The General Department of Vietnam Customs has ordered customs agencies in cities and provinces to place tighter controls on waste imports into Vietnam, Thanh Nien newspaper reported.

 The Muay Thai (Thai boxing) Fight Night is scheduled to take place at Riverside Palace in HCM City on June 22.

 More private companies have shown poor competitiveness though Vietnam is intensifying its global economic integration, the 2018 Vietnam Business Development Forum heard in the capital city of Hanoi on June 19.

 The situation of security and order in HCMC was in control, the city police reported yesterday.

Following the U.S. Federal Reserve’s (Fed) short-term interest rate hike and possibly many more hikes this year and the next, Vietnamese banks have announced that they are always ready to cope with any monetary tightening stateside.

An Suong-An Lac Station in Binh Tan District will begin electronic toll collection in July.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines has finally decided to raise the salaries for its pilots to VND205-246 million. However, the debate over pilots’ salaries still continues.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh yesterday issued a fine of VND1.9 billion (US$93,600) on a local sugar factory for illegally discharge into Con river. 

 A visitor has been killed and several others injured when a tree fell at the clay tunnel in Dalat City.

 Hanoi Power Corporation (EVN Hanoi) is asking customers to use power wisely during summer months to avoid power cuts.

 HCM City’s hotel market, especially the luxury segment, is attractive to investors due to the relentless rise in tourist numbers.

For Thai people in the North West in particular and ethnic minorities in general, the construction of new houses is very important. 

 Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung has released directions on guidelines of investing in Bamboo Airways air transport project in Phu Cat Airport in Phu Cat District, the central province of Binh Dinh. 

 The European Union will launch a raft of retaliatory tariffs against US exports on Friday, a top official has said.

Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Ukrainian counterpart Sergiy Kyslytsya held a political consultation in Hanoi on June 20.

 Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) is sending four young amateur footballers to Russia to participate in FIFA’s Football for Hope Festival 2018.

 The numbers of visitors from China, the largest market for Vietnam’s tourism sector, and the Republic of Korea, the second-largest, have increased dramatically in the past few years.

 The new version of the news portal of Vietnam News Agency (VNA) was launched at http://www.vnanet.vn (international name) and http://www.ttxvn.vn (Vietnamese name) on June 21.

The island district of Ly Son will host a festival for adventurers from nationwide to explore the beauty of the islands during the Islands and Tourism Week from June 29 to July 3.

 Dutch choreographer Joost Vrouenraets has arrived in HCMC to prepare for contemporary dance show Café Saigon on June 30 at the Saigon Opera House.