Up to 100,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice will be shipped to the EU each year tax-free in 2018 following the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement, helping local rice exporters penetrate the market.

 Four Vietnamese students have received top awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.

 With special love and sympathy for the deprivation of ethnic minority children, 34-year-old Ngo Thi Ly of Kon Nhen village in Kon Tum province has turned her house into a library where children can read, study, and play.

 The government will not propose the National Assembly (NA) to adjust the economic growth target in its third session, which is scheduled to take place on May 22, 2017.

 A list of all housing projects in which foreign organisations and individuals are not allowed to make purchases is being publicised by local authorities at the urgent bidding of the government.

 There is a VND130-140 trillion ($5.72-$6.16 billion) credit package for hi-tech agricultural projects, however, few firms have been able to access it due to cautious banks.

 President Tran Dai Quang has expressed his appreciation for the relations between Vietnam and Canada, wishing to bolster the bilateral multi-dimensional cooperation in a more practical manner.

 President Tran Dai Quang told Russian Minister of Economic Development Maksim Oreshkin at a meeting on May 21 that he will make a State visit to Russia in June at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.

 Vietnam and Indonesia should actively prepare for the 7th session of the Joint Committee on Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation to seek more ways to achieve a trade value of $10 billion as set.

 The third plenary session of the 14th National Assembly opened in Hanoi on the morning of May 22 with the opening ceremony broadcast live on national television and radio channels.

The domestic market will open more widely to foreign cars as enterprises now will not be required to submit as many documents as they did before, as stipulated in Circular No 20/2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more technological products, many of them created by young people, have been invented in Vietnam to help the disabled. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has kicked off plans to reform the national educational system, but considerable progress has not been made.

Will the $80 million project on reforming general education be successful, or will it fail like other multi-trillion projects, including the classification of majors, VNEN and national program on foreign language teaching?

VietNamNet Bridge - Acid deposition and photochemical smog have appeared in recent years, mostly in summer months when the weather is dry and hot, especially in large urban areas such as Hanoi and HCMC.

 Viet Nam’s first oil refinery operator Binh Son Refinery and Petrochemical Co Ltd (BSR) has planned its domestic initial public offering (IPO) with 5-6 per cent of its capital in the fourth quarter of the year.

 Viet Nam’s export turnover reached US$62.09 billion in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 16.8 per cent, the General Department of Vietnam Customs reported.

 Increased access to funding and new legislations are among the measures being rolled out by the Vietnamese government to support the country’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

 Beginning Friday night, traffic on the historic Long Bien Bridge, a symbol of the capital city, will be limited to carry out recoating of the bridge’s concrete surface.

 Three years ago, Le Quoc Duc, a 30-year-old man in Da Lat City of Lam Dong Province, decided to quit his white-collar job at a State-owned company to become a farmer.