VietNamNet Bridge - More foreign investors are attempting to take over Vietnam’s finance companies, which are in a ‘golden development stage’.

 Blockchain is quickly becoming an important tool not just for financial information, but also for managing and recording virtually all types of data, such as medical and other records, identity management, and transaction processing. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bui Danh Lien, Vice Chairman of Ha Noi’s Transport Association talks to Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper on the need for workable policies to reduce traffic congestion in Hanoi.

A festival is held annually in the northern port city of Hai Phong on the 8th day of the second lunar month in memory of female general Le Chan, who is credited with having founded the city nearly 2000 years ago.

Some households in Thach Xa Commune, about 30 kilometers from the capital city of Hanoi, have earned their living by making bamboo dragonflies for more than 20 years. 

 Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong might be released in the first week of May, possibly May 8, according to her lawyers.

Singers and musicians from HCM City have released new productions to commemorate the late musician Trinh Cong Son and to mark his 18th death anniversary on April 1.

Indian Coast Guard Ship, ICGS “VIJIT” commanded by Commandant T Ashish, will pay a four-day goodwill visit to the Vietnamese port of Da Nang from April 1 to 4.

Vietnamese film “Infill and Full set” by Dao Duc Hai won the Best UK Drama award of the recent 2019 Oxford International Short Film Festival (OXISFF).

State-owned and private film studios should work together to produce more art films, experts said at a seminar held last Friday (March 29) in HCM City.

Teams from Russia, Brazil, Belgium, Finland, England, China, Italy and Vietnam will perform at the 2019 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival on the Han River from June 1 to July 7.

Biomedical research by scientists nationwide has led to important findings that could produce new Vietnamese-branded drugs and medical treatments, but commercialisation of research results faces challenges,

The Shah Alam High Court in Selangor state of Malaysia on April 1 sentenced Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, a suspect in the murder of a man holding a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea passport with the name of Kim Chol,

Police in Hanoi are planning to punish 12 people for conning people into using illegal taxis at Noi Bai International Airport.

More than 130 people were arrested early Sunday morning when police raided a suspected gambling den in Village 76 in Ha Bau Commune, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) began a national population and housing census on April 1 to evaluate national targets and indicators of sustainable development.

A school principle in the northern province of Hung Yen has been suspended following an assault on a young female student by a gang of classmates.

About 492,000kWh of electricity, equivalent to 917 million VND (over 39,500 USD), was saved in Vietnam during the Earth Hour, when lights were turned off for one hour from 8:30pm on March 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 15th International Travel Expo (ITE) will take place on September 5-7 in HCM City to boost the tourism industry in Mekong Delta region.

The ruling of the HCMC People’s Court in the divorce case between Dang Le Nguyen Vu and his wife has stoked controversy as the court’s decision asking Thao to sell all her shares in the company to Vu supposedly violates the Law on Enterprises.

 The Vietnamese government should increase the foreign ownership ratio in local banks to facilitate the institutions to lure luring capital and governance experiences from prestigious foreign banks, experts proposed.

 Traffickers carry drug from the Golden Triangle through Laos to Vietnam and from Latin America to the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tuan Anh, 36, may never forget the hard time he went through as a student before he became a director of a company in Japan.

 With global firms rushing into Vietnam in the era of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, there is an urgent need for the country to develop its own supporting industries.

 Benefits from the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership via guidelines on origin of materials are attracting more and more overseas investment in Vietnam’s apparel and footwear sectors.