The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) said that land price surge in suburban districts in late 2017 to May, 2018 has cooled down.

 Police detained a man on June 21 who was suspected of throwing explosives into a police station in HCM City.    

The Vietnam General Department of State Reserves organised a ceremony in Hai Phong on June 21, to present 5,000 tonnes of rice and gifts to the people of Cuba.

 Two Vietnamese workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a truck carrying them overturned in Laos on Thursday.

 Despite the current increasing foreign investment inflows, merged and acquired banks will consider selling stakes to foreign investors after completing the restructuring to up the attractiveness of sales, bank officials said.

 More and more Russian agricultural products are finding their way into the Vietnamese market, according to the Russian Export Centre in Vietnam.

 Vietnam and Azerbaijan agreed to maintain meetings of their Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technological Cooperation to bolster bilateral collaboration.

Vietnam has recently joined the group of rice bran oil-producing countries, with a modest output, but as one of the largest rice exporters in the world, the country has great potential for developing this industry. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s pepper industry is sustaining a blow in the face of a surplus in the world market.

 Many streets in Hanoi are still covered by the tangled mess of overhead power lines, phone and television cables, posing latent dangers for local residents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of containers of plastics and scrap materials are stuck at ports, causing problems for government agencies. 

The police on June 21 began proceeding procedures against four people accused of abusing position and power to appropriate assets in three petroleum companies under PetroVietnam.

 Hidenori Ushio from Japan sent a letter of thanks to the Criminal Police Office of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on June 21 for recovering his missing assets. 

 Laos will use Blockchain technology developed by a Vietnamese company for the e-governance use, becoming the third country globally after Estonia and Dubai using the technology in this area.

 Two men riding a motorbike have been suspected of throwing explosives into a police station in HCM City on June 20, injuring a police officer.

 The groundbreaking ceremony of Dau Tieng 1 and Dau Tieng 2 solar power plants, worth VND9,100 billion will be held on June 23 in the southern province of Tay Ninh.

Although FDI enterprises are receiving more investment incentives than domestic businesses, tax payments by the FDI sector are much lower, the 2018 Vietnam Business Development Forum heard in Hanoi on June 19.

 Mytel, Viettel’s mobile operator in Myanmar, has signed with more than one million subscribers in just 10 days since it officially began operations.

Tax deductions, land allocation programmes and the establishment of appropriate credit lines along with a comprehensive legal framework are among the tasks ordered by PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc to effectively implement the Law on Support for SMEs.

 The HCMC government has spent trillions of Vietnamese dong on flood control, but its efforts have yet to pay off. More effective solutions are needed to cope with the situation, experts said at a meeting in HCMC on June 20.