VietNamNet Bridge - Events during US President Obama’s visit to Vietnam helped promote many domestic brands.

The long-delayed approval of an equitisation plan for the country’s largest state-owned shipping company, Vinalines, has again been set back, leaving foreign investors languishing in an investment dilemma.

Vietnam highly appreciates the US Senate’s approval of a draft resolution that would repeal the US Department of Agriculture’s catfish inspection programme, said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh on May 31.

 The Song Da Joint Stock Company 11 was accused of mixing soil with concrete while laying a base for the 220kV-electric poles in Vu Ban District of northern Nam Dinh Province.

 The development and collapse of an underground karst cave caused a depression in An Tien Commune, My Duc District in Hanoi on April 2, experts said.

 Tens of thousands of Vietnamese workers will have opportunities to work in the Republic of Korea (RoK) when the country re-opens its labour market to Vietnam from the middle of 2016.

HCM City People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong is concerned that without suitable policies, foreign investors will dominate the retail market in the country in the near future.

 Vietnam Report 2035 shows that the current institutions of Vietnam are facing two major problems: creating barriers for autonomous operation of the private sector, weak capacity and low accountability.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After fewer than two years exploring seaplane service, Hai Au (Seagull) Airlines has incurred heavy losses and faces a threat of stopping operation.

  Forbes Viet Nam Magazine has named the top 50 listed companies of the year in the local stock markets.

 Golfer Hoang Ngoc Quy will represent Việt Nam at the Scottish Open in July after winning the two-day Ballentine’s International Cup 2016.

 Vietnamese female Grandmaster Nguyen Thi Mai Hung beat Pourkashiyan Atousa of Iran in the fourth round at the Asian Individual Chess Championship in Uzbekistan.

 Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh dropped three places to World No 35 in the latest rankings, the sport’s governing body announced.

 The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) is investigating the damage caused to a local household’s roof allegedly caused by an aircraft landing at an airport in central Nghe An Province.

 Vietnamese enterprises, especially those having trade links with Chinese counterparts, will suffer from the negative impacts of China’s move to devalue its yuan currency, said experts.

 Hundreds of ancient trees in Tra Vinh city, which is described as the "Green City" of the Mekong Delta region, could be at risk of death, experts warn.

 The Prime Minister has signed off on an action plan for an integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) strategy in Vietnam up to 2020.

 The third conference of young Vietnamese scientists took place in Chung-Ang University, Seoul on May 29, attracting 100 young intellectuals and scientists from universities and research institutes across the Republic of Korea (RoK).

 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on May 30 gave life sentence to Jones Nathan Andrew James, an Australian national, on the charge of the illegal transportation of drugs.

 A high-ranking Vietnamese delegation has met with Italian communist parties’ officials to cement ties between the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Italian side.