South Korea has retained its position as Viet Nam’s leading source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of this year.

 Always a premier tourism destination in the country, Hue city plans to take it up several notches with a renewed focus on longer stays by both domestic and international visitors in the former imperial capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam target a berth in the higher group when they take part in the Davis Cup, Asia/Oceania Zone Group III competition next week.

 Vietnam’s world-renowned concert pianist Dang Thai Son has confirmed that he will join the piano faculty at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, United States this fall.

 The national women’s football team drew Bayern Munich 1-1 in their first friendly match in Germany on Monday.

Hundreds of poultry farming companies provide meat and eggs, and tens of thousands of household-run farms are operating throughout the country. However, no powerful company has yet to lead the market.

 The FLC Group on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus to buy up to 24 A321neo aircraft for Bamboo Airways.

 A maths competition began in Hanoi yesterday and for the first time there was a new addition – contestants from overseas.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh ordered the Hanoi administration on Monday to urgently inspect vehicles labelled as tourist cabs but functioning as coaches to avoid paying tax in the city.

Two men who raped and killed a Vietnamese student in the United Kingdom have been convicted of her murder.

Downsizing efforts will be implemented without exception in all sectors, including education and health, said deputy minister of home affairs Nguyen Duy Thang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A silk painting by Nguyen Nam Son (1890-1973), one of the leading artists in modern Vietnamese fine art, was auctioned at 205,000 euros.

 A senior official of the Asian Development Bank has said Vietnam has been an active member of the Greater Mekong Sub-region programme.

 Most of Vietnamese people have been eating too much salt, nearly double the World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommend level of 5g per day, heard a workshop in Hanoi on March 27.

 A number of new vaccines will be used in the expanded national vaccination programme (NEVP), the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on March 27.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in 2018 is forecast to rise by 3.41 percent, 3.55 percent and 3.9 percent under the scenarios created by the aide group of the Government’s Steering Committee on Price Management. 

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has expected that her ongoing official visit to the Netherlands will further deepen the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the European country in general and the Dutch parliament in particular.

 Police from the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have arrested three people trafficking 135 bricks of heroin (48kg) and 500,000 synthetic drug pills.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a rehearsal of activities of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region Summit (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) in Hanoi on March 27. 

Hanoi, Jakarta seek to expand cooperation in urban planning, Justice Ministry urged to cut, clarify regulations, Vietnam, Hungary augment ties in judicial manpower training, HCM City leader receives Indonesian Consul General