Foreigners working in Vietnam without a valid work permit will continue to be deported from the country, while employers will also face heavy fines for violating regulations about foreign employees.

 Online businesses may turn to other platforms to do business after Facebook blocked API, affecting many Vietnamese retailers using it as a trading platform.

Vietnamese and foreign representatives will attend a workshop on April 5 to discuss potential applications of IT in human resources training ahead of the enforcement of the Comprehensive and Progressive Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

 Hanoi authorities are planning to announce the list of apartment buildings violating fire prevention and fighting regulations, following a similar move in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Coal is imported more and more, due to some coal thermal power plants are putting into opearation and imported coal is cheaper.

 The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated urban railway will come into commercial operation in this December, despite rumours about a 2021 date.

 According to the Ministry of Transport, to facilitate urbanisation, ten ports located along the Saigon River will be removed.

 The Forest Protection Department is investigating the origin of three giant trees which have just been seized while being transported for sale.

 Global online travel agencies (OTAs) currently hold up to 80% of Vietnam’s online travel market share, said Nguyen Van Tuan, head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

 The former PetroVietnam chairman Dinh La Thang has been ordered to repay VND600bn to PetroVietnam but lawyers claim it would be difficult to recover the money.

 Households in the northern province of Hung Yen are busy harvesting honey.

A recent proposal by the Ministry of Finance to clear over $1.16 billion of tax arrears, accounting for more than a third of all tax arrears and irrecoverable fines, has raised public concern about the fairness and transparency of handling tax debts.

 The Viet Nam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index dropped to 51.6 in March from February’s 10-month high of 53.5, Nikkei’s IHS Markit reported on Monday.

 Vietnam’s club Saigon Heat lost to San Miguel Alab Pilipinas of the Philippines 100-110 in the playoff’s first match of the ASEAN Basketball League on Sunday.

 Spanish conductor David Gomez Ramirez will conduct Vietnam National Opera and Ballet to perform opera extracts and contemporary dance at Hanoi Opera House on April 11-12.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will restage the classical ballet Cinderella by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev at the city’s Opera House on April 7 and 8.

 The Vietnam Youth Theatre will perform a series of plays in Hanoi between April 5 - 10 to mark the 40th anniversary of its establishment. The opening performance of the five day extravaganza will be the play Who is the Culprit.  

 After a four year hiatus, the Vietnam Caricature Contest is open for applications again.

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Vietnam’s total revenue from retail trade and services rose 10 per cent year-on-year to exceed VND1 quadrillion (US$46.57 billion) in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).