Vietnam is suffering from severe plastic bag pollution, as it is among four Asian countries discarding the largest volume of plastic bags, Tien Phong newspaper reports, citing experts from a seminar on June 4.

The Vietnam Blockchain Summit 2018 is scheduled to take place on June 8 in Hanoi with an aim of sharing information and discussing policies for promoting blockchain research and use in digital economy development.

Since May, O Mon river's banks in Thoi Loi area in Thoi An ward, in O Mon district, the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have been eroded thrice, leaving 35 families homeless.

 The Bkav Corporation on June 5 warned that up to 1.2 million computers in Vietnam might have been infected with a destructive virus called W32.XFileUSB that can wipe all data on the users’ USB drive.

 Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Italy’s Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Hanoi on June 5. 

 In urban areas, noise pollution is nothing new and is often neglected as an issue for city dwellers. However, it has severe effects on people’s well being and quality of life.

The draft Law on Cyber Security, which is scheduled to be passed by the 14th National Assembly at its ongoing session, contains some new provisions which raise public concerns. 

 Forbes has predicted that Vietnam is on the path to become a hot spot for IT outsourcing and will soon become a world powerhouse in this field.

Mat Bao Corporation will offer more than 5,000 incentive packages worth US$307,000 to the online business community at the Vietnam Mobile Day to be held in HCM City and Ha Noi this month.

 The Solar Experience Space model, a collaboration of SolarBK and HCM City Science Technology University, will compete in the final of the Smarter Energy Award 2018 – an annual event held in Munich, Germany on June 20-22.

 Dozens of embassies and international organisations marked the World Environment Day (June 5) by signing a Code of Conduct on Combating Plastic Pollution.

 Facebook and Google are not likely to leave Vietnam over the issue of installing servers in the country as they are making bank on Vietnamese users’ demand for their services.

 Hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have been found at Co To beaches in the northern province of Quang Ninh over the recent days.   

 Viettel Group will apply new international roaming rates for Myanmar when it launches its Mytel mobile phone network in that country on June 9.

The HCM City Integrated Circuit Development Programme and investment in minimal fab, a small-scale, low-cost method of manufacturing semi-conductors are vital to making HCM City a smart city, experts have said.

 More than 300 units from 20 countries and territories worldwide have registered to participate in the Vietnam ICT COMM slated for June 7-9 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

 The Vietnam Sea and Island Week was launched in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the local People’s Committee on May 31.

The clause on requiring foreign enterprises to install servers in Vietnam was struck out from the draft Law on Cybercecurity at the on National Assembly session.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications’ Authority of Information Security on Tuesday warned that routers and storages in Viet Nam have been exposed to the VPNFilter virus. 

 Three students winning the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) 2018 in Vietnam were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 30.