Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday said Viet Nam must slash the total time needed to prepare and file yearly tax payments to the ASEAN average of 171 hours per year by the end of this year.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong called for expeditious, transparent and timely trials for serious and complicated corruption cases during his meeting with the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption in Hanoi on March 31 .

 The 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly adopted a resolution on countering the evolving threats of terrorism, with two thirds of approval vote during its plenary session on March 31.

 There is ample opportunity for Vietnam and the US to elevate their relations to a strategic partnership, said Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh reiterated Vietnam’s commitments to negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership while meeting Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in Hanoi on March 31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Early this year, we made an interesting adventure into C7 Cave of the Chu B’luk vocanic cave system in Krong No District in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has rejected a proposal on offering tax incentives to the Chu Lai Open Economic Zone (EZ) in the central province of Quang Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has asked high schools to continue the teaching schedule until May 31, but teachers and students say they need more time to prepare for upcoming high school exams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Japanese companies are expected to promote foreign investment. Vietnam is capable of receiving a new wave of investment from Japan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The competitive power wholesale market will be kicked off early next year following an approved road map and power plants to join the market are forecast to outnumber those on the existing power generation market. 

The warning about losses that could be incurred by the two bauxite projects in the Central Highlands has become a reality. 

  About 70 reporters from across the nation voted for the Music Devotion Awards today at the Vietnam News Agency in Ha Noi and its branch office in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign direct investment could sharply jump in the second half of this year, after the amended Investment Law and Enterprise Law take effect in July 2015.

 The death toll from traffic accidents in March surged, with 169 more fatalities recorded than during the same month last year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Moody's in a recent report said that enhancing merger of banks is a positive move to help eliminate small banks, including weak ones.

 Director Nguyen Hoang Diep's first feature film, entitled "Dap Canh Giua Khong Trung" (Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere), has won three prizes at the 29th Fribourg International Film Festival.

 A traffic accident on National Route 32 killed at least five people near Ha Noi's Phuc Tho District yesterday afternoon.

 Vietnam and Ethiopia unveiled on March 31 that they have reached an agreement to cooperate in the field of heritage management, said Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

 Vietnamese Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong and his Republic of Korea (RoK) counterpart Hwang Kyo-ahn signed a cooperation agreement between the two ministries following their recent talks in Seoul.

 National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung’s election as President of the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-132) is of significant importance in the Vietnam NA history, stated Tran Van Hang, Chairman of the NA Committee for External Affairs.