The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has proposed to temporarily halt the import of bitcoin mining machines to improve the management of bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions.

 The HCM City Department of Transport has asked for a revision of a taxi development plan to limit the number of taxis in HCM City up to 2025.

 The Government will abolish administrative procedures for issuing investment registration certificates for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects, according to the new governmental Decree 63.

Since May, O Mon river's banks in Thoi Loi area in Thoi An ward, in O Mon district, the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have been eroded thrice, leaving 35 families homeless.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many pilots working for Vietnam Airlines, the national flag air carrier, said they are always under pressure and don’t receive high salaries.

 Although May featured a downtrend for Vietnam’s stock market, market capitalisation still rose sharply and the market still has a good outlook in the long term, according to Chairman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam Tran Van Dung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People’s Superior Court in HCM City yesterday rejected the appeals of 14 of 16 defendants charged with “terrorism against the people’s administration”, after a two-day trial.

The students of HCM City Open University’s foreign languages courses on June 2 translated a classic English novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, into a play and staged it at the Drama Theatre in HCM City’s District 1.

VietNamNet Bridge - Online sellers now are not fighting for profit but for market share, analysts say.

 An “American Hangout” learning space was launched at Can Tho University in the Mekong Delta city of the same name on June 5.

 A number of queries about measures to address child sexual abuse were put to Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung at the question-and-answer (Q&A) session of the 14th National Assembly’s fifth meeting in Hanoi on June 5.

 Mozart’s most famous opera The Magic Flute will be restaged at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on June 9 and 10.

 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has decided to present certificates of merit to acrobatic brothers Giang Quoc Nghiep and Giang Quoc Co for their impressive performance in the 2018 Britain’s Got Talent final.

Vietnamese opera student Ninh Duc Hoang Long has just won the first prize in his category in a Hungarian TV talent show.

On May 29 the State Bank of Viet Nam adjusted the dong-US dollar exchange rate, weakening the Vietnamese currency by VND9 to VND22,605 per dollar, which represented the greenback’s biggest rise so far this year.  

 The trial panel on the medical incident causing eight deaths at the kidney dialysis division of the Hoa Binh General Hospital in 2017 returned the file on the case on June 5, and asked relevant authorities to carry out additional investigations.

Canadian Minister of National Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan talks with VNA on the prospects of Canada-Vietnam defence cooperation and Canada’s commitment to sustain peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region during his visit to Vietnam.

 The Bkav Corporation on June 5 warned that up to 1.2 million computers in Vietnam might have been infected with a destructive virus called W32.XFileUSB that can wipe all data on the users’ USB drive.

 The show “Summer Symphony” is taking place at the Hanoi Opera House on June 5 and 6, bringing together artists from Vietnam and Japan.

 Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Italy’s Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Hanoi on June 5.