As many as 2,000 children in Vietnam died every year from drowning, the highest rate in South East Asia and 10 times higher than developed countries.

 Building on the success of the forum “Connecting Vietnamese Startups in the US and Viet Nam” held in San Francisco last December, HCM City hosted a similar event on June 26-27 to bring together Vietnamese startups at home and abroad.

The Ministry of Health has yet to implement a Government decision issued in May 2017 to scrap or amend regulations that require salt used in processed food to be fortified with iodine and wheat flour with iron and zinc.

 The General Department of Customs has asked localities to tighten imports of scrap into Viet Nam.

Vietnamese PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 27 met with UNIDO Director Li Yong and UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner in Da Nang City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has strongly committed to reducing plastic waste country-wide and in the long term, working to eliminate the issue all together.

VietNamNet Bridge - The mobile payment service market in Vietnam has yet to enter a boom period, but many big players are present.

The 6th Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly opened in Da Nang city on June 27. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a speech at the event's opening session.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa have approved a plan to excavate an ancient citadel with unique architecture in Southeast Asia.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese diva My Linh is set to embark on her first concert tour, 12 years after her My Linh Tour 06 in 2006.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) thrashed Quang Ninh Coal 4-0 in the 16th round of the V-League yesterday.

 Vietnamese artist Tran Thi Thanh Nhan, better known as Ly Nha Ky, was named the Honorary Consul of Romania in Ho Chi Minh City at a ceremony held in the city on June 26.

 A person with the influenza virus A/H1N1 recently died after two days of treatment at the Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, becoming the second fatality of swine flu at the hospital and the third in the city. 

Violating copyright is a challenge to the development of the country’s music industry. Composer Dinh Trung Can, general director of the Viet Nam Centre for Protecting Music Copyright (VCPMC), 

 Seagate Technology on Monday announced a partnership with CyArk, to digitally preserve Tu Duc Tomb and An Dinh Palace in the Complex of Hue Monuments in central Hue City.

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnamese banks are trying to collect fee from clients, e-wallet service providers are not charging fees, or collecting low fees to lure more users, analysts say.

 Vietnamese shares fell yesterday after two consecutive rising sessions as investors worried about a potential trade war between China and the US, which shook global markets.

 PV Power will shift its listing from the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) to the HCM Stock Exchange by the end of this year, the company announced in its first shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 Yeah1 Group Corporation listed more than 27.36 million of its shares on the HCM Stock Exchange on June 26, becoming the first ever entertainment company to list.

 Viet Nam’s total import and export turnover this year reached an estimated US$204.72 billion by June 15, up 13.2 per cent over the same period last year, the General Department of Customs reported.