Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has highlighted that Vietnam always welcomes and creates all favourable conditions for Indian firms to join programmes and projects on information technology in Vietnam.

 A painting exhibition, the Meet of March, will feature 50 paintings by 10 local artists in celebration of the 42nd anniversary of central Da Nang city’s Liberation Day (March 29).

 Rehann Croquevielle  is one of the most renowned portrait photographers worldwide. Leaving behind his hectic life in France, the photographer has chosen Vietnam as his second home over the past 10 years. 

 The second National “Don Ca Tai Tu” Festival will be held in the southern province of Binh Duong from April 8-12.

 Vietnam continues targeting a place among the top three countries in the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which will be held in Malaysia from August 19-31.

 The 2017 ASEAN Film Festival was launched at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 27 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ASEAN.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued a decree imposing temporary anti-dumping duties on H-shaped steel products imported from China.

 Further studies should be carried out on land, climate, cultivating techniques, and seedlings before macadamia are put into large-scale cultivation in the Central Highlands provinces.

 Quarter 1, 2017: Foreign investment soars

 Raising deposit interest rates may affect the real estate market, heard a press conference organised by the Commercial Real Estate Services (CBRE) Vietnam in Hanoi on March 27.

 Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco) will pour nearly 3 billion USD into the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone in the central province of Quang Nam in the 2017-2021 period, lifting its total investment in the zone to 6 billion USD. 

 Nearly 26,500 enterprises were created in the first quarter of this year with a total registered capital of over 270 trillion VND (11.8 billion USD).

 Vietnam exported an estimated 1.28 million tonnes of rice in the first three months of the year, earning 570 million USD, down 18 percent in volume and 17.3 percent in value compared to the same period last year. 

  It is normal for commercial banks to adjust their interest rates in accordance with their business strategies and market situation, said the State Bank of Vietnam.

 Tran To Nga, a Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victim living in France, introduced her autobiography on the occasion of the Vietnam Day event held in Valenton city, Val de Marne province of France, on March 25.

 The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) will host the 10th Asia-Pacific Ministers’ Conference in Hanoi from April 17 to 21.

 Food safety is becoming a great concern for the public, according to a report released by the World Bank in Vietnam during a seminar in Hanoi on March 27. 

 The Vietnamese embassy in Japan has immediately taken citizen protection measures upon learning that a Vietnamese third-grade girl, Le Thi Nhat Linh, was found dead in Abiko city, the Japanese prefecture of Chiba. 

 A senior official of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has reiterated the CPV’s support for the left-wing movement which fights for peace, prosperity and equality in the world.

 Hanoi officials shared experience in administrative reforms with officials of Laos’s Vientiane capital city at a discussion on March 27.