Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan suggested the Prime Minister assign administrative units to reduce personnel by 2 percent per year during a teleconference between the Government and localities on July 2. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has recently made several requests regarding the organisation of the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2018 (ABU Robocon 2018), scheduled for August 26 in the northern province of Ninh Binh. 

 Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has affirmed his support for enhancing all-round cooperation with Vietnam during his reception for visiting Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on July 2. 

As predicted, the bitcoin bubble has burst. Cryptocurrency fever in the fourth quarter of 2017 has bottomed out. At the time, bitcoin was the hottest topic of discussion among office workers to farmers, and from large cities to rural areas.

 Police in the northern province of Son La’s Long Luon Commune have arrested two major drug lords.

VietNamNet Bridge - A fake bachelor’s degree can be obtained in a few days, because the technique of counterfeiting degrees is now very sophisticated. 

VietNamNet Bridge - A life-jacket for motorbike drivers, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has been invented by three young engineers. 

Coastal and riverbank landslides are now a hot topic in the Mekong Delta. In May and June, a series of landslide cases occurred in the delta’s provinces, from Ca Mau, Hau Giang and Can Tho to An Giang, Dong Thap and Vinh Long.

 The electronics industry is a typical example of Vietnam’s success in the development and integration process. From a certain angle, some of the weaknesses present the country’s failure to adapt.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has just asked Facebook to explain why they include the Paracel and Spratly islands on a Chinese map.

 The hot spell in the northern and central regions over the past days will continue until the weekend, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Vietnam tops the 3rd Vinh Long International Table Tennis, which wrapped up on July 1 in the southern province of Vinh Long, with three gold medals in the events of men’s doubles, women’s doubles and men’s singles.

Growth is an inclusive target of Vietnam, which will assist the country in addressing employment, increasing budget collection and reducing public debt, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been receiving big investments from Japan, Singapore and South Korea, and new capital from China. 

VietNamNet Bridge - After many years of using only French makeup, My Ha, 40, from Phu Nhuan district in HCM City has begun using natural products made by Vietnamese enterprises. 

 The central province of Quang Binh hopes to grant investment licences and sign commitments to implement projects with a total investment capital of up to US$4 billion during an upcoming investment promotion conference.

 Pepper growers in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai are facing debt as the price of black pepper has plunged in recent years.

 The recent volatility of global stocks and the outflow of foreign capital have dampened investors’ confidence in Vietnamese shares in the past few weeks and the troubles are forecast to last into the near future.

 As of June 2018, Japanese businesses invested in nearly 240 projects with total registered capital of over 4.2 billion USD in Dong Nai, ranking third among more than 40 countries and territories pouring investment in the southern locality.

 Vietnam’s U19 team struggled to draw with their rival, defending champion U19 Thailand, in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U19 Championship which took placed in Indonesia on July 1.