A senior official of the Asian Development Bank has said Vietnam has been an active member of the Greater Mekong Sub-region programme.

 Most of Vietnamese people have been eating too much salt, nearly double the World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommend level of 5g per day, heard a workshop in Hanoi on March 27.

 A number of new vaccines will be used in the expanded national vaccination programme (NEVP), the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on March 27.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in 2018 is forecast to rise by 3.41 percent, 3.55 percent and 3.9 percent under the scenarios created by the aide group of the Government’s Steering Committee on Price Management. 

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has expected that her ongoing official visit to the Netherlands will further deepen the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the European country in general and the Dutch parliament in particular.

 Police from the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have arrested three people trafficking 135 bricks of heroin (48kg) and 500,000 synthetic drug pills.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a rehearsal of activities of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region Summit (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) in Hanoi on March 27. 

 Business establishment procedures are handled at the single-window section of the Department of Planning and Investment of Binh Duong province

 Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh met with senior officers from the French Ministry of Defence to discuss a wide range of measures to boost defence cooperation between Vietnam and France.

 National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said on March 27 that it has launched a new air route connecting Nha Trang city in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa with Seoul capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Vietjet and Safran Aircraft Engines on March 27 signed a Memorandum of Understanding on comprehensive collaboration under the witness of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Vietnam and France have agreed to chart a new course for the bilateral relationship during the talks between Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on March 27.

Vietnam and France have agreed to chart a new course for the bilateral relationship during the talks between General Secretary of CPV Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on March 27.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese shipping firms have been losing their domestic market share to foreigners.

Alarmed about the increasing adolescent abortion rate and the average age of the first sexual experience, experts have urged parents to begin giving sex and gender education lessons to their children at an early age.

The renewable power market has heated up in the last two years. Investment promotion conferences have been held and more projects have been registered by both Vietnamese and foreign investors.

VietNamNet Bridge - Within three hours, more than 100 volunteers from IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) recently collected 2.5 tons of waste on Ang Du Beach of Ha Long Bay.

 Hoang Trung, director general of the Plant Protection Department, talks to the newspaper Countryside Today on his department’s resolve to eliminate low quality fertiliser from the market

In the reviewed period, there were 26,785 newly-established enterprises with total registered capital of VND 278,489 billion, up 1.2% and 2.7% in terms of number of enterprises and investment capital, respectively.

 A regional training workshop on public weather services opened in Hanoi on March 27 for countries participating in the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP).