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Lao Party chief reasserts special attention to relations with Vietnam

General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith met with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi this morning.

K+ wins exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League

On April 25, K+ Satellite Digital Television announced that it has acquired the broadcast rights of the English Premier League (EPL) in the 2016-19 season.

WEF Managing Director discusses start-up entrepreneurship with young Vietnamese

Dr. Philipp Rösler, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and former German Vice-Chancellor, met young Vietnamese in Hanoi on April 25 to discuss startups in the context of global integration.

China enhances military forces to monopoly East Sea

From "civil arms" such as fishing boats, marine surveillance vessels and giant oil rigs to occupying rocks and turning them into artificial islands to serve “civil purpuses”, China has revealed the plot of militarization in the East Sea.

The seafood tycoons who have taken hard knocks

VietNamNet Bridge - Taking losses in business, wasting money and incurring trillions of dong debts, some ‘seafood kings’ in Mekong River Delta have fallen from their pinnacle of prosperity into insolvency.

Fee dispute in Tan Duc IP runs higher

Tan Duc industrial park has decided to withdraw the lawsuit against the Japanese confectionery producer-Tango Candy Co. Ltd. from the Duc Hoa District People’s Court to send to the Ho Chi Minh City Commercial Arbitration Centre.

Japanese carrier lands VN Airlines stake deal

 All Nippon Airways, Japan’s largest airline group by revenue and passenger number, is expected to earn around $9.1 million annually from the acquisition of a stake in national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines.

Vietnamese female rower qualified for Rio Olympics

 Pham Thi Hue yesterday earned the 15th Olympic slot for Vietnam after her success during the rowing qualification tournament in South Korea.

Vietnamese athlete makes gold hattrick at IPC Grand Prix

 Nguyen Thi Hai brought home three gold medals from the IPC Athletics Grand Prix, which wrapped up in Beijing, China yesterday.

Long-delayed multi-billion Binh Dinh refinery project stuttering

  The long-awaited multi-billion US dollar refinery project is facing an uncertain future after nearly three years of registration for investment.

Vietnam a new hot spot for tech start-ups

 When Singaporean Alvin Koh was running his coffee shop in Ha Noi 's Tay Ho District a few years ago, he noticed that it was nearly impossible to track the number of customers who came back to the shop, in essence, their loyalty to the place.

Mass fish die-off still unexplained

 A dead whale found on a beach in central Thua Thien - Hue yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.

Three die from suspected gas leak

Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hung My Commune, in the southernmost Ca Mau Province’s Cai Nuoc District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.

Vietnam calls for highest efforts to realise Paris climate deal

  Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha has called on all countries to exert highest efforts and ambitions to implement their submitted intended nationally determined contributions to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Vietnam loses 0-7 to Japan in futsal friendly match

 Vietnam’s national futsal team could not surprise Japan in their friendly match in Kariya, Japan on April 22.

HCM City wins national Vovinam championships

 Ho Chi Minh City successfully defended its title at the National Vovinam Clubs Championships which closed in the southern province of An Giang on April 22.

Ancient banyan in Thua Thien–Hue named heritage tree

  A several-century-old banyan tree in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been certificated as a Vietnamese Heritage Tree by the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment.

Microsoft Office Specialist World Champs qualifying round opens

 The national qualifying round of the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) in Thai Nguyen province opened on April 24.

Vietnamese in Switzerland protest China’s illegal acts in East Sea

About 50 Vietnamese and people from other nations in Switzerland on April 23 protested in Zurich against Chinese violations of Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty and international law in the East Sea.

Vietnam joins ASEAN defence meeting in Laos

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Head of the Institute for International Defence Relations, Major General Vu Tien Trong participated in the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials Meeting (ADSOM) in Vientiane, Laos on April 23.