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3 Australian exporters get the axe following brutal images of animal cruelty in Vietnam.

The United Nations pledges to work with the Vietnamese government to provide care and protection for the country’s at-risk children - a message delivered by Marta Santos Pais, special representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children during her recent three-day visit to Vietnam.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urged government agencies to speed up the disbursement of state budget for public investment projects, Vietnamese government portal reported yesterday.

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Jailed English child abuser Gary Glitter has been accused of funneling money to a Vietnamese ex-prostitute to help cover up his crimes committed in Vietnam, according to The Sun.

Poor planning and fragmented production cycle with mushrooming impromptu processing plants are jeopardizing the quality of Vietnamese tea products while making it hard for responsible growers to strive.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has requested for an establishment of a start-up stock market through the collaboration between state agencies and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).

Vietnam has set out a new goal in welfare development, aiming for 90 percent of the population to have health insurance by 2020, according to the government portal.

Japanese Prime Minister shares Vietnam's concern over the East Sea issue and has committed to continue providing ODA and financial assistance in climate change and infrastructure to Vietnam, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam’s signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) will make the country deal with the serious problem of corruption and improve institutional reforms, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh in a discussion with Virginia Foote, chairwoman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.

Vietnam and the U.S. have laid out the future for their cooperation in politics, diplomacy, trade, defense, people-to-people ties, human rights, legal reform and maritime security in Vietnam's East Sea during Obama's visit in Hanoi. 

The vote counting process for today’s parliamentary election has started immediately after the voting time ended at 7 p.m., according to the government news portal. Preliminary reports show voter turnout of 95.84 percent. 

The Vietnamese government approved the establishment of the Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) yesterday, the country’s first American-style nonprofit private university. U.S. President Obama is scheduled to open the university next week.

Obama will address serious tensions in South China Sea (Vietnam's East Sea) to ensure rights of all parties and international law are respected and reduce tensions in his first trip to Vietnam this month, said a high-ranking U.S. official.   

Vietnam has about 12,000 millionaires with $1 million or more in net assets, a number which has increased by 354 percent in 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, according to the Wealth Report 2016 surveyed by Knight Frank, one of the world's largest global property consultancies.