VietNamNet Bridge - The investments by technology firms such as Grab, GoViet and Ahamove in the e-commerce delivery market have put pressure on traditional postal service providers.

 Vietnamese products have great opportunities to reach foreign markets thanks to global online distributors such as Amazon and Alibaba.

 Hanoi plans to set up more air quality monitoring stations in the face of worsening air pollution, according to local authorities.

VietNamNet Bridge - Parents are concerned that students are idolizing a personality who despises the law and catches public attention with shocking speeches and curses. 

 A so-called Network of Excellence (NoE) on research to increase traffic safety in Vietnam with the participation of international universities and organisations (including Belgium’s Hasselt University), was launched on April 2. 

 The Lang Son border guard has handed over confiscated objects, allegedly related to high-tech criminal activity, to the agency in charge of border entry and exit examination of Guangxi, China.

 The Ciputra Hanoi-Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge 2019 will kick off in Hanoi on April 9, heard a press conference on the badminton tourney held on April 2.

 Vietnam’s retail market has developed strongly in recent years, with a large amount of foreign investment poured into the market. 

 The so-called ‘TrashTag Challenge’ has gone viral in recent days and inspired people the world over to clean up rubbish in littered public areas, with Vietnam no exception.

 Since 1975, bombs and mines left from the war in Vietnam killed more than 40,000 people and injured 60,000 others, mainly those of working-age and children.

 National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with Mayor of Toulouse city Jean-Luc Moudenc on April 2 (local time) on the occasion of her official visit to France.

 Owners of 18 illegal constructions in Hanoi’s outlying district of Soc Son have ignored local authority requests to dismantle their buildings.

 A ceremony to repatriate remains of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam was held at Da Nang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang on April 2. 

 Almost half of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro project has been completed, with the line expected to become operational in 2020, five years behind schedule.

 All Vietnamese students studying at the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy in Russia's St. Petersburg are safe in an explosion that rocked the school on April 2, the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has said.

 Viet Nam plans to raise VND1.7 trillion (US$71.5 million) of investment from the private and foreign sectors to develop the national innovation centre (NIC).

 VinCommerce General Trading Services Joint Stock Company, a subsidiary of Vingroup, has bought convenience store chain Shop&Go for US$1.

The draft amended Law on Securities, expected to be approved by the upcoming National Assembly meeting in May, is still causing confusion among investors, market members and regulators.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked Da Nang and Quang Nam to work with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Finance to devise measures to stabilise their real estate markets.

 Viet Nam’s insurance industry maintained positive growth in the first quarter of this year, with total premiums surging by 17 per cent year-on-year, according to reports from the General Statistics Office.