Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The said on Monday he apologised to the families of the victims in recent railway accident and would take responsibility for what had happened.

 The Ministry of Health is liaising with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to strengthen supervision over the Ebola virus in Congo and assess the risk of the virus spreading to Viet Nam.

 The 15th International Exhibition on Automobile, Transportation and Supporting Industry (Vietnam AutoExpo 2018) will be held at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi from June 6-9.

 Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) inched up 0.55 percent in May, the highest monthly increase since 2012, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The schedule of 12 flights to and from the Con Dao airport in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has been adjusted due to a drill held by the Con Dao district’s Military Command near the airport on May 29-30.  

 Nearly 60 million subscribers will have to change their 11-digit phone numbers to 10 digits from September 15, 2018 to June 30, 2019, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Foreign arrivals to Vietnam surpassed 6.7 million in the five months this year, up 27.6 percent annually, according to the General Statistics Office on May 29. 

 Da Nang is seeking investment to develop a solid waste treatment complex amid challenges facing the central city in dealing with the large volume of untreated solid waste.

 The VN-Index rose more than 20 points on May 29 after suffering a drop of 32 points on the previous day.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urged the Government’s Steering Committee for Price Management to seek measures in order to minimize external impacts on domestic prices, thus keeping CPI growth below 4 percent in 2018. 

 Right after his arrival in Japan on May 29 afternoon, President Tran Dai Quang and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam visited Gunma prefecture where about 7,000 Vietnamese people are living, studying and working.   

 Legislators mulled over several bills on May 29, the eighth working day of the fifth sitting of the 14th National Assembly. 

 Evidence of smuggling has been uncovered at two major ports in Ho Chi Minh City, with prohibited goods found in several containers left unclaimed during the past month.

 The Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications on May 29 warned that more than 500,000 routers and storages in many countries, including Vietnam, have been exposed to VPNFilter virus.

 Twenty-two embassies and international organisations in Vietnam will sign a code of conduct on plastic pollution prevention on June 4 to mark World Environment Day (June 5), according to the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam. 

Capacity building for teachers is crucial to educational reforms, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the meeting of the National Committee for Education Reforms and the National Council of Education and Human Resources Development.

Despite the value of VNG Corporation’s investment dropping like a stone, VNG plans to take the blow and wait out brighter times, as Tiki and ZaloPay are part of its long-term development plan.

Every year when spring comes around, Thai people in the Muong Thanh valley, Dien Bien province celebrate Xen Muong, one of the group’s biggest festivals in commemoration of the founders of ‘Muong’.

 Vietnam finished third at the fifth Asian Taekwondo  Poomsae Championship, which closed in Ho Chi Minh City on May 28. 

 The Ministry of Transport equitised 137 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) during 2011-16, surpassing the target by 67.