VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) earlier this year unexpectedly refused to attend an event honoring content creators held in HCM City. 

 Foreign investors already active in the Vietnamese power sector are looking to expand their footprints in the country to create a more stable power supply in the near future, with increased focus on renewable energy.

The central coastal region is facing more and more landslides, with many villages in danger of disappearing, though hundreds of billions of dong from the state budget have been used to save them. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – In U Minh District in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, there is a popular job called “gac keo ong” which literally means ’the guard of honey bees hives’.

A number of developments are likely to influence the viability of FDI into Vietnam in the years ahead.

 Vietnam is among the top countries around the world for the highest percentage of women in the labour force, at 72%, with female workers accounting for 48.4% of the total labour force, making an invaluable contribution to national development.

PM receives J.P. Morgan Chase's chairman, Senior leaders meet with voters ahead of National Assembly session, Standing Vice Chairwoman meets voters in Son La, Pocketbooks of Communist Party Manifesto introduced to public

 Total import-export revenue in the first four months of 2018 is estimated at US$144.13 billion, up 14.4% year on year, according to the General Department of Viet Nam Customs.

 The Government and the PM issued 28 legal documents, including 19 Decrees and nine Decisions in March 2018. 

 Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh asked for reviewing approved 26 projects using foreign loans in period 2017-2018 which are not listed in the mid-term public investment plan.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed reducing and simplifying 193 business condition lines in seven areas of insurance, stocks, price, customs, auditing, finance-banking and tax. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Finance’s (MOF) recent proposals on raising many kinds of taxes and fees have been facing strong opposition from the public.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam beat Chinese Taipei 1-0 in the first match of Group B of the AFC Women’s Futsal Championship on May 2.

The international conference ‘Science for Development’ will be held in Quy Nhon City of Binh Dinh Province from May 9-10 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Rencontres du Vietnam. 

 Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down.

 VNG Corporation has just announced that it discovered a post on an international forum with the confidential information on 160 million Zing ID accounts on April 26.

 The 4th FabLab Asia Network Conference (FAN4) opened yesterday, May 2, in Ho Chi Minh City with the theme ‘Co-create a better world’.

Police in Nghe An announced a 31 year old Bui Van Ba who was seen riding a motorcycle with his feet in a video that went viral on social media over the weekend received an administrative fine of VND7,150,000 ($314).

The delegation of the EU to Vietnam will organize a special concert to celebrate the Europe day, on May 13 at the HCMC Opera House, presenting the talented Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy.

The northern province of Quang Ninh has been ranked number one for administrative reform in 2017, according to a survey carried out by Vietnam’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA).

 The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has announced that there are more than 925,000 students that have registered to sit the high school graduation and college entrance exams.

 At least 76 people have died and scores more were injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

 This is the third time that the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has abolished a range of troublesome administrative procedures, with 54 procedures in ten areas eliminated and streamlined.

Nguyen Danh Huy, general director of the transport ministry’s Public-Private Partnership Investment Project Management Department, speaks to Tuoi tre newspaper about measures to attract investors to participate in BOT projects.

 On Wednesday, 104-year-old scientist David Goodall bid farewell to his home in Australia to fly across the world to end his life.