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 Police announced on Thursday evening it had issued a wanted notice against former company executive Vu Dinh Duy, under whose leadership a State-owned firm lost millions of dollars.

 A symphony of the diversified culture of various ethnic groups will be performed on Saturday in the walking street by Hoan Kiem Lake.

 The Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation on May 31 presented the annual Balaban Award to Bui Xuan Duc, director of HCM City’s General Science Library.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Air quality in Hanoi has seen improvement in the first four months of the year, but not in all parts of the city.

A man who illegally purchased around 7,000 dead sea turtles several years ago is expected to be sentenced to two to seven years in prison, a more severe punishment than what was proposed last year. 

 Imagine being trapped in a spaceship with the world's smelliest fruit. Thailand's space research agency has just announced plans to send durian to space by July, as part of a project to produce Thai food suitable for future space travel.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “It’s storming outside/but no matter what it’s like/our family love will last forever/wall of love nothing can sever.”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Popular specialities from many cities and provinces are on offer at the 8th Southern Food Festival that opened yesterday at Dam Sen Cultural Park in HCM City’s District 11.

The clause on requiring foreign enterprises to install servers in Vietnam was struck out from the draft Law on Cybercecurity at the on National Assembly session.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam are in Group E of the AFC U19 Women’s Championship 2019 qualifiers, according to the AFC’s draw held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several religious activities through HCM City have marked the occasion of the Buddha’s 2,562th birthday, which fell on May 29 this year, the 15th day of the fourth lunar month.

While National Assembly’s deputies believe that allocating land for up to 99 years in special economic zones SEZs is not a good policy, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) still persists in its opinion.

VietNamNet Bridge - The goal of cutting 50 percent of business sub-licenses in 2018 may be unattainable as many ministries still don’t have preliminary plans to simplify business conditions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A pilot project of Germany on training Vietnamese nurses has proved effective, as was reported at a seminar reviewing the project held in Berlin.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has agreed with the Tay Ninh Province’s policy to merge the Chang Riec historical and cultural forest with Lo Go-Xa Mat National Park for administrative purposes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The intellectual property (IP) registration process, which lasts 36-42 months, will be shortened to 36 months from June 1 next year.

The National Assembly debate on the draft amendment to the anti-corruption law on Thursday was thrown into confusion as the deputies failed to agree on how to handle the suspicious unreported wealth of a public servant.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities are struggling to control illegal mineral mining and transportation in the northern province of Bac Kan.