VietNamNet Bridge – On his 2,000sq m vegetable farm in Tra Vinh Province, Thach Bay was working to the tune of a revolutionary song playing on his old mobile phone.

 EY’s Global Banking Outlook 2018 shows that 85 per cent of banks name the implementation of a digital transformation programme as a business priority for 2018.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos on April 24 was granted with a first-class Labour Order in recognition of its excellent achievements from 2012 to 2016.

 The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC)’s Inspection Commission has proposed imposing the highest disciplinary measure against Dinh La Thang, member of the CPVCC and Vice Chairman of the CPVCC’s Commission for Economic Affairs.

 Vietnam demanded China to immediately end illegal activities in the areas of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, to respect the Southeast Asian country’s sovereignty over the archipelagos.

 The fresh signing of a joint vision statement on defence cooperation through 2030 between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will contribute to promoting defence relations in a deeper and more practical manner.

 A grand ceremony was held on April 24 in Hoa Lu district, the Red River Delta province of Ninh Binh, to celebrate 1,050 years of the establishment of Dai Co Viet, the first centralized feudal state of Vietnam.

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 The palanquin and offering procession was organised by seven communes and wards surrounding the Hung Kings Temple Complex in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 23.

 A folk cultural programme will be held from April 28-29 at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology to meet the entertainment demand of capital dwellers during the upcoming Liberation Day (April 30) and May Day national holidays. 

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan expected that Viet Nam and Sri Lanka will actively and effectively realize the agreements signed in April 2017, striving to raise the two-way trade value to US$1 billion in the upcoming time. 

 Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung has defended a plan to slap a property tax on home, land and other asset owners, saying it would not affect low-income people.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications said on April 20 that the Government has relaxed business conditions for those providing computer gaming services, and launching and operating news aggregators and social networks.

 Technology transfers from foreign firms to domestic partners have been as scant as ever, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, chairman of HCMC, at a meeting with foreign firms on April 21.

 Shareholders of HCMC Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank) have approved a plan in which Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PG Bank) will be merged into HDBank.

 The Prime Minister’s economic advisory team has projected average economic growth at 6.85% between now and 2020.

 According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO), more than 4.2 million foreign tourists travelled to Vietnam in the first three months of this year, a 30.9 percent year-on-year increase.

 The Drug and Crime Prevention Department in coordination with Lao police force have caught red-handed a Lao man who was smuggling 40kg of methamphetamine, 120,000 pills of synthetic drug and two cakes of heroin into Vietnam.

 The War Remnants Museum in HCM City has opened a display of around 190 items, documents, and photos related to the US army’s use of bombs, mines, and toxic chemicals during the past war in Vietnam.

 Police in the central highlands province of Dak Nong have prosecuted and arrested five people involving in the large-scale fake coffee production in the area.