The Ministry of Finance has proposed a 50 percent personal income tax (PIT) reduction on income from salaries and wages of hi-tech workers in an effort to help ease enterprises’ staff shortage. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese believe that eating wild animal meat on the first days of the lunar year will bring good luck. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Thi Minh Chau, a math teacher at Long Thoi High School in HCMC, did not say one word while teaching students in the last four months. 

Communities of the Co Tu ethnic group living in the city and Quang Nam Province will host the traditional Co Tu Cultural Day in Gian Bi Village in the city’s Hoa Bac Commune on April 13-14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fishing season has started in the central province of Quang Tri, but many ships remain ashore due to a lack of willing seamen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Tan, a farmer in Kien Giang Province’s An Bien District, is making the best of a bad situation.  

For students at Nguyen Ba Ngoc Primary School in Central Highland province of Dak Lak’s Krong Pac District where 90 per cent of students are ethnic, Êđê language lessons are always the ones they love most.

Crafting wooden fish, a wooden percussion instrument in temples, has become an integral part of a small village in Thuy Xuan ward, Hue city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 90 per cent of local markets in Hanoi don’t meet fire safety standards.

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Vietnamese, Turkmen foreign ministries hold political consultation, Vietnam attends ASEANSAI conference in Indonesia, Deputy PM calls for efforts to keep core inflation at 1.6-1.8 percent

 The recent visits to France and Cuba by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong created new momentum to promote cooperation in science and technology.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) has begun carrying out a national business census in 2018 to take stock of the real situation in corporate development.

 Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich’s upcoming attendance of the 7th Moscow Conference on International Security in Russia on April 4-5 aims to affirm Vietnam’s responsibility towards global and regional matters, a Vietnamese officer has said. 

The Prime Minister has recently approved the Target Programme on investing in infrastructure in coastal economic zones; border gate economic, industrial and high-tech areas for the 2016-2020 period. 

 The stock market started the first week of April with green colour dominating large-cap stocks and those in banking and real estate in both bourses. 

President Tran Dai Quang praised efforts made to boost the traditional friendship and economic, trade and investment ties between Vietnam and Mongolia while meeting with the Secretary of the National Security Council of Mongolia.

 Vietnamese shooting team will strive to win medals at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 to be held in Indonesia in August, Secretary General of the Vietnam Shooting Federation Nguyen Thi Nhung has said.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised the need to ensure the quality of growth and people’s living standards at the same time while addressing the Cabinet’s meeting in Hanoi on April 2. 

Vietnam’s economy enjoyed a more sustainable growth in the first quarter of the year with a strong economic expansion of 7.38 percent, the best first-quarter performance in the last decade.