Vietnam is deemed highly likely to curb its inflation below 4 percent in 2019, experts said at a seminar in Hanoi on January 3, which focused on national market and price movements during 2018 and forecasts for 2019. 

 Vietnam will lack from 70,000 to 90,000 information and technology (IT) workers this year despite increasing salary and welfare, according to a TopDev, a recruitment network and ecosystem in mobile and IT, reports on the IT market in Vietnam.

 Hanoi will organize a number of cultural and artistic activities to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which lasts from February 5-7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will hold a city walk to Quan Thanh Temple and nearby Truuc Bach Lake and Ngu Xa Islet on Saturday in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - Market analysis reports all show a high two-digit growth rate for consumers over 50, but domestic manufacturers continue to ignore the market. 

While boosting its international integration via engaging in various free trade agreements, Vietnam is also speeding up the equitisation of state-owned enterprises to lure more private investment.

Hồ Chí Minh Trail listed as typical national heritage, Footballer and model share start-up success stories, TPD screens family film ‘Big Fish’, Bilingual film shows Hùng Temple and Vietnamese religious beliefs

 The Government has issued measures to boost non-cash payment methods in the country this year.

 Saigon Heat were defeated on Wednesday by Westports Malaysia Dragons by a score of 84-82 in their first match of the year in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).

 The Investigative Police Agency of southern Long An Province has decided to start criminal proceedings against a truck driver following Wednesday’s deadly crash in the province’s Ben Luc District.

 Passengers on Hanoi-Nanning int’l train sharply increase, TED to hold talks on Vietnam’s development, Deputy PM directs settlement of deadly traffic accident in Long An, Hanoi launches school milk programme

Public security forces urged to uphold core role in national security maintenance, Kien Giang intensifies connections with Cambodian localities, Deputy PM urges promoting role of elderly

The Government’s Resolution No.19/NQ-CP has brought about remarkable improvements in business environment and national competitive capacity.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Projects to prepare for natural disasters and respond to climate change will be further enhanced this year, according to instructions from the National Committee for Natural Calamity Prevention.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sketches of Soviet-style apartment blocks and old streets of Hanoi are on display in the capital.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s digital economy is promising, with value expected to reach $33 billion by 2025, according to the e-Conomy SEA 2018 Report released by Google and Temasek.

At Hai Phong Children’s Palace in Hong Bang District, Hai Phong City on a winter afternoon, children in singing class practice ‘Hiragana’, a song on the Japanese alphabet, under the guidance of teacher Kawakami Mayuko.

 The merger is part of a series of measures to develop Vietnam’s stock market.

 The stock market continued to be an efficient capital mobilization channel for Vietnam’s economic development.

 A ceremony has been held in south-central Khanh Hoa province to begin its hosting of National Tourism Year 2019.

 VietNamNet Bridge – InterContinental Hanoi Landmark72 will present an exhibition of watercolour paintings by artist Le Ngoc Quynh on Friday.

Vietnam’s solar power plants are facing a crisis in consumption of their electricity because there has not been synchronous development of power transmission infrastructure or a suitable operation mechanism. 

 The Vietnamese manufacturing sector continued to record solid growth in December, helping the country show the strongest upturn in ASEAN during the last month of 2018.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has issued a circular to allow credit institutions and foreign bank branches to extend loans in foreign currencies to some borrowers in 2019, rather than cutting them off at the end of last year as planned.