VietNamNet Bridge – Ka Don Church in Don Duong District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has come in second place at the 6th International Prize for Sacred Architecture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A club for women at high risk of falling into prostitution will be set up in HCM City to apprise the women about labour laws and test them for sexually transmitted disease, a city official said.

 Ho Chi Minh City has announced the introduction of a credit support package for startups worth VND1 trillion ($45 million).

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 Vietnamese tennis player, Ly Hoang Nam, jumped up five places from 877th to 872nd place in the latest world rankings.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is asking for the Prime Minister’s approval to its hosting of the 38th ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF 2019).

  The import of completely built-up (CBU) autos from India in May jumped more than 20 times from February to over 3,500 units with an average price of only 112 million VND (4,870 USD).

 The Port of Lazaro Cardenas (LCT), the largest Mexican container port, launched routes to Vietnam and Chile on June 21 which will save up from 13 to 18 days of transit.

 Vietnam’s foreign exchange reserves, exclusive of gold, reached a record high of 38 billion USD in mid-June, said State Bank of Vietnam Governor Le Minh Hung.

 Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City will continue holding meetings with local and foreign businesspeople to promptly unlock obstacles facing them, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang pledged.

 Vietnam’s Embassy in Malaysia said that it has taken protection measures towards 23 Vietnamese fishermen who were recently arrested by the Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).

 The heads of representative Vietnamese agencies abroad for the 2016-2019 tenure should help bring home new, modern communications methods in service of the country’s external communications programmes.

More financial assistance will be provided for 11 provinces and one State-owned company to ease drought and saltwater intrusion consequences.

 Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong greeted visiting Lao Defence Minister Chansamone Channhalat on June 21.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many students are shocked when they move up to the sixth grade as they are unfamiliar with the scoring and exams applied by secondary schools. Therefore, they have to learn  to fill in gaps in knowledge.

VietNamNet Bridge - E-commerce delivery firms usually make no profits in the first two or three years of operation. Though they have to spend big money, their revenue is modest.

VietNamNet Bridge - More foreign conglomerates have expressed their desire to develop clean energy projects in Vietnam, but the number of investors remains modest.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over a month after the State Bank of Viet Nam called on banks to cut interest rates on loans, particularly to businesses, some banks - including joint stock lenders - have reduced their rates by 0.5-1 per cent.

Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia doing much better than Vietnam in tourism promotion, international arrivals, and growth.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi needs 20-30 air monitoring stations, but only two are operational, and they can only measure basic indexes.