The HCMC Public Passenger Transport Management and Operation Center on April 7 proposed the HCMC Department of Transport seek the municipal government’s approval for a bus fare increase by VND1,000 from May 1.

The fact that 80 percent of students got scores below average in English at the high school finals clearly shows the inefficiency of the program on teaching English at general schools.

 Le Quang Liem has dropped out of the list of international super grandmasters after suffering a poor run of form during the ongoing Dubai Open in the UAE.

 Two suspects have been arrested for trafficking a nine-year-old girl to China by police in Ky Son district, Nghe An province.

 HCM City’s Military High Command will be in charge of organising a 15-minute fireworks display at three locations across the city including at the nation’s tallest building Landmark 81, Thu Thiem tunnel, and Dam Sen cultural park.

 Vietnam is studying and will be capable of producing vaccine against the African swine fever, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at a recent meeting in Hanoi.

 A woman has been accused of being part of an international drug ring that took part in smuggling large quantities of heroin into China from Vietnam’s northwestern provinces.

 Standard &Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings has announced that it has raised Vietnam’s sovereign rating to ‘BB’ from ‘BB-‘, with a stable outlook.

VietNamNet Bridge - International institutions have predicted high GDP growth rates for Vietnam in 2019, but do not expect them to be more than 7 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the face of the growing threat to the Mekong Delta, experts believe that the only solution is to restore natural aquifers.

 Mr. Pham Hong Phong, Managing Director of Oracle Vietnam, shares his views with VET on the technology landscape in Vietnam.

 Market researcher Inholic Research releases latest report on Vietnam's LED market to 2022.

 A boat on the Red River has become an ideal guesthouse for dozens of manual workers who try to save on their modest incomes in Hanoi.

 Many illegal construction works still exist on Phu Quoc Island despite the government’s instruction to deal with the problem.

Four kilometers in length, the pedestrian street along To Lich River in the southwest of Hanoi is the longest of its kind in the capital.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and Vice Chairwoman of the China National People’s Congress Standing Committee Shen Yueyue pledged to promote bilateral parliamentary ties at their meeting in Doha yesterday.

 Online import and export activities of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to develop further due to the low number of them currently embracing e-commerce, according to experts.

 Ho Chi Minh City plans to carry out 218 anti-flooding works this year at a cost of nearly 8 trillion VND (345 million USD).

 Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan had a meeting with Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka Karu Jayasuriya on April 7 on the sidelines of the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-140) in Doha, Qatar.

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