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.

 Guatemala's most violent volcano eruption in more than a century has killed at least 25 people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – French photographer, journalist and publisher Nicolas Cornet on Friday (June 1) released a photo book on pagodas in Vietnam in HCM City.

 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. 

Chanh Trach 1 Village in the southern province of Binh Dinh is the only place in Vietnam that grows giant winter melons. 

 A series of 23 exciting events under the 2018 Da Nang Summer Destination programme, taking place from June 16 to 20, promises to give visitors a new and interesting experience in the coastal city this summer. 

A few days ahead of his 10th liveshow, Vietnamese divo Tung Duong and famous veteran songwriter Nguyen Cuong have introduced their joint production, an album entitled Tung Duong Sings Songs by Nguyen Cuong.  

 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 – A flashmob featuring 150 models at East Sea Park in My Khe beach will launch Da Nang’s Summer Destination Week on June 16, the city’s tourism department said.

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.