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The sales of motorbikes in Vietnam have risen despite suggested motorbike bans for Hanoi and HCM City.

Around 7.3 million international tourists visited Vietnam between January and May this year, up 8.8% on-year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Close to 54,000 enterprises have registered to begin operations in the first five months of 2019, up 3.2 percent on-year, also the highest number recorded in the period in the past five years.

Vietnam Lottery Company is reporting slow sales with many agents struggling to survive.

Vietnam's economy is expected to surpass Singapore by 2029, according to a report by Singapore-based DBS Bank.

Vietnam was one of the fastest-growing sources of American imports from Asia last quarter, and could potentially overtake the U.K. as a bigger supplier to the U.S. if it keeps up that pace, according to the Bloomberg.com.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in May increased by 0.65 percent from the previous month, reported the city Statistics Office.

Vietnam has seen more investment from China as the trade war between China and the US continues.

Part of Do Son Beach in the northern city of Haiphong has been still illegally leased to many households despite a local authority ban.

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Vietnamese firms invested 183 million USD in overseas projects in the first five months of this year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Red-claw crayfish are still being sold in HCM City despite the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s ban.

The first air route between the two popular destinations of central Da Nang city and Phu Quoc Island off Vietnam’s southern coast has been launched by low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific.

The inflow of foreign direct investment pledged to Vietnam in the first five months of this year hit a four-year high of 16.74 billion USD, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Many seafood restaurants by the central city of Danang’s beach have been found to be illegally built.

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index edged up at the open on Monday as investors awaited US-Japan summit talks later in the day.

The Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko (SDK), headquartered in Tokyo, will invest $68 million in building a new can manufacturing factory in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province.

Policies to develop the industrial sector will be the key to keeping Vietnam’s out of the middle income trap, experts said at a workshop in Hanoi on May 23.

The authorities in Hanoi are rushing to add more accommodation as demand increases.