With over 5,000 gong sets, accounting for more than half of the gongs in the Central Highlands, Gia Lai is one of the localities which have made efforts in preserving traditional cultural values.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a national programme on efficient and economical use of power in 2019-2030, aiming to save 5-7 percent of power consumption nationwide from 2019-2025.

The HCMC Department of Construction has proposed abolishing regulations on the collection of apartment maintenance fees to handle disputes between apartment building investors and management boards.

 Cashless transactions, currently accounts for 10% of total payments in Vietnam, are expected to increase to 50% in the next three years, according to Pham Thanh Duc, CEO of M-Service – the operator of e-wallet MoMo. 

 Foreign investors doing businesses in Vietnam through major capital contribution or establishing a company should be given the same treatment as its domestic peers.

HCM City has been named among the top eco-tourism tips and destinations for digital nomads in 2019 to shoeborn your work around them, according to the Blue & Green Tomorrow.

 Twenty-six flights between major cities in Japan and the central coastal city of Danang are expected to land at the latter’s airport from April 27 to May 2, transporting a total of 7,053 passengers, according to the Danang Tourism Promotion Center.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National science contests for school students are attracting more and more competitors every year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s secondary education department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – VTN Architects run by one of Việt Nam’s leading designers Vo Trong Nghia has won three Green Good Design 2019 awards from the European Centre for Architecture, 

 Hoang Anh Gia Lai JSC (HAG) recently announced that it has been fined to VND10.59 billion ($460,434) in tax arrears due to false declarations leading to a lack of payable tax amounts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Men’s football teams at the South East Asian (SEA) Games 2019 will consist of 21 U22 players and two overage players, the organisers have announced.

VietNamNet Bridge - Grab and Now, which both operate in the food delivery sector, are now competing with Woowa Brothers, a South Korean unicorn valued at $2.6 billion, which has taken over Vietnammm.com.

Vietnam is seeking more private investment to finance infrastructure projects, but it also needs to generate higher returns on those investments. Naoyuki Yoshino, dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute), 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A total VND30 billion (US$1.30 million) will be invested to help prepare 27 head coaches and 66 athletes for key international contests in the next few years, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese walkers secured the best finish of all Southeast Asian athletes at the Asian 20km Race Walking Championship which closed in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday.

 Media firm Yeah1 Group (YEG) has lost nearly VND4 trillion (US$171.7 million) – half of its market value – since early this month, in spite of efforts by company leadership to “save” the price of its stock by purchasing large amounts of YEG shares.

Foreign and Vietnamese lecturers and postgraduates will conduct research about landslides, river pollution, climate-change adaptation, transnational marriages and Khmer migration.

 No more African swine fever outbreak was detected in Hanoi on March 18, according to the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM education, has become hugely popular. The method helps to inspire scientific passion among pupils, creating a driving force for the next generation at a young age.

 A special market took place in Dien Bien province as part of the 6th Ban Flower Festival. Market-goers had a chance to experience the unique cultural beauty and customs of ethnic people in the northwest region.