Young Vietnamese athletes had a successful competition day on April 3, the first day of the Southeast Asian Junior Athletics Championships which is taking place at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.

The grand finale of the Vietnam Top Fashion Models contest has closed in Vung Tau City with the top prizes going to Nguyen Thi Le Nam (No. 017) and Nguyen Sy Hung (No. 054).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Glee Vietnam, a remake of award-winning American comedy-drama TV series Glee, has been nominated for Best Scripted Format at the International Format Awards 2018.

 Hanoi’s 17 buildings violating fire prevention and fighting regulations have been listed again, after thorough fire inspections in the capital’s buildings.

 After Uber sold its Southeast Asian operations to Grab, the ride-hailing market is seeing an interesting phenomenon: insiders want out, while outsiders want in.   

 Foreign investors at state-owned firms are looking to increase their holdings via M&A deals to solidify their footholds in Vietnam.

 Hoang Anh Gia Lai JSC has reported an after-tax profit of $16.3 million in its audited business results, a decrease of $28.95 million compared to the financial statements that the firm previously published.  

 A young businessman has pledged to support a truck driver who faced a large compensation payout for damaging two cars after trying to avoid two girls who had fallen on the street.

 Thousands of customers are complaining about VTVCab suddenly cutting many popular channels including HBO, BBC World, Discovery and Fox Sport starting from April.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A transport official on Monday denied rumours that Hanoi’s prolonged Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project would be delayed for the fifth time till 2021.

The 2017 Vietnam Provincial Government and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI 2017) report was released in April 4 in Hanoi.

Many hydrants in Hanoi do not work while the city lacks water sources for firefighting and measures to tackle high-rise fires.

AVG has paid VND2.5 trillion (US$109.5 million) to MobiFone, a State-owned business under management of the Ministry of Information and Communications, after the two sides cancelled the mutual share transfer agreement on March 12. 

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has asked the Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corporation (Sabeco) to hold an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to review personnel matters.

  Itochu, Japan’s second-largest trading company, has spent some five billion yen (US$46.9 million) to buy an additional 10 per cent equity in Viet Nam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex).

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) last week announced the initiation of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into the import of laminated woven sacks (LWSs) from Viet Nam.

Large areas of pine forest along the Highway 28 in Quang Son commune of Dak G’Long district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have been destroyed due to land encroachment.

 The environmental protection tax increase would make CPI in July rise by 0.27-0.29 per cent from the previous month, said Vu Thi Mai, deputy minister of Finance at the monthly Government meeting held in Ha Noi on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pressure from local media and public has prompted an investigation by ranger authorities into the origin of three large perennial trees found at a plot in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ports in Cat Lai Area in HCM City’s District 9 cannot be expanded because they are surrounded by residential areas just as they were 20 years ago when they had been located in inner districts.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Three pregnant women in the southern province of Tien Giang and another from Bac Lieu Province were given incorrect medicine, and one of them miscarried soon after.

 Heineken will bring Formula 1, one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, to Viet Nam for the first time in May.

 A museum in central Ha Tinh Province has announced the discovery of an incense holder dating back to the 19th century.

 There will be two direct flights weekly from Switzerland to Viet Nam starting November, Federal Councilor of Switzerland Doris Leuthard said on Tuesday when she met Transport Minister Nguyen Van The.