The existing 2014 Investment Law and Decision No 19/2015/QD-TTg have adjusted the content of Article 18 of the Law on High Technology No 21/2008/QH12, concerning the criteria used to evaluate hi-tech enterprises.

 The Festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will be organised in Hanoi on May 14-15, announced a press conference in the capital on April 20.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a strategy for crime prevention and combat aimed at reducing crime and social ills, ensuring social order and safety and supporting national development.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong is participating in the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem, which opened at the UN headquarters in New York on April 19.

 A surge of US$5.9 billion in overseas foreign currency deposits by local commercial banks in the third quarter of last year was normal, said director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s Forecast and Statistics Department, To Huy Vu.

 Hail storms have killed one and injured two people in Ha Giang province on April 19, according to the provincial steering committee on natural disasters.

 The first consultative meeting of Eurasian parliament speakers took place in Moscow on April 19, aiming to boost parliamentary cooperation between Asian-European countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge - As unsafe food has become a big concern of Vietnamese consumers, many foreign enterprises consider this an investment opportunity.

VietNamNet Bridge – Let’s review Vietnam’s tragic history to compare the naval battle of Hoang Sa and Beijing's careful preparation for the invasion of Vietnam’s Gac Ma Reef.

VietNamNet Bridge - If 10 years ago, the coast of Nha Trang was clear, now a series of high-rise buildings, hotels are built along the coast, creating a windbreak wall and obscuring vision.

VietNamNet Bridge - It is expected that the spending on electronics and refrigeration products in Vietnam will reach VND157 trillion a year by 2020, including VND60 trillion on the former and VND97 trillion on the latter.

 American motorbike producers Indian Motorcycle and Victory Motorcycles have launched their products in Vietnam through their authorized distributor, Tran Mah Co Ltd.

 A heat wave that has struck HCMC and elsewhere in the nation’s south is forecast to last until the end of May with temperatures reaching 37-39 degrees Celsius, said the deputy director of the southern weather center.    

Vietnam Airlines got approval for a plan to sell and then lease three Airbus A350 aircraft late last year, just before taking delivery of these wide-body jetliners in 2016-2017, to gradually slash loans guaranteed by the Government.

 The sharp increase in the number of patients suffering from cancer has put more stress on the country’s social insurance fund which faces a deficit.

 The increase to the minimum salary in 2017 will be less than the 2016 increase of 12.4 per cent, according to Mr. Pham Minh Huan, Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and Chairman of the National Wage Council.

 Images of congestion and chaos from millions of pilgrims at Hung Temple in the northern Phu Tho Province flooded social networks and mass media on Saturday, the main day of the Hung Kings Temple Festival.

 Vietnam won two gold and five bronze medals at the Asian Taekwondo Poomsae Championships, which closed in the Philippines on Monday.

 Vietnam are in the “Group of Death” at the ASEAN U-16 Football Championship.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the assistance of smartphones, doctors can see the electrocardiography (ECG) process, which allows them to diagnose patients from afar.