Thirty candidates in the southern region will compete in the semi-final round of the Miss Vietnam 2018 pageant in Binh Dinh Province’s Quy Nhon City.

 The seafood companies should work closer with various ministries such as trade and industry and foreign affairs to overcome trade barriers that hinder Vietnamese seafood exports, a top agriculture official said.

 Remittance inflows to HCM City in the first five months of this year reached US$2 billion, almost double compared to the first quarter of 2018.

 A total of 23,065 automobiles were sold in the domestic market in May, up 9 per cent against the previous month, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) said.

 Seventy-four per cent of software installed on computers in Viet Nam is unlicensed.

 FastGo Viet Nam Company Limited under the NextTech Group launched its ride-hailing service, “FastGo,” here on Tuesday after three years of development.

 Experts have warned enterprises to be more cautious with their US dollar loans amidst a significant rise in the lending and appreciation of the greenback.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has continued net cash injections into the monetary market for three consecutive weeks to support the liquidity of the banking system.

 Despite smartphone manufacturers’ best efforts, there is still a big market in HCM City, often driven by nostalgia, for old feature phones, which is driving their prices to unreasonable levels.

 Sales of fast moving consumer goods have slowed down this year in both urban and rural areas, according to Kantar Worldpanel, a global expert in shoppers’ behaviour.

Last week, acrobatic brothers Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep received a certificate of merit by the Viet Nam Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Nguyen Ngoc Thien for their performance in Britain’s Got Talent 2018.

 Viet Nam imported more than 5.56 million tonnes of oil and petroleum products worth nearly US$3.6 billion in the first five months of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japan crushed Vietnam 3-0 in the third match of Group A of the 2018 Asian LienVietPostBank Women’s U19 Volleyball Championship.

 Japanese-Vietnamese Hanako Kawasaki claimed victory at the National Amateur Golf Open on Monday at the SAM Tuyen Lam Resort in Da Lat.

 HCM City will be showing the opening ceremony and World Cup fixtures on big screens along the pedestrian zone on Nguyen Hue Street, the municipal People’s Committee has announced.

 Former professional footballers Steve McManaman, Lois Saha and Dennis Wise will arrive in Vietnam on Friday to carry out the draw for the Caraboa Cup.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national digital vaccination database currently covers 11,000 immunisation locations in local health communes and hospitals across the country.

 A seminar on lacquer painting will be held by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Hanoi Goethe Institute on June 13.

Ninh Binh Province Inspectorate have announced the wrongdoings of a tourism firm as well as responsibilities of local authorities over the huge walkway that was built illegally in the UNESCO heritage site of Trang An.   

 Hanoi authorities have agreed to allow the hiring out of a state villa returned by a former chairman of the municipal People's Committee.