Viet Nam’s first-ever festival featuring Mau Thuong Ngan (Mother Goddess of Forest) worship will bring folk artists from across the nation to Yen Bai Province on May 20 and 21. 

Some VND62 trillion (US$2.7 billion) of official development aid (ODA) is the amount proposed by the Ha Noi People’s Committee to build two new railway routes in the city.

 Danabus, an app for smartphones that allows users to find buses in the central city of Da Nang, has been officially launched by the city’s Department of Transport.

 Pre-paid SIM cards will no longer be available for use by those who do not update their information with their provider, according to new regulations on violations in telecommunications, IT, and radio frequencies.

A photography museum will open on May 15 in Lai Xa village, Hoai Duc district in Hanoi and display and introduce the photography village’s traditional trade. 

 Hanoi has proposed adding two new terminals at Noi Bai International Airport to deal with possible overload in the next few years.

 The Internet of Things (IoT) is perhaps the most obvious impact of Industry 4.0 on agriculture. 

The HCM City Stock Exchange just announced that three of VinaCapital’s foreign investment funds have recently sold more than 29.4 million shares of Quoc Cuong Gia Lai Joint Stock Company.

 Viet Nam’s benchmark VN-Index is expected to rise further this week and meet a strong test to get past the level of 730 points.

 Following recent complaints that several banks in Viet Nam have stopped providing ATM services at night, the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has ordered all banks nationwide to provide ATM services 24/7.

 The Government will likely ease the requirement for seafood enterprises to submit declarations of conformity with food safety regulations, officials said at a conference on Saturday.

 Viet Nam urgently needs an effective model for managing State capital at State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to prevent loss and corruption while promoting efficiency in using State capital.

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited, the operating and managing unit for the Dung Quat Refinery, has sent invitations to 15 domestic and foreign investment funds in preparation for IPO in the third quarter of 2017.

 Unlike in previous years, thousands of farming households in Triệu Phong district of central Quang Tri province see organic farming as offering a sustainable livelihood and a way out of poverty.

 The planting of Macadamia trees is expected to help the Central Highlands provinces in general and Dak Lak province in particular to reduce poverty.

VietNamNet Bridge - Air pollution is getting more serious in large urban areas, with pollution in the north more serious than the south. 

 Development gap hinders linkages in APEC auto industry, Striving for 1.2 percent GRDP contribution rate, Doosan Vina exports cranes to India, Hanoi-Hai Phong Expressway investor grieves over lack of support

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training's (MOET) project on applying VNEN (the Vietnam Escuela Nueva) model at general schools has not succeeded. 

Contrary to all predictions, automobile manufacturers have set modest targets for this year’s business plans. After a two-year boom, the automobile market is expected to be more quiet in 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - At the Da Nang University of Technology, Nguyen Huynh Nhat Thuong is a famous student. His early warning system for floods has won top prizes at scientific research contests.