An arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the East Sea will deliver its decision on July 12, it said in a statement on June 29.

 A new Disney entertainment and information portal was introduced to the public by Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia Pte. Limited and Mobifone Telecommunications Corporation yesterday.

 887, 396 candidates nationwide conduct procedures to prepare for the 2016 National High School Examination.

 Vietnam’s education reform efforts got a boost today with a World Bank-funded Enhancing Teacher Education Program, which supports the delivery of continuous professional development to teachers and principals.

 The Vietnam Azalea Fund (VAF), managed by Mekong Capital, will divest nearly half of its stake in the Ho Chi Minh City-headquartered Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company (PNJ) via negotiations, the fund manager announced on June 29.

 As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hanoi over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced yesterday.

A strengthened co-operative mechanism between the Vietnam Fatherland Front and other State anti-corruption agencies is needed to better oversee and detect corruption, participants said at a conference to review results of Anti-Corruption Law 2005.

 Vietnam has 23 athletes in 10 sports who have qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5-21, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

A funeral was held in Hanoi in the morning of June 30 for nine crewmembers of the CASA-212 aircraft who died in a search and rescue mission.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fine arts students and art lovers in the central city of Da Nang are familiar with the work of British graffiti artist Knee Jerk (his preferred alias).

 VietNamNet Bridge – A street photography exhibition titled Like a Life will be held by AIA’s Ha Noi office (AIA Viet Nam Insurance Company) from June 29 to July 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 4,000 marathoners and their family members are eligible to run in the annual Da Nang International Marathon 2016, to be held on August 6th.

VietNamNet Bridge - While investors have become impatient about the state capital disinvestment process, the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) and governing bodies have remained quiet.

 Organizers of the Oscars, facing an outcry over the lack of diversity on its voting board for the film awards, said on Wednesday it has invited nearly 700 new members with a focus on female and minority talent.

 Tesaro Inc said its experimental ovarian cancer drug niraparib met the main goal of prolonging survival in patients, without the disease worsening, in a late-stage trial, sending its shares to a record high.

VietNamNet Bridge - When the rain pours down in summer is also the time tourists flock to Mo, Tran and Mam Xoi waterfalls.

 Germany has abandoned plans to set out a timetable to exit coal-fired power production and scrapped C02 emissions reduction goals for individual sectors,

 Refinery expansion set to clear land hurdles, Vietnam firms warned of trade fraud in Brazil, Real estate market faces imbalanced growth, Property inventory sees sluggish fall, Trade deficit widens on rising imports

VietNamNet Bridge - A huge amount of capital has been poured into Vietnamese technology startups in recent years.               

 The local retail community has asked the Government to develop policies to help the industry compete with foreign counterparts as a more liberal trade environment has intensified competition in recent years.