No Vietnamese citizens have been reported among victims of explosions in Sri Lanka on April 21, according to the Vietnam Embassy in Sri Lanka.

An exhibition is being held at the Russian Museum of Military Medicine in Saint Petersburg to give visitors an insight into the assistance of the former Soviet Union’s army for Vietnam.

The Investigation Police Agency of central Nghe An province has begun criminal proceedings against the case of “illegally transporting drugs, not denouncing criminals and taking property by force” for further investigation.

Foreign investors are eyeing Vietnam’s healthcare sector, but they find it difficult to invest in the field.

Within four months, the preliminary results of the Vietnam 2019 Population and Housing Census will be made public. Information about population, education level, jobs, housing and migration will be helpful to form new policies.

Intellectual property (IP) is now considered one of the key factors in national commercial, educational, cultural exchange and cooperation.

Vietnam’s GDP growth looks set to slow over the next couple of years, but the country is likely to remain one of the region’s best performing economies, according to Capital Economics.

The Sap Still Runs, an exhibition that will immerse visitors into an art space full of poetic works created by two artists, Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine and Truong Cong Tung, is slated for opening at 7 p.m. on April 24 at San Art in HCMC.

Three foreign runners will take part in the Red River Run, a 300-kilometer relay scheduled for 5 a.m. on April 22, to raise funds to improve healthcare services for local newborns.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) and the government of Hanoi City will jointly hold a “Vietnam Airlines Festa – Summer in Europe” event from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 20-21 in Hanoi, gathering many artists from France and Germany.

Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2019 is scheduled to take place from April 26 to May 2 in the central city of Hue.

HCMC police confirmed on April 19 that they have arrested members of a large drug trafficking ring in District 5, seizing more than 1.1 tons of drugs transported by two Taiwanese, Yeh Ching Wei, 33, and Chiang Wei Chih, 31.

The HCMC High-level People's Court has ruled that Eximbank must pay over VND115 billion to Chu Thi Binh, who was swindled out of US$10.5 million by former deputy director of the Eximbank HCMC branch Le Nguyen Hung.

The number of vehicles is on the steep rise in HCMC, with scooters making up a staggering 37% of exhaust emissions, said an expert at a roundtable on the environment in HCMC on April 19.

After Techcombank announced its ‘zero-dong service’ policy, in which its clients pay no fee for some kinds of services, other banks have followed the move.

In addition to outsourcing, fintech, blockchain or AI are now among notable trends of Vietnam’s IT industry.

Professor Nguyen Thanh Hiep, named one of the country’s top physicians in 2018 by the Vietnamese Young Doctors’ Association, talks to Sức Khỏe & Đời sống (Health & Life) newspaper on the need to develop the family doctor model.

2nd Co-operative Registrars’ Forum opens in HCM City

After graduating from the HCMC-based Vietnam University of Science  Nguyen Thi Kieu Phuong confidently pursued synthetic chemistry, focusing strongly on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

In 2018, manufacturing remained the driving force of the economy with an increase of 12.98% year-on-year, contributing 2.55 percentage points to Vietnam’s 10-year high economic growth of 7.08%.