4.15m) to the state budget.    

Chairman of the People’s Committee of the south central province of Binh Dinh Ho Quoc Dung on June 12 approved a proposal of a solar power project worth $63.36 million in Tra O lagoon in My Chau commune, Phu My district.

Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich held talks with his Indian counterpart Nirmala Sitharaman in Hanoi on June 13 during the latter’s official visit to Vietnam from June 12-15. 

 The UN values Vietnam’s strong commitment to realising SDGs, adapting to climate change, protecting the environment and engaging more strongly in UN’s peacekeeping activities, said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. 

 Trade revenue between Vietnam and G7 countries – France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Japan, the US and Canada – reached 113 billion USD in 2017,a according to the General Customs Department of Vietnam.