The Ministry of Planning and Investment has rejected the northern province of Ha Giang’s proposal to build a new administrative centre.

 A driver was startled when a small child suddenly ran out onto the highway in Nghe An Province. 

 A paragliding festival is to take place from May 18 to 20 on Khau Pha Mountain Pass in Mu Cang Chai district in northwestern Yen Bai province.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese and foreign convenience stores are rushing to open more shops, use more technologies and provide more services in the retail market.

BIP and Jiangshu are the next teams advancing to the semi-finals of the VTV9 Binh Dien International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, currently underway in Quang Nam Province.

 Some 20 tonnes of old books will be available at the Hanoi May Old Book Fair at the Viet Nam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts.

 The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday agreed to introduce a draft law on amending 13 planning-related laws to the agenda of next week’s National Assembly plenary meeting.

 FPT Software has asked the Ministry of Transport and relevant sectors for permission to operate self-driving autos in hi-tech zones and software parks nationwide on an experimental basis.

 Profit-taking intensified during Wednesday afternoon trading, dragging shares down on both national stock exchanges and making market liquidity plunge.

MSCI, a global leading provider of research-based indexes and analytics, has eyes for Vietnamese shares when it added five local shares to its MSCI Frontier Markets Small Cap Index.

Grab’s acquisition of Uber could have violated the Competition Law, said officials of the Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, adding that they might begin an official investigation.

Vietnam will send more officers, especially females, to participate in the UN peacekeeping operations, said Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh. 

 India’s Institute of Social Sciences inaugurated its Centre for Vietnam Studies on May 15 in New Delhi.

About 600 out of 2,500 old apartment buildings in Vietnam are in dangerous or seriously dilapidated conditions, making up some 25 percent of the total number of old buildings, according to the Construction Ministry. 

The US Air Force Academy is scheduled to send a delegation of students to Vietnam and several other Southeast Asian nations this summer for information, language and cultural exchanges with these countries. 

Off-shore fishing has over recent years become an economic spearhead in many localities. However, beyond the bumper harvest, there left a hardship weariness that makes it hard for fishermen to do their job.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed a rise of environmental protection tax on petrol to the ceiling level of 4,000 VND (17 US cent) per litre from the current 3,000 VND (13 US cent) per litre.

 The Australian government is willing to cooperate and share experience with Vietnam in seeking effective measures to adapt to the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), said an Australian official.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has requested the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Finance to monthly publicise the disbursement of capital for public investment projects by ministries, sectors and localities.

Petrolimex and the Japan Cooperation Centre Petroleum has signed an agreement for the second phase of a technical cooperation project on operating the petroleum depot at Petrolimex’s headquarters.