ASEAN could connect countries to address tensions in the East Sea, heard a recent international workshop in France.

 The Ministry of Transport will restructure the transport sector towards reducing the market share of road transport and expanding that of other modes, according to a scheme for transport restructuring in 2016-2020 with a view to 2025.

 The Government has decided to forge ahead with the country’s emissions reduction roadmap which requires new autos running on gasoline to meet the Euro 4 emissions standards from January 1 this year as proposed by the Ministry of Transport.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Top 10 socio-economic indicators in Q1, 2017 at the Government’s regular meeting for March.

 A proposal to increase the number of electric cars to boost Hanoi’s tourism has been rejected by the capital city’s People’s Committee.

 Although Vietnamese apparel company movement toward the stock market is an inevitable trend in a market economy, only 30 businesses of the sector’s total of 6,000 have listed so far.

Nikkei Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index notes continued monthly improvement in manufacturing sector.

  Thousands of people in HCM City's District 10 are risking their life in two old deteriorating apartment buildings that may collapse at any time. 

 AirAsia Bhd., the low-cost carrier headed by Malaysian tycoon Tony Fernandes, plans to start a Vietnamese carrier in a local partnership, as cheap fares and rising incomes fuel a travel surge in the Southeast Asian nation.

 Dozens of traders in Ha Tinh Province are facing huge losses as hundreds of tonnes of jellyfish cannot be sold due to the mass fish deaths caused by the Formosa pollution incident.

 The central bank is gradually introducing a raft of regulations to enforce laws that require local lenders to incorporate environmental and social risk management into their lending criteria.

 The project to expand T3 and T4 terminals of Tan Son Nhat International Airport has lured many big investors from all over the country.

 Petrolimex promised that its stock price will not be lower than VND39,000 ($1.7) per share.Besides, it will not divest entirely from its insurance, finance, and banking arms.

 Following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s order to stop the illegal use of injected substances in shrimp exports, authorities in the Mekong Delta have begun several measures to end the practice by the end of next year.

 Despite a drop in total dealflow, 2016 was a vibrant investment year for Vietnamese startups, according to a recent Topica Founder Institute (TFI) report.

 Hoang Le Kha High School of Tay Ninh Province and Tran Dai Nghia and Mac Dinh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot).

 The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bac Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials.

  The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve address number chaos in the city.

 A range of fresh policies coming into effect this month will force major changes nationwide, including registration before drawing money from the State budget and energy labels on cars and motorbikes.

 The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs announced on Sunday that it will temporarily stop enrolling workers from 58 districts to work in South Korea this year.