VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City saw a decrease in the number of strikes last year compared to 2015 thanks to a project on labour relations that began in 2014, 

 At a workshop in HCM City last week, she introduced her company’s herbicide to many scientists, agriculturists and plant protection specialists.

The fourth industrial revolution will present a challenge for Vietnam’s textiles and garment sector within the next five years, according to Mr. Le Tien Truong, CEO of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group.

The first industrial waste power generation plant in Vietnam was officially put into operation at the Nam Son Waste Treatment Complex in Hanoi’s outlying district of Soc Son on April 24.

 The total investment for the urban railway project Hanoi Metro line 2 Nam Thang Long-Tran Hung Dao has been increased by VND16 trillion ($704 million), although the project has yet to be implemented.

 Former US women’s national team footballer Linda Hamilton, who won the World Cup in 1991, and coach Lisa Berg had a training session with Vietnamese female footballers as part of the Sports Envoy programme in Da Nang on April 25.

 Ngo Tri Long, former head of the Institute for Market and Price Research under the Ministry of Finance blamed both Chinese contractors and Vietnamese investors for 12 failing major projects.

 The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in HCM City is a combined exhibition and workshop space.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been witnessing a new wave of investments in hospitals since 2015 after the government called for different sources of funding in the healthcare sector.

 The Secretariat of the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region has announced that Vietnam could be blacklisted due to low-quality of its vessels and a high number of detained vessels overseas.

 At least four people were killed and two injured when a north-south train crashed into a vehicle on Monday afternoon in the southern province of Binh Dinh in Tuy Phuoc District.

 It is very easy to see advertising or leaflets in every corner of HCM City despite of a ban and heavier fines.

For more than a month, manufacturers based in Tan Hong industrial cluster in Hai Duong have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, polluting the section of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system that passes through the region.

The Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra will perform a colourful and multi-faceted concert at the French Cultural Centre under the baton of conductor Kim Xuan Hieu and with soloists Pham Van Hieu and Tran Hien on April 26 & 27. 

Tran Le Quoc Toan brought home a gold medal from the Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships, currently underway in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Minister of Agriculture Nguyen Xuan Cuong on Monday called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories.

 Firms should attach importance to corporate governance to improve their competitiveness and develop sustainably, experts said.

 A month to promote workplace safety and hygiene, the first of its kind, will begin on May 1, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs revealed at a press conference in Hanoi on April 24.

Beauty contests have expanded to include those for married woman. It is tough for older women to retain the looks they had when they were much younger. In this situation, would it be unfair for them to beautify themselves with cosmetic surgery?

Vietnamese athletes won two gold medals yesterday in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix 2017 in Jinhua, a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang Province in eastern China.

A group of Israeli fashion designers from the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art will present their latest collections at the fourth Viet Nam International Fashion Week 2017. 

This year Reunification Day (April 30) and International Labor Day (May 1) fall on a weekend. The domestic tourism market is expected to be busier than ever. 

Vietnam is targeting keeping public debt, comprising central government debt, government-backed loans, and local government debt, below 65 percent of GDP between 2016 and 2018.

 Vietnamese aerobic athletes grabbed one gold, four silver and two bronze medals from the FIG World Cup Series Tokyo International which closed on April 23.

 Shares dropped further in the two local exchanges on April 24 as investors remained cautious about market conditions, pulling blue chips down.