Industrial real estate may well be among the industry’s more promising sectors this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign online booking agents are fiercely competing for the online tourism market worth $9 billion in Vietnam.

 The PM has agreed to adjustments to the general planning of Da Nang city.

 Hanoi is home to 25 of the 60 real estate projects in 10 cities and provinces that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) proposed the Government Inspectorate to investigate for signs of violations.

 Controversy has been raised after the image of the former tourism ambassador Ly Nha Ky was spotted next to the advertising boards promoting Vietnam.

 Viet Nam’s campaign at the Asian Football Confederation U20 Futsal Championship came to a halt after it lost 1-3 to Japan on Saturday.

 The Hanoi University of Social Sciences & Humanities (USSH) has introduced a bookcase named after late Japanese archaeologist Nishimura Masanari, who has been remembered for his devotion to Vietnam’s archaeology.

 Up to 100,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice will be shipped to the EU each year tax-free in 2018 following the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement, helping local rice exporters penetrate the market.

 The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism was inaugurated in October 2010, coinciding with the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. The village is an excellent place to learn about Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups.

Debutantes Viet Nam pulled off a stunning straight-set 25-20, 25-19, 25-19 victory over Chinese Taipei to claim the historic bronze medal at the second Asian Women’s U23 Volleyball Championship

Drowning is still one of the leading causes of mortality among children in Viet Nam, despite efforts to deal with the problem. Concern is re-surfacing ahead of the coming summer months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities are considering requiring high-rises of 20 floors or more to have helipads for search-and-rescue missions during natural disasters or fires.

 Four Vietnamese students have received top awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.

 People’s Artist Le Ngoc Canh is known as Vietnam’s first dance professor. Over the past 70 years, Canh has carried out research on the folk dances of different areas of Vietnam and created dances of highly artistic value.

 With special love and sympathy for the deprivation of ethnic minority children, 34-year-old Ngo Thi Ly of Kon Nhen village in Kon Tum province has turned her house into a library where children can read, study, and play.

 The government will not propose the National Assembly (NA) to adjust the economic growth target in its third session, which is scheduled to take place on May 22, 2017.

 A list of all housing projects in which foreign organisations and individuals are not allowed to make purchases is being publicised by local authorities at the urgent bidding of the government.

 There is a VND130-140 trillion ($5.72-$6.16 billion) credit package for hi-tech agricultural projects, however, few firms have been able to access it due to cautious banks.

 President Tran Dai Quang has expressed his appreciation for the relations between Vietnam and Canada, wishing to bolster the bilateral multi-dimensional cooperation in a more practical manner.

 President Tran Dai Quang told Russian Minister of Economic Development Maksim Oreshkin at a meeting on May 21 that he will make a State visit to Russia in June at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.