Eight teams will participate in this year’s edition of the VTV9-Binh Dien International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, to be held from April 22 to 30 in Tay Ninh Province.

 Over 22,500 overseas workers were sent abroad in Q1, marking a year-on-year surge of 8.7%, the Overseas Labor Management has reported.

Professor Carl Thayer (Australian Defense Force Academy), Dr. Huynh The Du (Harvard University, U.S) and Dr. Dang Hoang Giang shared with Zing.vn on the first year of the new Government.

 The visit of Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan to the Czech Republic is significant to enhancing the two countries’ ties, said Vice President of the board of the Czech Chamber of Commerce Borivoj Minar.

The implementation of the free trade agreement between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union will open opportunities to raise bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2020, Deputy PM Trinh Dinh Dung told Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Konstantin Vnukov.

 Vietnam’s auto industry, which has ploddingly developed for the last many years, will face tariff abolishment on products imported from ASEAN nations from January 1 next year.

 Environment quality monitoring will be provided on the city’s electric traffic board, said the department of environment & natural resource.

Vietnam’s retail petrol price is lower than neighboring countries and many ASEAN nations, said head of Tax Policy Department Pham Dinh Thi yesterday.

 Vien Dong Import-Export Company yesterday sent a letter of apology and $1,000 in compensation for a female tourist who stumbled over an iron hook left by the company.

 Ninh Thuan is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. Coming to Ninh Thuan, one can see images of nomadic people, with their sheep in farms, fields and mountain slopes.

 A joint venture has been proposed with the Airport Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to invest and construct new terminal T4 for the Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

 The recent suspension of rice importation by the Philippines, a major import market of Viet Nam’s rice, has sparked concern among local rice exporters.

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors are fleeing from BOT (build-operate-transfer) projects in the transport sector after encountering many difficulties. 

 Viet Nam catfish processors must prepare for the inspection programme of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in order to boost exports into this market.

 Vietnam is aiming for no new drug hotbeds and removing 10 percent of existing ones each year as a target of a drug prevention and control programme to 2020 freshly approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Ho Chi Minh City has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Nagano prefecture to forge cooperation in industrial production, tourism, agriculture and human resources development, according to Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper.

Vietnam’s national forest cover is targeted to reach 42% of the total land area, equivalent to 14.4 million hectares, by 2020.

Mr. Chris Jeffery, Dean of British University Vietnam, tells VET's Hai Van about its performance in 2016 and development strategies in 2017.

 "Understanding Employers' Attitudes Towards Women Returning To Work" whitepaper from professional recruitment firm Robert Walters identifies the many positives women returning to work can bring to their workplace.

The National Financial Supervisory Commission has recently released a report on the economic situation in the first quarter of 2017, which highlights an increasing trend among foreign investors to trade on Vietnam’s stock market.