Vietnam National University, Hanoi and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) will co-host the Hanoi Forum 2018, an international academic conference on climate change response and sustainable development.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has recently made several requests regarding the organisation of the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2018 (ABU Robocon 2018), scheduled for August 26 in the northern province of Ninh Binh. 

 The Ministry of Information and Communications has just asked Facebook to explain why they include the Paracel and Spratly islands on a Chinese map.

 A rare gibbon illegally kept by a man in Ho Chi Minh City has been transferred to Cat Tien National Forest.

 Becoming a wildlife conservationist to save species such as bears, rhinos and elephants from illegal trade was Nguyen Thi Thu Trang’s childhood dream. And today, she is living it.

Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator and Vice Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group at the GEF spoke about the 6th Global Environment Facility Assembly held in Da Nang recently.

 As Hanoi farmers have finished harvesting rice, people living in suburban areas have complained about the smoke in the air caused by the burning of straw fields.

 A bear protection exhibition was kicked off in Hanoi on June 30, in the presence of the World Animal Protection (WAP) Ambassador - Thai singer and actor Tono Pakin Kumwilaisuk, to raise public awareness of the importance of bear protection.

Preventing Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks on national critical information infrastructure was the main topic of a seminar and drill on cyber security in Da Nang on June 29.

  The southernmost province of Ca Mau plans to build 2,100 metres of sea embankments over the next three months to protect dykes at high risk of erosion.

 The sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) concluded on June 28 in the central city of Da Nang with 29 countries pledging to provide 4.1 billion USD for the next four years for numerous global environment-related programmes.

 The latest report from the Pew Research Centre in the US shows that smartphone usage in many countries has increased significantly, including Viet Nam.

 The protective forest in Quang Ninh Province has been destroyed for a long time while local authorities have claimed they are unaware of the situation.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kien Giang Province held a joint conference about plastic waste on June 27 with World Wide Fund for Nature-Vietnam.    

 The Ambassador for the World Animal Protection (WAP), Thai singer and actor Tono Pakin Kumwilaisuk is set to come to Vietnam to attend a bear protection exhibition in Hanoi on June 30.

UN Habitat is willing to cooperate with Vietnam in urgent issues such as plastic waste and preservation of ancient cities, said Maimunah Mohd Sharif, UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Habitat.

Mobile number portability (MNP) will create a new battlefield for domestic mobile operators from as early as 2019, putting even more emphasis on service quality and network stability. 

 Statistics show that Vietnamese consumers use only about 1.9GB of cellular data on average each month, much lower than the regional countries of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore where the amounts come in between 4.7GB and 8.5GB.

JICA has worked with the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to produce a draft decree guiding the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, participants at a dialogue heard on June 24.

Environment police in central Ha Tinh Province discovered the illegal transport of 37 rare, wild animals from Laos to neighboring Nghe An Province during the weekend.