The Ministry of Industry and Trade is crafting a new strategy to protect the auto industry with tax policies at its centre, Sai Gon Times Weekly reported.

A UN delegation is making an assessment and advisory visit to the Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre from June 26-30 to examine the country’s military medicine and engineering capacity for peacekeeping.

President Tran Dai Quang, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Minsk on June 26 afternoon, beginning a three-day official visit to Belarus.

 Tourist arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City reached some 2.8 million in the first half of 2017, a 14.7% increase year-on-year. 

 Hanoi Football Club will compete in the Gothia World Youth Cup 2017 from July 16-22 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

 Ho Chi Minh City wishes the National Council of Front for the Development of Cambodian Motherland (FDCM) facilitate cooperation in front work between Vietnam’s southern city and the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich received outgoing Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam Meirav Eilon Shahar in Hanoi on June 26.

Lao PM Thongloun Sisoulith has urged the Special Working Committees of the Vietnamese and Lao Governments to continue their close coordination in searching and repatriating remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts. 

 National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien on June 26 welcomed head of the Justice Committee of the Lao National Assembly Bouakham Thippavong. 

Right after his arrival in Minsk on June 26, President Tran Dai Quang met representatives of the Belarus-Vietnam Friendship Association (BVFA) and Belarusian veterans who helped Vietnam in wartime.

Young Vietnamese chess players won 20 gold medals at the Eastern Asian Youth Chess Championships which concluded in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on June 25.

 Situated at the foot of the Long Bien Bridge in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Long Bien fruit and vegetable market is known as the largest wholesale market in Hanoi and northern Vietnam as a whole.

Its official name is Le Hong Phong Market, but for decades people have been calling this market in HCM City’s District 10 “Cambodian Market” simply because it sells certain products from Cambodia. 

In recent years, millions of electronic game fans have gradually left internet cafes, where they played games on PCs, and have shifted to mobile phones. 

The retail pharmacy market has garnered increasing attention from investors of late, not all of them experienced in the field.

VietNamNet Bridge - In recent years, the landslides in western Ca Mau province have become more serious. The sea has not only encroached on forests, but also eaten into farmland.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of bosses in the oil & gas sector have been charged by law enforcement agencies for unprofitable multi-trillion projects. 

Any judgment on how the government led by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has performed just after one year in office is still premature as the real tests lie ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Phuong Anh has turned down two scholarships for doctoral study and decided to study first for a master’s degree in English literature in the US. 

 The New Rice celebration is the most important ritual of the year for the Xo Dang.