Pavements in HCM City’s District 1 have now been largely cleared of obstacles.

HCM City might not achieve its target of buying more than 800 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses by the end of the year, according to the Public Transport Management and Operation Centre.

Last Friday, the principal of a public kindergarten in Lao Cai Province was suspended on charges of mistreating a four-year-old boy enrolled at the school.

HCM City has agreed to the widening of the road in certain sections by four to six metres only, and has approved adjustments to four of 21 other proposed road-widening projects in District 10.  

 A woman in Long Bien District, Hanoi has used thousands of recycled plastic bottles to build a small house and raise people's awareness about environmental protection.

 Hundreds of enterprises and tourism authorities from 25 countries and territories will join with Vietnam at the 5th Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM Hanoi 2017) in Hanoi. 

 Vietnam has recorded a trade deficit of nearly $2 billion so far this year following the trade surplus of $2.7 billion in 2016.

 Danang City has asked the investor of Tien Sa eco-tourism resort to halt the project as the constructions are being conducted without licence.

 The family of the Vietnamese nine-year-old girl who was recently found dead in Japan said that they are facing language and legal difficulties with Japanese agencies.

 Many foreign tourists visiting Hanoi complain about being harassed by local street vendors.

 There is great potential for organic food production in Viet Nam, but the industry faces a number of challenges, experts said.

Mergers and acquisitions activities in the banking sector in the past two years seem to have cooled down, and without the right policies that would solve major bottlenecks in the process of buying banks, it is unlikely to pick up soon.

 The proposal on the application of Euro 4 emission standards as of March 31, 2017 made by the Ministry of Transport may become a barrier to domestic automakers, while promoting imported products.

 The Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) will list its shares coded PLX on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) some time between April 18 and 21.

 The Management Board of the Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon High-tech Park on March 29 handed over an investment licence to the Tay San Gon (Western Sai Gon) Vocational College to construct a 25-million-USD technology transfer centre in the city. 

 Consumer price index (CPI) in the first quarter of 2017 increased by 4.96 percent year on year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 Hundreds of photos and items on Hung King worshipping rituals and over 500 antiquities from the era of the Hung Kings to the 19th century are on display at Hung Vuong Museum in Viet Tri city, the northern province of Phu Tho.

 Five Vietnamese athletes will take part in the SK Telecom Fencing Grand Prix men’s and women’s sabre in Seoul, the Republic of Korea from March 31-April 1.

 The number of Vietnamese workers holding college and university degrees or higher accounted for 21.39 percent of the labour force in the last quarter of 2016, up 0.41 percentage point from a quarter earlier and 1.19 percentage points year on year.

 The Ho Chi Minh City has received the first-class Development Order of the Lao State for its contributions to Vientiane capital’s construction and development cause. 

 The Royal Cambodian Army (RCA) on March 29 held a ceremony marking the opening of the headquarters of the RCA’s Armour-Tank Command, which was built with funding by Vietnam’s Ministry of Defence.

 Vietnam is willing to coordinate with Japan in ensuring information security, Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan told Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Sanae Takaichi. 

 Representatives of the Vietnam Embassy in Malaysia made a consular visit of Doan Thi Huong, a suspect in the death of Democratic People’s Republic of Korean citizen Kim Chol, at the Kajang prison on March 29.

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 President Tran Dai Quang told President of the Swiss Council of States Ivo Bischofberger that Vietnam always attaches great importance to reinforcing and promoting the sound relationship with Switzerland during their meeting in Hanoi on March 29.