VietNamNet Bridge - Drought, saline intrusion and unmethodical business plans all have dealt a blow on enterprises, leaving them with a material shortage. 

 Some 17 works of seven best young architects in HCM City are being displayed at the first Saigon Architects Exhibition organised at the HCM City Architecture University to May 5.

 A highly-poisonous toxin may be behind the abnormal mass fish deaths along the central coast of Vietnam over the last three weeks.

The National Instituteof Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) today announced itwould officially apply nucleic acid testing (NAT) in the blood screeningprocess.

 A rope-swinging adventure tour at Datanla waterfalls, where three foreign tourists died in February, was under inspection on April 26.

 The agro-forestry-fisheries export turnover in April was estimated at 2.97 billion USD, bringing the four-month figure to over 10 billion USD, up 11 percent against the same period last year.

 The Vietnamese Government supports Russia’s Gazprom to expand oil and gas production in Vietnam, asserted Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at his reception for Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom in Hanoi on April 26. 

Monitoring data shows that the saltwater has intruded deep into the inner HCM City since early April. The salinity in Nha Be, Sai Gon rivers and several canals in Binh Chanh and other districts is above last year’s levels.

 European automakers are welcoming the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement’s slashed tariffs, expected to take effect in early 2018, as a key step towards boosting imports to and investment in Vietnam’s rapidly-growing auto market.

 Different from other kinds of glutinous rice cake, Hai Duong’s Long cake has a light flavor, sweet-smelling, buttery and hot taste of puffed glutinous rice, ginger, roasted peanuts and sugar.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam had become the target of spy attack of hackers, according to a US intelligence report. Network security is no longer a distant issue of developing countries like Vietnam.

Many well-known high-cylinder capacity motorbike brands have arrived in Vietnam. The super-motorbikes, with high technology, strong engine and sky-high selling prices of between hundreds of millions of dong and billions of dong, have been marketed.

 The HCMC government is calling for Japanese firms to get involved in four major projects, including the long-planned Saigon Safari in Cu Chi District.

VietNamNet Bridge – Theatres that stage dramas in HCM City are facing unprecedented financial difficulties, while dramas aimed at adults are losing audiences, according to the director of the IDECAF Drama Theatre.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – When the drum beat signals the end of the school day, groups of students from Luong Yen primary school in Ha Noi’s Hai Ba Trung District flock towards the school gate, then head to nearby food stalls.

 Economists last Friday urged the Government to tighten management of public spending to reduce the budget deficit and to ease pressures caused by the public debt.

 Hundreds of Vietnamese in Germany, on April 24, gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate General based in Munich to protest against China’s illegal actions in the East Sea.

 The National Election Council (NEC) on April 26 released a list of 870 official candidates to run for the election of deputies to the 14th National Assembly (NA). 

 The Vietnam-Brazil Friendship Association held its second national congress in the 2016-2020 term, on April 26 in Hanoi, to boost the two countries’ cooperation in a wide range of fields.

 Vietnam is committed to macro-economic stability and the best possible conditions for foreign investors in the country, including Goldman Sachs, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.

Today the Government of Vietnam, the United Nations and partners are appealing to the international community to support a US$48.5 million emergency response plan to address the worsening El Niño drought.

The growth of MICE in Vietnam has been one of the nation’s tourism success stories in recent years.  According to the Hoa Binh Group - a leading MICE agency in Vietnam, the MICE market in 2015 saw year on year growth over 20 percent. 

 The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has warned of more mass fish deaths in the central coastal area of Vietnam due to the impending hot weather.

For $7.18, travel aficionados can now enjoy a one-day train tour to Thuy Chau tourist site in Di An town, the neibouring province of Binh Duong, from Ho Chi Minh City’s outskirts via Sai Gon Railways JSC’s new routes.

 Vuong Thi Huyen won a silver medal at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday.