While banks have revealed optimistic profit targets for 2016, actual figures may be more modest due to the risk provisions banks must set aside likely eating into their earnings.

 The Carnaval Ha Long 2016 is slated to take place on April 30 at the October 30 Square in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, according to the municipal authorities.

  Germer, established by a group of HCMC Conservatory of Music students, is searching for talent to perform at its concert to raise funds for poor kids of Loreto Vietnam Australia Program (LVAP).

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 10 years ago, authorities in HCM City made plans to build underground parking lots but due to various reasons, plans remained on paper, even as traffic jams increased and the number of registered vehicles soared.

 Fund manager VinaCapital has injected US$50 million into two private firms in Vietnam in the year to date and will find more enterprises for investment this year.

 China’s island building in the East Sea is hurting the ecology and the environment, according to a report released by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

 A recent lowball tax declaration of US$62,340 by Nguyen Ha Dong, creator of Flappy Bird, a Vietnamese mobile game that created quite a whirlwind last year, has created quite a tax flap, according to officials.

 Vietnam resolutely rejects and demands that China immediately end its encroachment of Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa, withdraw its jet fighters from this area and not to repeat similar acts.

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) in collaboration with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on April 14 launched the “Vietnam Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) and Sound Harmful Chemicals Management Project”.

 The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) on April 14 elected Bui Van Cuong as its President to replace Dang Ngoc Tung.

 Police in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau brought 185 drug addicts back to a drug rehab and vocational centre as of 11am on April 14 after a large group of 447 escaped from the centre the previous night.

 The Government Inspectorate detected four corruption cases involving six people with a combined monetary value of $139,500 in the first three months of 2016, heard a press conference in Hanoi on April 14.

 Sewage discharge was the culprit responsible for a mass fish kill earlier this month in central Ha Tinh Province’s Ky Anh Town, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s environmental and disease monitoring centre announced.

  Events in Vietnam's major cities from April 15-30. Daily updated

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam's agricultural products are at risk of being surrounded by high-quality agricultural products from North American countries and New Zealand after the TPP takes effect.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On April 12, with a majority of votes, the National Assembly formally adopted the resolution on the plan of socio-economic development of Vietnam for the period from 2016 to 2020.

 A train was forced to make an emergency stop yesterday after dozens of motorbike users simply ignored warning lights and the barriers and occupied the rail track.

Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien sent an urgent dispatch to the National Children Hospital in Hanoi ordering to cure the girl with giant tumor on her body as per an announcement of the Ministry on April 13. 

Giang My, a beauty queen and businesswoman of Vietnam, has been appointed by the President of the Republic of Palau as the Honourable Goodwill Ambassador to promote tourism between the Republic of Palau and South East Asian nations.

 Microsoft Viet Nam and this central city have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a business start-up support programme in Da Nang.