The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town in Hanoi, is hosting a programme celebrating the cultural diversity and customs of the Central Highlands region this June.

 Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich has lauded the official Vietnam visit made by Defence Minister of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Song Young-moo, saying that it will create stronger changes in bilateral national defence.

 The shift from 11 to 10-digit numbers will force millions of users to re-register their personal information in several places.

 Facebook and Google are not likely to leave Vietnam over the issue of installing servers in the country as they are making bank on Vietnamese users’ demand for their services.

 Hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have been found at Co To beaches in the northern province of Quang Ninh over the recent days.   

An artisan in Hanoi has a collection of hundreds of bronze statues along with many other antiques. 

 A bamboo work by Vietnam representative, architect Vo Trong Nghia, has been sent to compete in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy.

Nawaplastic Industries, a subsidiary of Thai conglomerate the Siam Cement Group, registered to purchase an additional 818,609 shares in the Binh Minh Plastic JSC, one of Vietnam’s leading plastics firms. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The authorities of many cities and provinces throughout the country have simultaneously launched ‘purification operations’ and sent notices with the aim of discovering “disappeared” enterprises.

 Car owners have filed a lawsuit against Ford Vietnam to Hai Duong People's Court over the PowerShift transmission and after-sales service.   

 The northern province of Bac Giang has invited 80 Chinese businesses to Luc Ngan District to buy litchi.

 A large rock suddenly fell onto a car in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau, killing the driver.

 Viettel Group will apply new international roaming rates for Myanmar when it launches its Mytel mobile phone network in that country on June 9.

The HCM City Integrated Circuit Development Programme and investment in minimal fab, a small-scale, low-cost method of manufacturing semi-conductors are vital to making HCM City a smart city, experts have said.

In the first five months of this year, the registered capital of newly licensed real estate projects reached US$623.3 million. 

 The Ministry of Construction has sent a document to the Prime Minister proposing to supplement a loan package worth VND3 trillion (US$132 million) to resolve difficulties in social housing projects.

 Since 2015, amendments to the tax laws have been causing negative impacts on domestic production, particularly of fertiliser.

 The National Assembly on Friday agreed to remove the master plan on the development of notarisation from a law being drafted to amend planning-related laws.

 Farmers should not increase herds of pigs at present, though the market has seen a strong recovery in pig prices, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

 The Viet Nam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose by 1.2 points to 53.9 in May, signalling continued improvement in the country’s business conditions.