The Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra will perform a colourful and multi-faceted concert at the French Cultural Centre under the baton of conductor Kim Xuan Hieu and with soloists Pham Van Hieu and Tran Hien on April 26 & 27. 

Tran Le Quoc Toan brought home a gold medal from the Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships, currently underway in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Minister of Agriculture Nguyen Xuan Cuong on Monday called on large animal husbandry businesses to increase their purchase of pigs and keep them in frozen storage in order to help farmers reduce inventories.

 Firms should attach importance to corporate governance to improve their competitiveness and develop sustainably, experts said.

 A month to promote workplace safety and hygiene, the first of its kind, will begin on May 1, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs revealed at a press conference in Hanoi on April 24.

Beauty contests have expanded to include those for married woman. It is tough for older women to retain the looks they had when they were much younger. In this situation, would it be unfair for them to beautify themselves with cosmetic surgery?

Vietnamese athletes won two gold medals yesterday in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix 2017 in Jinhua, a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang Province in eastern China.

A group of Israeli fashion designers from the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art will present their latest collections at the fourth Viet Nam International Fashion Week 2017. 

This year Reunification Day (April 30) and International Labor Day (May 1) fall on a weekend. The domestic tourism market is expected to be busier than ever. 

Vietnam is targeting keeping public debt, comprising central government debt, government-backed loans, and local government debt, below 65 percent of GDP between 2016 and 2018.

 Vietnamese aerobic athletes grabbed one gold, four silver and two bronze medals from the FIG World Cup Series Tokyo International which closed on April 23.

 Shares dropped further in the two local exchanges on April 24 as investors remained cautious about market conditions, pulling blue chips down.

A number of Vietnamese firms reached partnership deals with Myanmar companies during the Vietnam-Myanmar Trade-Services-Tourism Fair 2017 in Yangon, as part of their market research trip lasting two weeks.

 The corporate profit growth stood at 7.5 percent from 2010 – 2015, falling 60 percent from the rate of the 2005-2010 period, according to the General Statistics Office under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 Vietnam’s aviation sector must use advanced technologies such as e-commerce for its management, operations and business as it is a trend in global aviation transport, experts said in HCM City.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh has urged the four central coastal localities affected by the recent environmental incident to thoroughly complete compensation by June 30 this year, thus moving to support their livelihood and recover maritime environment.

The Government Inspectorate disclosed on April 24 the outcomes of its activities in the first quarter of 2017, noting that it found violations of economic regulations involving $1.84 billion and 168ha of land.

 The Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested two members of a drug trading racket while seizing 4.2 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, 292 ecstasy pills, two guns and VND1 billion ($44,000).

 Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chung Sye-kyun on April 24 began a three-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni right after his arrival in the country on April 24.