Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong had talks with First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba Raul Castro Ruz in Havana on March 29 afternoon.

 At least six member countries of the Transpacific Partnership’s new avatar, the CPTPP, including Viet Nam, are likely to ratify it this year, enabling it to come into force in early 2019, a seminar heard in HCM City on Thursday.

 Vietnamese players will take part in the Fencing Grand Prix’s sabre to be held in South Korea’s Seoul from March 30 to April 1.

 Vietnam is ranked under the global average in the open budget index, especially in terms of public participation.

The total value of M&A deals made in 2017 was 8.4 billion, according to IMMA (Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances). The sharp 45 percent increase in M&A value in comparison with 2016 shows strong interest from investors.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received warm welcome from Cuban NA President Esteban Lazo Hernández and students and teachers at Vo Thi Thang Elementary School and University of Havana.

Vietnam and Cuba discussed ways to make their special ties more practical and effective with the focus on promising sectors such as economics, trade, investment, construction, agriculture, aquaculture and green energy.

Representatives from the Greater Mekong Subregion began the second working day of the 6th GMS Summit and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Summit in Hanoi on March 30 with a series of activities, focusing on crucial issues to the region.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was granted the Doctor Honoris Causa title in political science by the UH to recognise his important contributions to Vietnam’s nation-building cause and practical and theoretical views he shared with Cuba.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Du Lich, a respected economist, said at a recent annual workshop on the  economy that there are two risks for Vietnam – the middle-income trap, and the risk of growing older (working-age population) before becoming rich. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The small and compact meter can be mounted on a motorbike. If the concentration of alcohol is higher than the permitted level, the device will automatically lock the motorbike and send an alert to relatives or friends.

Renovating technology, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and developing a low-carbon economy are methods being used by coastal EZs in the new development period.

VietNamNet Bridge - More young Vietnamese people have grabbed opportunities to work for huge companies like Facebook. 

The Government has decided to include the North-South expressway in the east to a list of major transport projects, pursuant to the recently issued Resolution on building certain sections of the expressway in the east in the 2017-2020 period.

 T&T Group and France’s Bouygues Group on Tuesday clinched a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation in an urban railway project in Hanoi on the occasion of a France visit by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

 Danang City authorities will distribute one million stamps at no charge for food vendors at Han market in Danang City this year in a bid to control the origin and quality of food.

The Ministry of Education and Training and the World Bank held a Higher Education Strategy Stakeholder Consultation to collect opinions from experts and researchers in order to develop an overall strategy for higher education in Vietnam.

 Vietnam have been placed in Pot 3 for the 2019 Asian Cup draw, together with Iraq, Uzbekistan, India, Qatar, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

 Consumer confidence down slightly in Q3 2017 but Vietnam remains seventh most-optimistic country in the world.

 Swedish fast-fashion clothing retailer H&M reported the lowest profit of the past 16 years, leaving the largest inventory in the company's history, promising a large wave of clearance sales for Vietnamese fashion hunters.