Several tourism enterprises were surprised by a ban on kayak service issued by Halong City with effect from April 1 and some of them have yet to inform customers of this sudden change although the tours with kayak service have already been sold.

 Many travel companies in HCMC yesterday announced short day tours for coming Hung Kings Anniversary as workers will have only one day off on Thursday (April 6) this year.

Vietnamese and foreign cakes will be displayed in a cake festival held in Can Tho city,  said director of the Can Tho Trade, Investment Promotion and Exhibition Center Nguyen Khanh Tung.

 Authority in the northern province of Quang Ninh revoked business license and certificates of shops which violated regulation.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Top 10 socio-economic indicators in Q1, 2017 at the Government’s regular meeting for March.

 A proposal to increase the number of electric cars to boost Hanoi’s tourism has been rejected by the capital city’s People’s Committee.

 Although Vietnamese apparel company movement toward the stock market is an inevitable trend in a market economy, only 30 businesses of the sector’s total of 6,000 have listed so far.

Nikkei Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index notes continued monthly improvement in manufacturing sector.

 More people are choosing to travel abroad thanks to cheap prices and greater interest in exploring other countries.

  Thousands of people in HCM City's District 10 are risking their life in two old deteriorating apartment buildings that may collapse at any time. 

 AirAsia Bhd., the low-cost carrier headed by Malaysian tycoon Tony Fernandes, plans to start a Vietnamese carrier in a local partnership, as cheap fares and rising incomes fuel a travel surge in the Southeast Asian nation.

 Dozens of traders in Ha Tinh Province are facing huge losses as hundreds of tonnes of jellyfish cannot be sold due to the mass fish deaths caused by the Formosa pollution incident.

 The central bank is gradually introducing a raft of regulations to enforce laws that require local lenders to incorporate environmental and social risk management into their lending criteria.

In front of the headquarter of the Ha Noi Department of Planning and Architecture on Trang Thi Street, dozens of motorbikes and cars stop, wait for a while, look around, hoping against hope that by some miracle a parking space will materialise.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. 

 Indonesian rescuers, joined by police and soldiers, found one body and continued to look for 28 other people feared to be buried after a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Indonesia's Java island,

 The project to expand T3 and T4 terminals of Tan Son Nhat International Airport has lured many big investors from all over the country.

 Petrolimex promised that its stock price will not be lower than VND39,000 ($1.7) per share.Besides, it will not divest entirely from its insurance, finance, and banking arms.

 Following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s order to stop the illegal use of injected substances in shrimp exports, authorities in the Mekong Delta have begun several measures to end the practice by the end of next year.

 Despite a drop in total dealflow, 2016 was a vibrant investment year for Vietnamese startups, according to a recent Topica Founder Institute (TFI) report.

 Women from across the country have been invited to take part in Miss Ocean Vietnam 2017, an event to encourage environmental protection.

 Hoang Le Kha High School of Tay Ninh Province and Tran Dai Nghia and Mac Dinh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot).

 The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bac Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials.

  The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve address number chaos in the city.