VietNamNet Bridge – New Wind Ensemble will play a concert on April 13. The event will open a series of concerts organised by the Goethe Institute in Ha Noi and the Viet Nam National Symphony Orchestra this year.

 Work on four underground parking lots in downtown HCMC will commence this year and next and be up and running in 2019, the HCMC Department of Transport has said.

As the season of annual shareholders’ meetings is coming, banks’ shareholders are looking forward to more mergers and acquisitions in the sector.

 On March 31, the newly-elected National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan presented the NA Standing Committee’s nomination of Public Security Minister Tran Dai Quang for the post of State President.

 National Gallery Singapore today launched its first international special exhibition, Reframing Modernism, co-curated and co-presented with Centre Pompidou, Paris.

 Gold books and other royal gold objects of the Nguyen Dynasty are on display at the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi from March 31.

 Hanoi will not use budget funds, but mobilised social capital to build a three-storey underground parking lot in Thong Nhat Park, an official of the municipal People’s Committee said.

 Customers of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will have the chance to experience four-star services at low cost while flying from Ho Chi Minh City to the Republic of Korea and Japan from April 1 to June 30.

 Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC on March 31.

 A team from China plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) program that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go,

VietNamNet Bridge – It is estimated that the volume of bombs and mines left from the war is around 800,000 tons, polluting more than 20% of Vietnam’s total area. All 63 provinces and cities in the country are polluted with mines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Duong Nguyen Kha Trang, Vietnam's representative at Miss Eco Universe 2016 pageant, performed a Vietnamese ao dai at the national costume competition on March 30.

 Boeing Co plans to cut up to 8,000 jobs this year at its commercial airplane division, according to two people familiar with the matter, a move that could slash $1 billion in costs and help it battle for sales against European rival Airbus.

 National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan was elected as the new Chairwoman of the NA and the National Election Council (NEC) on March 31 with a majority of votes.

The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) will sell 8% stake to JX Nippon Oil and Energy of Japan for the price of not less than VND38,000 ($1.8) per share to have money to restructure its loss-making subsidiary in Singapore.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Television Cycling Cup will begin on April 10 in Ha Noi and end on April 30 in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - Just within five days, the rice price in Mekong River Delta increased by VND300-350 per kilo after the forecast about poor crop.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visiting the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, visitors should not miss stop-over to contemplate a unique architectural work of a 100-year-old Wooden Church in downtown.

 Turkey imposes dumping duty on Vietnam steel pipes, Vietnam sees improvements in budget transparency, Purchasing power picks up 9.1% in Q1, Limit on bad loans to boost the local market, Agro-fishery-forestry exports rise to over $6.7b

 VietNamNet Bridge - About 5,300 cases of child sexual abuse were discovered in Vietnam in the past five year. Particularly, the cases of sexual abuse of boys were on the rise.