PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted the importance of cooperation in the fields of knowledge, technical assistance and technology transfer via RoK’s investments in Vietnam while receiving former RoK Minister of Policy Coordination.

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam in the first quarter of 2018 witnessed a significant yearly decline of 25 percent to 5.8 billion USD.

 Business cooperation between Vietnam and Belarus will be further developed following trade deals inked between the two sides in the northern province of Hung Yen on March 29 in the presence of Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko.

 Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2018 rose 7.38 percent, the highest growth rate over the past ten years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The nation’s top goalkeeper, Dang Van Lam, may miss the fourth round of the V.League this weekend owing to injury.

 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Senior Officials’ Meeting convened in Hanoi on March 29 in preparation for the upcoming sixth GMS Summit (GMS-6) on March 31.

 Vice Admiral Midgette’s visit coincides with the official handover of the Coast Guard Region 4 Station from the U.S. to Viet Nam, comprisingUS$20 million worth of infrastructure and equipment.

 BKAV Corporation announced on March 28 that there have been more than 139,000 computers in Vietnam infected with a new coinminer virus called W32.AdCoinMiner. 

 Vietnamese tra fish export to the U.S. remains uninterrupted despite the U.S. tariff hike, said U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink at a press conference on March 26.

 A seminar on implementing the national data on population was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Public Security Department on March 28 with the participation of Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

 The 2018 International Piano Festival will be held at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi from August 11 – 18.

 A fire at a police station in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, in Carabobo state, has left 68 people dead, government officials say.

 The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2018 opened on March 29 and will last until April 1 at the Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao Street in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem district.

Flowering bombax ceiba or red silk cotton trees are a common sight around northern Vietnamese villages in March, as locals are swept up in an air of nostalgia for the bliss of childhood in their hometown.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang City’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) Island district opened the Hoang Sa Museum to the public in a ceremony yesterday, marking the 43rd anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s education sector has been ordered to shape up and improve its public image.

The VN Index has been increasing sharply since the beginning of the year with capital flowing to finance and banking, real estate, and shares with a high capitalization value.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A play about money and love adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s novel Eugénie Grandet by director Viet Linh will be staged in HCM City on Friday.

 Damaged firefighting equipment, occupied corridors, and blocked emergency exits were found in many old residential areas in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.

 The former director of the Tay Do branch of Vietcombank in Can Tho, Nguyen Minh Chuyen, has been prosecuted for swindling VND1.44 trillion ($64 million) from the bank.