In Marianne Smolska’s new series entitled Phu Du (Ephemeral), delicate monochrome motifs of skulls, wilted flowers, brambles, roots and chrysalises intertwine with embroidery on handmade Lao and Vietnamese paper.

 Italian opera singers will perform with the Vietnamese Sun Symphony tonight at the Hanoi Opera House.

 A plane on the way from Hanoi to Da Lat City had to make an emergency landing at Da Nang International Airport as a male passenger fainted at 10,000m in the air.

 HCM City’s Party Committee’s Standing Board yesterday proposed disciplining Tat Thanh Cang, Politburo member and deputy secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, for violations related to the transfer of Phuoc Kien residential area.

 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera extolled Vietnam’s impressive economic accomplishments in recent years while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Nguyen Ngoc Son in Santiago on June 4.

 The High-level People’s Court in Hanoi on June 4 upheld the sentences for four defendants found guilty of “trying to overthrow the people’s administration” at trial two months ago.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Greek Ambassador to Vietnam Ioannis E. Raptakis have shared the view that Vietnam and Greece should strengthen coordination in order to increase their two-way trade rapidly. 

Vietnam always supports and creates favorable conditions for defence ministries of Vietnam and the RoK to foster their affiliation, contributing to diversifying and deepening the strategic partnership between the two countries.

 The central city’s investment promotion agency (IPA) has asked a group of investors for a detailed plan of their proposals to develop an artificial island resort project off the coast of Da Nang.

 The central province of Quang Binh has approved a list of 48 projects calling for investment for the 2018-2020 period, with an expected amount of up to over 50 trillion VND (2.2 billion USD).

 Vietnam has not recorded any Ebola infections to date, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Dang Quang Tan has announced. 

 The Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is scheduled to carry out its initial public offering (IPO) in August, according to the firm’s latest equitisation plan recently submitted to the Prime Minister for approval.

 Vietnam is emerging as a country with great potential to develop digital economy, as it has more than 58 million internet users out of its 90 million people and the over 125 million mobile subscribers.

 About 5,000 local and foreign runners will participate in the 2018 Manulife Da Nang International Marathon – one of the top marathon events in Southeast Asia – along the coastline of the central city of August 12.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed his willingness to listen with high responsibility to opinions of NA deputies on the proposal of land lease of 99 years in the draft law on special administrative-economic units.

The Envoy’s Journey to China of the Nguyen Huy family in Ha Tinh has just been listed as one of documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific under UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. 

 More than 1.16 billion shares of the Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) coded TCB were officially listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on June 4.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan showed its hope that the case related to the murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl last year will be handled strictly and a proper sentence will be given to the murderer.

 The High-level People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on June 4 began hearing an appeal on a terrorism plot targeting Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

 The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) rose for the third day, gaining a total of 65.28 points after three transactions to settle at 1,013.78 points on June 4.