The banking sector is optimistic about its growth prospect in 2018 as all of surveyed banks expect the growth rate to be more than 10 percent.

 The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) in coordination with foreign organisations is carrying out a cooperation programme to prevent child drowning, a serious problem in Vietnam.

 Police of Vietnam and China will conduct a joint special operation to combat human trafficking along the shared border from July 1 to September 30, heard a conference on June 27.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his hope that President of the World Economic Forum Borge Brende will create favourable conditions for Vietnam to promote its images and role as the host of the WEF on ASEAN 2018.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and World Economic Forum President Borge Brende co-chaired a press conference on the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Hanoi on June 27.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in northern Bac Ninh Province are planning to compile a dossier on the Vietnamese folk art of Dong Ho painting in a bid to secure UNESCO recognition.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) secured their fourth win yesterday after beating Sai Gon FC 3-2 in the 16th round of the V.League 1.

The capital city of Hanoi has created favourable conditions for luring investment in infrastructure under the build-transfer (BT) mode, but municipal authorities require that BT investments be transparent and comply with the law.

High transportation, packaging and radiation fees all are pushing up prices of fruit, weakening the competitiveness of Vietnam’s fruit in the world market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mass fish deaths along rivers in the southernmost province of Ca Mau have recurred in Dam Doi District, the local People’s Committee reported yesterday.

 Real estate developer Nomura Real Estate Asia Pte., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nomura Real Estate Holdings, has completed the purchase of a 24 per cent stake in Sun Wah Tower where 85 per cent of the floor area is hired by foreign investors.

Besides calling for capital in the form of public-private partnership (PPP), HCM City is deploying multiple experimental investment models to mobilise private capital to invest in medical projects.  

 The ’Water is Life’ exhibition will open on July 7 at 7:30 pm at L’Usine on 151/5 Dong Khoi St in HCM City’s District 1.

Cinema Space of The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will screen some ‘mind-bending’ films every Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

 A “safari” exhibition featuring origami wildlife has opened on Book Street in downtown HCM City in District 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has not recorded any mutations of the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus, according to Dr Nguyen Thanh Truong from HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four people died after being electrocuted while installing telecommunications pylons in the central province of Nghe An.

 Many civil servants have apparently been seen with partners who they aren’t married to.

 The Lotus Festival will take place from June 29 to July 1 at Hue High School in the central city of Hue.