Hanoi Buffaloes were crowned champions of the first Viet Nam Futsal League (VFL) after beating HCM City Wings in a penalty shootout on Sunday.

 Five Vietnamese coaches could take charge of world-leading clubs after they finished a course by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) recently.

 A resident in the southern province of Dong Thap found a statue of Vishnu dating to the seventh century.

 Traditional craft villages of Hanoi are facing a shortage of labourers, especially skilled workers, reported Kinh te Viet Nam &The Gioi (Viet Nam and World Economy) Magazine.

 Thousands of mobile phone subscribers are rushing to service providers across the country to update their personal information.

VietNamNet Bridge - If everything goes smoothly, the Vietnam stock market may be upgraded to an emerging market by 2020.

 Students from six universities in Ho Chi Minh City show their creativeness in their designs on the theme of traffic safety at the Safe Style Fashion Show.

 Kazakhstan triumphed at the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Women’s Beach Volleyball Tournament which wrapped up in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 23.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has said that China’s temporary ban of fishing activities in Vietnam’s territorial waters is worthless. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision on the Government’s plans to borrow and pay loans as well as limits of loans in 2018.

 Some 2.5 million people flocked to the northern midland province of Phu Tho to celebrate the annual Hung Kings Temple Festival as of April 23 (the eight day of the third lunar month), said the organising board. 

Sabeco appointed a new management board at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on April 23, following Thai Beverage Public (ThaiBev)’s acquisition of a 53.59 percent stake in the State brewer last year.

 The media centre for the Hue Festival 2018 opened on April 23 at No. 1, Phan Boi Chau street, Hue city, serving reporters to cover the biennial event. 

 Craft villages in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue are in a rush to show their best products at festivals scheduled for later this month.

On the occasion of the Hung Kings Temple Festival, scheduled to take place between April 20 and 25 in Phu Tho province, Xoan singing performances will be held between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm every day. 

 The VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) dropped 43.08 points to 1,076.78 points on April 23, representing a decrease of 3.85 percent. 

 The Sri Lanka Cultural Festival will take place at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum (VWM) in Hanoi from April 27-29, featuring diverse activities, according to Sri Lankan Ambassador to Vietnam S.H.U Dissnayake. 

 Vietnam is becoming a safer nation relative to many others, and once again improved its safety ranking in 2017, according to the latest report released by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global safety science company.

 An inter-sectoral meeting took place between Vietnamese and Cambodian agencies took place in Phnom Penh on April 23 to discuss the handling of legal residency procedures for Vietnamese Cambodians.

 The 7th Southeast Asia Karate Federation Championship kicked off in the northern province of Bac Ninh on April 23.