To facilitate the development of private startups, the Law on Supporting Small-and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) will offer plenty of incentives ad foster the establishment of private investment funds to provide them with loans.

The head of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism, Nguyen Van Tuan, tells Kinh te & Do thi newspaper that localities need tailored mechanism to curb poor-quality tours.

The Ministry of Finance has agreed to pay out VND10 billion ($440,000) from the state budget to the Binh Thuan Province People's Court to compensate Huynh Van Nen who was wrongly imprisoned for 17 years.

 Banks are hesitant to go public over the persistent challenging business environment.

British composer Michael Price, who won an Emmy award for outstanding music composition for the BBC TV series, Sherlock, will come to Vietnam for the first time to participate in workshops on music for 15 Vietnamese students.

 Vietnam and Thailand convened their 11th bilateral conference on drug prevention and control cooperation in the central coastal city of Da Nang on April 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City saw a decrease in the number of strikes last year compared to 2015 thanks to a project on labour relations that began in 2014, 

 At a workshop in HCM City last week, she introduced her company’s herbicide to many scientists, agriculturists and plant protection specialists.

The fourth industrial revolution will present a challenge for Vietnam’s textiles and garment sector within the next five years, according to Mr. Le Tien Truong, CEO of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group.

The first industrial waste power generation plant in Vietnam was officially put into operation at the Nam Son Waste Treatment Complex in Hanoi’s outlying district of Soc Son on April 24.

 The total investment for the urban railway project Hanoi Metro line 2 Nam Thang Long-Tran Hung Dao has been increased by VND16 trillion ($704 million), although the project has yet to be implemented.

 Former US women’s national team footballer Linda Hamilton, who won the World Cup in 1991, and coach Lisa Berg had a training session with Vietnamese female footballers as part of the Sports Envoy programme in Da Nang on April 25.

 Ngo Tri Long, former head of the Institute for Market and Price Research under the Ministry of Finance blamed both Chinese contractors and Vietnamese investors for 12 failing major projects.

 The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in HCM City is a combined exhibition and workshop space.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been witnessing a new wave of investments in hospitals since 2015 after the government called for different sources of funding in the healthcare sector.

 The Secretariat of the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region has announced that Vietnam could be blacklisted due to low-quality of its vessels and a high number of detained vessels overseas.

 At least four people were killed and two injured when a north-south train crashed into a vehicle on Monday afternoon in the southern province of Binh Dinh in Tuy Phuoc District.

 It is very easy to see advertising or leaflets in every corner of HCM City despite of a ban and heavier fines.

For more than a month, manufacturers based in Tan Hong industrial cluster in Hai Duong have discharged untreated wastewater into irrigation canals, polluting the section of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system that passes through the region.

The Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra will perform a colourful and multi-faceted concert at the French Cultural Centre under the baton of conductor Kim Xuan Hieu and with soloists Pham Van Hieu and Tran Hien on April 26 & 27.