Immediate measures and long-term plans should be implemented quickly to help provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta cope with drought and saline intrusion, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh has said.

A number of wells that have been supplying large quantities of water in HCM City are being filled up since the city’s 100,000 or so wells have been identified as one of the main reasons for land subsidence.

The new general education programme issued by the Ministry of Education and Training at the end of last year will be applied for the 2020-21 school year.

 Vietnam’s aquaculture exports will face stronger competition from India in the traditional market of Japan, because India is striving to triple the domestic aquatic product output in the near future.

 Viet Nam’s stricter regulations on unsecured consumer lending are credit positive for finance companies, according to a recent credit outlook report released by the credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service.

 Vietnam continued to witness a number of sizable FDI transactions and projects in the first quarter (Q1) this year, with the biggest coming from Hong Kong. 

 Growing middle class is picked up among reasons attributed to the record growth of nearly US$6 billion by the year.

 With an estimated capital sum touching VND1.855 trillion ($80.7 million) for Dien Bien Airport’s new passenger terminal-related infrastructure, Vietjet proposes carrying out the project under the BOT format for 55 years.

 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has posted an introduction to the benefits of dragon fruit, a key export of Viet Nam.

 Around 48% of Vietnamese consumers are shifting to buy premium products at local online shops, compared with 69% still going to local physical stores, a latest report by global measurement company Nielsen revealed.

 The final Vietnam squad for the upcoming AFC U23 Championship 2020 qualifiers has been announced by the official website of the Asian Federation Confederation. 

 Stars under the national senior football team, who are over the age of 22, are having a great change to join the men's football at the upcoming 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2019 in the Philippines later this year.

 Former general director of the State-run PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) Do Van Khanh, 58, was accused of receiving interest payments worth more than VND4 billion under the counter from OceanBank.

Just eight months after the official launch, Vietnam has become the fastest growing market in Southeast Asia of GrabFood, outside of Indonesia. What are the reasons behind this tremendous achievement?

 Credit expansion of state-owned banks was lower than commercial banks’, in which the current lack of capital of the former was a key factor in limiting the credit growth potential of those banks.

 The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) on March 13 decided to nullify the granted licences and not to grant new ones for flights using the Boeing 737 Max to enter Vietnam’s airspace.

 The HCMC authorities should review the prevailing legal frameworks and the financial capacity of investors while seeking investments in projects on the city’s prime sites.

 The Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro held a ceremony in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on March 8 to welcome the first flow of oil it pumped up from Ca Tam field. 

 Owner’s equity in non-life insurance companies was estimated to amount to a total of VND26.280 trillion (US$1.14 billion) last year, a 4.8 per cent rise against the previous year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Finance.