Vietnamese is ranked fourth among 301 languages being used in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ report on population survey in 2016.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will visit Germany and attend the G20 Summit in Hamburg from July 5-8 at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 

 A national conference for Party officials to study the three resolutions related to the economy adopted at the fifth plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee was opened in Hanoi on June 29.

 Vietnam’s National Assembly is willing to work closely with the Republic of Korea’s parliament to help accelerate the two countries’ strategic cooperative partnership, said NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu.

 The Vietnam Embassy in the Republic of Korea has promptly carried out citizen protection measures concerning the recent murder of a Vietnamese citizen in the country, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang on June 29.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung has handed over the post of Chairman of the ASEAN Committee in Pretoria (APC) to the Indonesia Ambassador. 

 The People’s Court of the central province of Khanh Hoa on June 29 gave a jail sentence of ten years to Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh on the charge of conducting anti-State propaganda. 

President Tran Dai Quang and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on June 29 expressed particular interest in strengthening commercial cooperation, agreeing on investing more than $10 billion in both country.

VietNamNet Bridge - FPT CEO Truong Gia Binh, known by the international press as Vietnam’s Bill Gates, told Nikkei that FPT is ahead of India in the digital industry. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Hoang San, a student at the Hue City High School for the Gifted, says some of his innovative ideas appear in dreams or come to him unconsciously.

VietNamNet Bridge - It can take many years to reclaim a new market for Vietnam’s farm produce, but even when the markets open, fruit producers still struggle because of trade barriers. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Three hydropower plants in central Vietnam are located in a core ecological area, one in a natural reserve’s ecological rehabilitation zone. 

If fiscal discipline is upheld in allocating budget expenditures following the approved budget estimates, the state budget will face less severe deficits and even enjoy surpluses in some years.

 Vietnam won the opening match of the Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship, held in Ninh Binh Province on Wednesday.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered the National Committee of Traffic Safety and the Ministry of Transport to take measures against overloaded vehicles, and non-transparent competitiveness in car transport businesses.

 The director of the Bac Bien Ho protection forest’s management unit in Central Highlands’ Gia Lai Province has been suspended from work for misconduct in forest land use.

Thua Thien – Hue is exerting every effort to complete compensation for locals affected by the marine environment incident last year, according to an official of the provincial People’s Committee. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Brands are trying to fully exploit their advantage to compete with rivals, but most of them are developing a model that is a hybrid between a convenience store and fast food shop.

Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong has said that the ministry does not license the number of cars attending a pilot project on app-based taxi service approved by the Prime Minister.

Over the last few months, Thai Hung Trading JSC repeatedly purchased huge numbers of Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel Corporation’s stocks, and it is rumoured that it will continue expanding its ownership in Tisco.