The pilot of Swiss-based Vistajet Airline has complained that a laser beam was flashed into the cockpit while his plane was landing at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi.   

 Nine-year-old Le Thi Nhat Linh, who was found dead in Japan, has been buried in her home province of Hung Yen on April 3.

 Viet Nam imported 19,000 cars in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 169 per cent in volume and 82 per cent in value, according to a report from the General Statistics Office (GSO).

At about 5pm on the last day of January, 24-year-old Nguyen Duc Hien from An Giang Province jumped off a fishing vessel as it was getting ashore near Cat Lo Port in Vung Tau City.

Can Tho City in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta hopes to boost tourism with a clutch of cultural and tourism events in the next three months, according to its Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 There have been some commentaries on the 2016 Wealth Report which claim Viet Nam is the fastest growing country with a super-rich population, surpassing even India and China.

 A multi-sector working team will be set up to evaluate the domestic automobile market in correlation with global regulations and Vietnam’s free trade agreements.

 When you want to protest against high toll fees charged by a BOT project, what do you do?

All 15 shops and business centres dedicated to serving only Chinese tourists in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province were closed by the local people’s committee, according to online newspaper zing.vn.

 Global investment firm KKR, through its Asian Fund II, has reached an agreement to invest US$250 million in Masan Group Corporation and its branded meat platform Masan Nutri-Science.

 Hanoi City’s 197 Steering Committee (tasked with the implementation of traffic order and safety) has asked the city People’s Committee to manage public parking zones on some qualified streets.

Japanese enterprises have shown increasing interest in various sectors in Vietnam, especially real estate which is enjoying trending upward, Masakazu Yamaguchi, Managing Director of the Creed Group said.

 Vietnam Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has owned up responsibility for polluting the environment, affecting nearby households.

 Enough has been written and said about the sad practice of school and college students cheating during their examinations.

 Residents living in Ea Tu Commune in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak’s Buon Ma Thuot City are concerned and call for solutions to curb the spread of ground water pollution.

 Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem has risen four places, from No 33 to No 29, in FIDE’s world rankings for April.

 Ly Hoang Nam jumped 36 spots to world No 591 in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) men’s singles rankings, announced on April 3.

Three men involved in an online soccer gambling ring that engaged in transactions worth some VND900 billion (US$39.6 million) were recently arrested by the police in central Nghe An Province.

Project investors, contractors and sub-contractors of a dredging project in the Cua Dai Estuary are suspected of “serious violations” with a large volume of sand gone “missing.”

 Full-time National Assembly (NA) deputies discussed penalties for juvenile offenders under draft revisions of the 2015 Penal Code at a meeting that began in Hanoi on April 3.