Under the plan on debt payment and loans in 2016, the Government plans to borrow $20 billion to pay debts and cover its expenses, including $15 billion from the Social Insurance Fund and the State Capital Investment Corporation.

VietNamNet Bridge - The motorbike consumption level in Vietnam remains the highest in the world, but it has been falling in recent years. 

HCMC has proposed the National Assembly Financial and Budgetary Committee ask the Ministry of Finance to seek Government approval for a special financing mechanism for the southern economic center.

 Hanoi wishes to step up its partnerships with Belarusian localities, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung told Belarusian Ambassador Valery Sadokho on June 8.

 Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh met with Polish President Andrzej Duda on June 8 on the occasion of attending the 26th Global Summit of Women in Warsaw capital city.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA) election results showed that members of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) accounted for 95.8% while non-Party membership deputies made up 4.2%, down 50% from the previous term.

 Coffee production in Viet Nam could drop up to 7 per cent in 2016 and 2017, to 27.3 million bags over the previous crop, due to adverse weather conditions.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh entered the second round of the Xiamenair Australian Badminton Open in Sydney on June 8.

 The 12th ASEAN-China senior officials’ meeting on the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) will take place in Vietnam’s Ha Long City on June 9.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many researchers with doctorates last year left the Biotechnology Institute of the Vietnam Science & Technology Academy because they could not live on the monthly wage of VND3 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese tycoons are now rich enough to take over foreign firms, using them as a jumping board to conquer the international market.

VietNamNet Bridge  - The Ministry of Science & Technology has reaffirmed the importance of basic sciences amid the community’s decreased interest in the role of the sciences. 

VietNamNet Bridge - No legal document specifying which technologies can or cannot not be imported to Vietnam exists. This ambiguity has hindered Vietnam from ‘filtering’ projects that could cause pollution. 

The third policy dialogue in the framework of the EU project on Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region opened in Hanoi on June 8, gathering over 150 senior educational leaders, managers, scholars and students.

 A Vietnam Airlines flight en route from Da Nang to Hanoi had to divert to Laos on June 7 after it could not make a landing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport due to bad weather.

 One person was killed and three others in a family were seriously injured when lightning struck their house in Cu K’Nia commune, Cu Jut district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, on June 8.

 Japan’s U-16 team cruised to a 4-1 win over U-16 Hoàng Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) in a friendly match at HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium yesterday.

 More than 75,000 students in Hanoi began the rigorous entrance exams for a place in the capital’s state-owned high schools in the academic year 2016-17, with literature being the first exam subject today.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has renewed the appeal to Japan to help Vietnam build mid- and long-term solutions to drought and salt water intrusion, as agreed upon during the recent talks between the two countries’ Prime Ministers in Japan.

  National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception for Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Herminio Lopez Diaz in Hanoi on June 8.