Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has signed into issuance three resolutions adopted at the 12th Party Central Committee’s fifth plenary meeting that took place in early May.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued a circular on the promulgation of a list of wild fauna and flora species regulated in appendixes of CITES. 

 The 2017 U15 International Football Challenge Cup will take place in the central city of Da Nang from June 14-18.

 The second Asian Junior Taekwondo Championships 2017 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on June 6, attracting 277 martial artists aged 12-14 from 17 regional countries. 

 A treaty supplementing the Border Delimitation Treaty between Vietnam and Laos regarding the revision of the starting point of the two countries’ border line was the focus of the National Assembly’s plenary session in Hanoi on June 6 morning. 

 Prime Ministers Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Shinzo Abe reached high consensus on major orientations and specific measures to push forward the extensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Japan. 

 A string of new government policies come into force in June, including the exemption of land use fees for housing projects, and specific financial mechanisms for HCM City.

 The 14th National Assembly (NA) will carry out question and answer (Q&A) sessions from June 13 to 15 as part of its ongoing third session.

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese businesses have been flocking to Vietnam, competing with Vietnamese enterprises to collect materials, causing a material shortage. 

Vietnam always give top priority to cooperative relations with Japan and will do their best to elevate the ties to new heights for interests of the two countries’ people, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnamese banks pay VND20 million ($900) or so to every worker, foreign banks pay three times higher.

 President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman arrived in Hanoi on June 6 to start his three-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

 The Vietnam National Shipping Lines and Japan’s NYK Line will study developing transportation and logistics activities to serve plants and industrial parks in the Mekong Delta region, per a Memorandum of Understanding inked on June 5.

VietNamNet Bridge - Uber and Grab have begun providing taxi services at airports, the market that traditional taxi firms typically have dominated.

Generating electricity on house roofs and developing household-created electricity is a good solution for clean energy, especially when large solar power projects are having difficulties due to high investment rates and lack of land.

Scientists have once again raised their concerns about water security in the Mekong Delta, saying that hydropower dams on the Mekong River's upper course as well as Thailand, Laos and Cambodia’s plans to divert the river are the biggest threats.

 According to Vietnamese law, a child who is conceived by the wife during marriage or is born within 300 days after the court’s judgment or ruling on divorce of his/her parents becomes legally effective is the common child of the divorced couple.

 National Assembly deputies on June 5 discussed a report detailing supervision results of the implementation of law and policy on food safety in the 2011-2016 period.

 The Hanoi People’s Committee, BRG Group and Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation signed a cooperation agreement on developing Nhat Tan-Noi Bai urban project with total investment of more than 4 billion USD.

“GDP growth has important significance for Vietnam as it creates resources for investment & development, generates jobs, and increases the budget revenue,” said Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment (MPI).