VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities have found information related to 19 individuals and organizations in Vietnam named in the Panama Papers, which were unveiled in early May.

Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung requested all-out efforts to search for and rescue those missing in the Su30 MK2 and Casa 212 military aircraft accidents during a working session with the Defence Ministry’s Front Line Command.

 The environment ministry has objected to a hydropower project that would go up in Yok Don National Park in Daklak Province due to environmental concerns.

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has ordered an investigation into a local titanium exploiter in Binh Thuan Province after a waste reservoir broke allowing huge amounts of toxic red mud to flood residential areas.

 Around 130 delegates from the UK, Vietnam and ASEAN countries discussed innovative ways to make university / industry partnership more fruitful in creating more employable graduates and driving innovation.

President Tran Dai Quang has proposed that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) continue to provide soft loans to Vietnam to realise its socio-development goals. 

The visits to Laos and Cambodia of President Tran Dai Quang delivered the new leadership’s determination and wishes to continually cement and develop the time-honoured friendship and comprehensive cooperation with the two neighbouring countries.

 Better links between industries and educational institutions are needed to enhance the employability of graduates in a more competitive globalised environment, said Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga.

 Firms listed on Vietnam's two stock exchanges in HCM City and Hanoi will be the first to be required to adopt international financial reporting standards in 2020, a finance ministry official has said.

 Despite sluggish global growth, Vietnam’s economy is expected to continue to grow at a moderate pace and leave behind other large ASEAN nations in 2016, a recent report from the OECD states.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s agriculture and rice tilling in particular has been under so much pressure that it will have to undergo restructuring.  

 A Vietnamese coastguard plane crashed on Thursday near Bach Long Vi Island in the northern province of Hai Phong while searching for the co-pilot of the missing Su-30MK2 fighter jet.

 Ho Chi Minh City is applying itself to burying all overhead power lines by 2020 as the “spider’s web” of overhead cables is marring the city’s image.

Vietnam treasures ties with ADB, considering the lender one of the top donors in the supply of capital, technical assistance and policy consultation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told ADB President Takehiko Nakao.

 Five modern technology trends and applications were introduced at the sixth Cloud8 Day, themed “The Internet of things – everything on the cloud,” that opened in HCM City on June 16.

 The provinces of Quang Tri in the central region of Vietnam and Savannakhet and Salavan in Laos have reviewed the progress of a joint project to increase and upgrade border markers along the shared border.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on Vietnam and Thailand to redouble their efforts in order to bring bilateral trade to 20 billion USD in 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - There are more than 700 supermarkets in the country, but most Vietnamese are indifferent to the modern retail channel.

 Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh met with Chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) of the Czech Republic Vojtech Filip on June 16 as part of her working visit to the European country.

The special meeting of ASEAN and Chinese Foreign Ministers has achieved positive results in a friendly, straightforward and constructive spirit, contributing to strengthening mutual understanding and trust.