Up to 100 types of traditional cakes will be featured at 200 booths at the eighth Southern Traditional Cakes Festival in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho next month, heard a press conference in HCMC today, March 5.

 Discovery Networks Asia Pacific continues to expand its lifestyle footprint in Southeast Asia with the launch of its popular home and lifestyle channel HGTV in Vietnam on March 4.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The unobserved economy is not a recent phenomenon, so not a new concept. Concern about the influence of unmeasured economic activities has been growing since the beginning of the 20th century. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fishermen in the Mekong Delta have earned high profits from their near shore and offshore fishing trips with some having a bumper harvest and far more than last year’s catches during the same period.

 Following the Lunar New Year festival (Tet), both local and foreign airlines have opened a range of new air routes to tourist destinations across Vietnam with low-cost air tickets priced from VND149,000.

Five young Vietnamese have been awarded the first prize of an essay writing contest on European cultural heritage held by the EU Delegation to Vietnam and the Sinh vien Viet Nam (Vietnamese Students) newspaper.

The improved business performance of Vietnamese banks and a Government regulation to require local banks to meet stricter capital regulations is spelling the start of a wave of foreign investment into the country’s finance and banking sector.

Trung Nguyen may not be held for much longer for Vietnamese customers' taste for filter coffee, as competitors are breaking into the segment, adding to the headwind created by the prolonged divorce of chairman Dang Le Nguyen Vu and his wife.

Vietnam’s seafood sector is facing a severe shortage of input material, which will affect the industry’s goal to export US$10.5 billion worth of seafood this year, up US$1 billion against the figure seen in 2018.

Due to the rising volume of coal ashes produced by thermal power plants, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung noted that it was necessary to change the way of handling these ashes.

The Ministry of Public Security has proposed formal charges against four former executives of Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) for abusing their positions and power to appropriate assets. 

Many Japanese firms active in Vietnam expect to expand their business in the country, Takimoto Koji, chief representative of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in HCMC, told a press briefing held in the city on March 4.

Asia's largest low-cost airline group AirAsia on March 4 announced that it would permanently withdraw tickets for its flights from online tourism platform Traveloka.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers who breed marine fish in floating cages in Vung Tau City in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau are using new advanced farming techniques with good results.

 The measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine does not increase the risk of autism and does not trigger autism in children who are at risk, according to a new study of over 650,000 children.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam (DRVN) to recover nearly VND1.2 billion (US$52,170) from the Bac Thang Long – Noi Bai Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll booth,

Bui Ta Hoang Vu, director of the HCM City’s Department of Tourism, talks to Người Lao Động newspaper about HCM City’s efforts to improve its tourism environment to meet the target of 8.5 million foreign visitors 

Vingroup on March 4th debuted its VinTech Korea in the City of Daegu, South Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Remnants of the foundations of a 10th century pagoda in Xuan Dai Mountain, Vinh Loc District, the central province of Thanh Hoa, have just been excavated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health (MoH) will continue to use the ComBE Five vaccine in a national expanded immunisation programme (EIP), a senior official said.