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The central city of Da Nang is working to build a business environment conducive for investors, based on the pillars of hi-tech industry, tourism and sea-based economy.

Many foreign leaders are showing their interest in exploring the local cuisine during their visits to Vietnam, providing good opportunities for the country to promote the image of its culture and people to the international community through national cuisine.

The vaccination campaign has been expanded, which has increased the number of residents that have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and put under health management.

Vietnam spent 2.04 billion USD to import animal feed and raw materials for the production of this kind of commodity in the first five months of this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Through a series of newly-issued regulations and access to the national population database, banks are planning to expand their online money-lending services.

The Management Board of Ben En National Park in the north central province of Thanh Hoa has been working on plans on preserving and developing a number of rare animals with high-economic values in the park in the 2022 – 2024 period, towards conserving rodent species.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) held a ceremony in Hanoi on June 4 to honour the role models in patriotic emulation movements, an activity in celebration of 75 years since then President Ho Chi Minh issued an appeal for patriotic emulation (June 11, 1948).

The northeastern province of Quang Ninh attracted about 7.1 million tourist arrivals in the first five months of this year, 1.7 times higher than the figure of the same period last year, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.

The Hanoi chapter of the Vietnamese Women’s Union (VWU) has freshly organised a festival for 118 local orphans with disadvantaged backgrounds who were adopted by kindhearted mothers within a VWU- initiated programme.

The rapid expansion of foreign food and beverage (F&B) chains in Vietnam was making the domestic market more robust despite the trend of tightening spending in a global downturn.

FPT, Vietnam’s largest IT service provider, and Mila (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) have announced the renewal of their three-year strategic partnership agreement at the recent meeting of their leaders.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his visiting Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on June 4 witnessed the exchange of a number of cooperation agreements between the two countries.

Layoffs could run until the end of 2023 as firms continue to trim their ranks in line with slumping global demand, experts have said.

The total inflows of foreign direct investment into Ho Chi Minh City from early this year to May 20 reached over 1.14 billion USD, down 13.5% annually, reported the municipal Department of Planning and Investment.

The Ministry of Defence has issued a plan to publicise the test operation of no-fly and restricted zones to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ultra-light flying craft.

To welcome a series of new routes including Ho Chi Minh City - Kochi (India) and Ho Chi Minh City - Jakarta (Indonesia), Vietjet is offering passengers tickets priced from 0 VND in its international flight network.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang has said Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son’s attendance at the 2023 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) and official visit to France from June 5-8 would provide an opportunity to reaffirm the common perception of the vision of the bilateral relations and the determination to promote deeper and closer connections between the two countries, particularly in meeting their requirements in the new context.

Vietnam bagged 15 gold medals, ranking second in the tally after Indonesia (23 golds) as of 20:30 on June 4 - the first official competition day of the 12th ASEAN Para Games that is taking place in Cambodia.

Vietnam Register (VR) under the Ministry of Transport (MoT) has recommended car owners to check the certifications of the validate time of their vehicles’ registration certificates and stamps via the website https://giahanxcg.vr.org.vn and only do so when their cars near registration expiry.

Ship 20 of the Naval Region 3’s Brigade 172 anchored in Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia, on June 4 to participate in the 4th Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK), according to the Quan doi Nhan dan newspaper.