Top lawmakers on June 7 urged for sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic and mountainous areas and the tackling of child abuse to be given priority in the National Assembly’s action programme next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam national football team will have three friendly matches in South Korea to prepare for the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Cup 2018.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City seeks to cut air pollution caused by vehicles by 70 per cent under a five-year plan that began in 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Tennis Federation will host two International Tennis Federation (ITF) tennis tournaments from October 22 to November 4 this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese athlete Vu Thi Ngoc Ha won a gold medal in the triple jump yesterday at the 2018 Asian Indoor Atheletics Championship, being held in Gifu City of Japan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singers are doing cover versions of popular songs and offering them for free on YouTube.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many people sneered when he opened his first co-working space on Trang Thi Street in Hanoi. Few believed the concept, new and “odd” at that time, could succeed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Management Board of the Nam Kar Natural Conservation Centre in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has decided to take disciplinary action against four forest rangers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s administrative reforms are delivering results and there will be more of the same, city authorities have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese universities are among the top 1,000 universities in the world, according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks to Reuters News Agency about how Vietnam benefits from and contributes to international exchange at multilateral forums on the occasion of the G7 outreach meeting

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-two documentaries will be screened during the European - Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival from tomorrow to June 17 in Hanoi and HCM City.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau’s People’s Committee has fined Pomina Steel VND4.8 billion (US$210,500) over 17 environmental violations committed by two subsidiaries over the last two years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 150 Japanese and Vietnamese artistes will perform at a concert tonight (June 6) at the Ha Noi Opera House, featuring Beethoven masterpieces and contemporary dance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The VietFootball Company has launched the first edition of the VietFootball Cup 2018 (HL1-S3) in the capital city of Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trong Tuan and Pham Nguyen Quoc Trung, 12, will represent Vietnam at the sixth Gazprom Football for Friendship International Programme in Russia on June 11.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All secondary and high schools in the country will offer professional career counselling to students that would match employment demands of local businesses by 2025, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Railways (VNR) has asked railway companies to install cameras at level-crossing barriers to improve the safety of pedestrians.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s Department of Home Affairs has outlined a new policy on the prevention and handling of child abuse cases which includes new hotlines for victims and their families.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Summer has come along with heavy downpour, and with each bout of torrential rain parts of the city remain flooded for hours.