Nearly 80 households set up tents to prevent the operations of Giang Sơn Manufacture, Trade and Services Joint-Stock Company’s asphalt mixing station on Monday night.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment yesterday afternoon put into operation an environmental surveillance station to supervise all waste discharge sources from Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company (FHS).

VietNamNet Bridge – Oppo and Samsung are dominating the cheap smartphone segment (priced less than VND4 million or $180), which previously belonged to Nokia and other big names.

Vo Kim Cu, former Party Secretary and Chairman of Ha Tinh on Sunday talked with the press about the 70-year license granted for Formosa Ha Tinh steel after NA chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said she would meet and urge him to talk to the press.

In spite of being taken over by the domestic investor after the withdrawal of its foreign investors, the fate of $278-million Da Nang Information Technology Park (IT park) remains uncertain.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been stepping up the inspection at of environmental pollution “hot spots” in the northern provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang, and the central city of Da Nang.

A special taskforce has been established to supervise the implementation of commitments to deal with consequences of the environmental disaster in central Vietnam, caused by Ha Tinh Formosa Steel in April, over a period ofthree years.

 The Ministry of Defence's Command of Border Guard officially launched its one-stop portal to link with the Viet Nam National Single Window (VNSW) on Thursday.

 With people spending more time online, the internet and connected devices can be a cause of family tension, a new research from Kaspersky Lab and iconKids &Youth has found.

Graduating from Jean-Jacques Rousseau School in Sai Gon, the then 18-year-old Trinh Xuan Thuan decided to pursue the study of natural science despite his aptitude for literature.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications has proposed to invest VND8,000 billion ($363 million) into a target program on information technology in 2016-2020.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is asking for the government’s proposal to stop the development of Hong Kong-based Lee&Man Paper Group’s $348 million pulp mill due to concerns over environmental pollution.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is expected to continue the shift of investment flows into industries of high pollution risk in Vietnam like textile-dying, paper, iron and steel.

 Mobile World Investment Corp (MWG), better known as The Gioi Di Dong, is looking to increase the number of its Dien May Xanh electronics and home appliances stores nationwide to 400 next year.

 Ha Tinh Province’s authority violated regulations by granting the Taiwanese-owned Formosa company a 70-year land lease, Deputy Government Inspector General Ngo Van Khanh said at a regular press conference yesterday.

 Intensifying the protection of forests in the Central Highlands from encroachment by hydro power plants, illegal deforestation and unplanned agricultural development would be the key to preserving water in this drought hit region, experts have said.

Quang Nam’s authorities are expanding an investigation into the illegal logging of a large amount of Fujian cypress in the border area adjacent to Laos.

 The Vietnamese IT industry has seen rapid development from 2010 to 2015, bringing revenue of US$7.6 billion in 2010 to $49.5 billion in 2015, or seven times as much as 2010.

A HCMC deputy said that the establishment of an interim committee to monitor Taiwanese-invested Hung Nghiep Formosa Steel, after it caused the recent environmental disaster to four coastal provinces in central Vietnam, is necessary.

 Digiworld Joint Stock Company halved its after-tax profit target from VND140 billion (US$6.2 million) to VND65 billion for this year.