IBM Vietnam and CMC Telecommunication Infrastructure JSC (CMC Telecom) signed a co-operation agreement on providing outsourced managed security services on April 21.

 Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific Airlines announced their partnership for the Lotusmiles programme on April 20.

 The Independence Palace in HCM City will open two more rooms for tourists starting April 28.

 The Vietnam Tourism Association named Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province, My Khe of Da Nang and Quan Lan in Quang Ninh as Vietnam’s three most beautiful beaches.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese manufacturers are equal in strength with foreign goods in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market.

 Fire damaged a 5ha log farm near Ba Na – Nui Chua Nature Reserve in Hoa Vang District, 25km away from the central city’s centre yesterday, the city’s forest management department said.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The officials of the Dong Nai provincial Education and Training Department mistakenly said that Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan are two 10 provinces in Mekong River Delta.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has requested credit institutions and foreign banks to intensify their credit quality and bad debt management and submit their bad debt handling plans.

 The first-ever Japanese cherry blossom festival is scheduled to take place in the southern province of Dong Nai on April 23-24 with a conference for Japanese investors to be held on the event’s sidelines.

 The Cat Bi international airport in the northern port city of Hai Phong will extend its access to destinations at home and abroad in the near future, revealed a local conference on April 21.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Ministry of Planning and Investment and other ministries and agencies to promptly reach consensus to fulfill the growth target of 6.7 percent in 2016.

 General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and State President Bounnhang Volachith will pay an official friendship visit to Vietnam from April 25-27.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken compared notes on measures to enhance the relationship between Vietnam and the US.

Vietnam is determined to improve its investment and business environment to create more favourable conditions for foreign investors, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed while receiving Chairman of the Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group Jonathan Choi.

Vietnam treasures its relations with Japan and considers the country a high-priority partner in its foreign policy, affirmed President Tran Dai Quang at his reception for the special advisor to Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists from the Geophysics Institute, an arm of the Vietnam Science & Technology Academy, have reassured the public that the recent earthquakes in Bac Tra My district of Quang Nam province were ‘anticipated’.

 The government may find it difficult to mobilise sufficient capital to reach its ambitious growth target for the 2016-2020 period due to budget woes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tunnel of sculpture has become a must-see destination in the travel handbook of anyone who visits Da Lat.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Every year, erosion sewers out500 hectares of land in the Mekong Delta and leaves local people living in fear.

 Le Quoc Phong elected as First Secretary of HCYU Central Committee, Hanoi drainage project runs behind schedule, Female candidates receive training for parliament election campaigning, CDIA assists Can Tho in wastewater treatment