VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s administrative reforms are delivering results and there will be more of the same, city authorities have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese universities are among the top 1,000 universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.

 Some experts have called for far better public transport and apartment buildings in order to deal with severe congestion problem.    

 The chairman of agricultural firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAG) has made another attempt to buy shares of the company after its share value plummeted.

 Chicken and Cumbia at Indika, Heritage Space to host sound synthesis, Quang Nam hosts third Central Ethnic Culture Festival

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks to Reuters News Agency about how Vietnam benefits from and contributes to international exchange at multilateral forums on the occasion of the G7 outreach meeting

The funds managed by Alp Asia Finance have become a shareholder of Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) since May 7, holding a 10 percent stake of the bank. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-two documentaries will be screened during the European - Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival from tomorrow to June 17 in Hanoi and HCM City.

Solo exhibition “Perfect Reality” by artist Luu Tuyen was opened to visitors at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi on June 6. 

 The Transport Ministry’s scheme approved by the Prime Minister in 2010 to impose checks on motorcycles’ exhaust emission has yet to be implemented by competent agencies to date, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reports.

 A tax sum of VND1 trillion, or some US$43.8 million, from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. helped buoy the HCMC customs tax revenue in May to VND10.8 trillion and keep the decline under check, according to the HCMC Customs Department.

Vietnam plans to more than triple the amount of electricity it produces from renewable sources and push for a 26% increase in household solar energy usage by 2030, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told Reuters in an interview.

 Vietnam’s Government bond market needs to be made more appealing, as recent years have seen a lack of foreign participation.

 Legislators and voters expressed hope that ministers will put their words at the question-and-answer (Q&A) session of the 14th National Assembly’s fifth session into action.

 Vietnam is wasting millions of tonnes of straw every year, which can instead be used to make useful fertilisers and protect the environment.

 The Friends of Vietnam Heritage will organise two English-speaking city walks during the weekend.

 Two flamenco and classical guitar concerts by Michel Grizard and Helena Cueto will be hosted by L’Espace on June 21 and 23.

 Scientists are warning that pollution could be starving Europe's trees of vital nutrients by damaging essential fungi.

Members of the HCM City Chess Team won two gold medals at the 2018 National Chess Tournament on June 5.

 Myanmar has introduced the traditional Vietnamese martial art vovinam into the curricula of six national sport academies in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Madalay, Mon, Rayah, Shon and Sagain.