VietNamNet Bridge - The number of university students has soared in recent years. Many schools gained 10,000 more students over one to two years despite their ill fame. 

President Tran Dai Quang asked for Japan’s continued assistance in responding to climate change, especially drought and saline intrusion, while receiving Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Fukada Hiroshi.

 President Tran Dai Quang hosted a warm reception in Hanoi on April 19 for Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Konstantin Vnukov, assuring his guest that Russia is a high priority in Vietnam’s diplomatic policy.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Business losses and wasteful spending resulting in trillions of VND debt have caused many seafood processing companies in the Mekong Delta to go insolvent. Some have had to go to jail.

Spending via e-commerce channels increased 37% year-on-year.

With nearly half of its seafood exports going to Trans-Pacific Partnership member nations, Vietnam expects the trade deal to further boost exports to these markets.

 Some 200 working positions will be available at the 2016 French-Vietnamese Job Fair to be held at the Hanoi Intercontinental Westlake Hotel from 8a.m to 12p.m on April 23.

  Thailand has become Viet Nam's leading automobile exporter in the first quarter of this year, with a volume of more than 7,800 units, a 64.5 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.

 Japanese oil firm Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd (Idemitsu) and its partner Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd. (KPI) applied to register a joint venture company in Viet Nam to sell petroleum products.

 Environmental police in Hanoi have seized 1.3 tonnes of food and additives whose origin is unknown and 10,000 packs of various kinds of candy.

 The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka, Japan, is actively carrying out measures to support Vietnamese nationals affected by the recent back-to-back earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and its surrounding areas.

 Women take 24.2 percent of the seats in Vietnam’s National Assembly in the 13th tenure (2011 – 2016), ranking the country 54th among the 190 surveyed nations and fourth among the 10 ASEAN member states.

 Key Party officials from ministries, central agencies, organisations and provinces and cities are gathering at a national conference in Hanoi to study the Resolution and documents issued by the 12th National Party Congress.

A group of Vietnamese and international experts recently published the research on relations between rapid erosion in the Mekong Delta and human activities

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have pointed out that it is unreasonable to impose low tax on discouraged products such as beer while imposing high taxes on milk. 

 Vietnam registered a trade surplus of 1.36 billion USD in the first quarter of 2016, Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) newspaper reported. 

 The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) captured a Vietnamese fishing vessel with 14 crew members on April 17 accused of illegally fishing in waters off Tok Bali, Kelantan state.

 Vietnam will host a conference promoting the Asia-Europe partnership in the 21st century on April 20, representing one of the country’s significant efforts to deepen relations between the two continents.

The Vietnamese Permanent Representative to the UN has affirmed Vietnam’s support for the peaceful settlement of the protracted Israel-Palestine conflict in accordance with relevant UN resolutions while calling for an end to all acts of violence.

 Seven groups of Indochinese gray langurs, with 192-212 living in the Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Thanh Hoa province, are endangered due to local residents’ hunting, the Nature Reserve’s management board said.