Vietnamese athletes won two gold medals yesterday in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix 2017 in Jinhua, a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang Province in eastern China.

A group of Israeli fashion designers from the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art will present their latest collections at the fourth Viet Nam International Fashion Week 2017. 

Vietnam is targeting keeping public debt, comprising central government debt, government-backed loans, and local government debt, below 65 percent of GDP between 2016 and 2018.

 Vietnamese aerobic athletes grabbed one gold, four silver and two bronze medals from the FIG World Cup Series Tokyo International which closed on April 23.

 Shares dropped further in the two local exchanges on April 24 as investors remained cautious about market conditions, pulling blue chips down.

A number of Vietnamese firms reached partnership deals with Myanmar companies during the Vietnam-Myanmar Trade-Services-Tourism Fair 2017 in Yangon, as part of their market research trip lasting two weeks.

 The corporate profit growth stood at 7.5 percent from 2010 – 2015, falling 60 percent from the rate of the 2005-2010 period, according to the General Statistics Office under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 Vietnam’s aviation sector must use advanced technologies such as e-commerce for its management, operations and business as it is a trend in global aviation transport, experts said in HCM City.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh has urged the four central coastal localities affected by the recent environmental incident to thoroughly complete compensation by June 30 this year, thus moving to support their livelihood and recover maritime environment.

The Government Inspectorate disclosed on April 24 the outcomes of its activities in the first quarter of 2017, noting that it found violations of economic regulations involving $1.84 billion and 168ha of land.

 The Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested two members of a drug trading racket while seizing 4.2 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, 292 ecstasy pills, two guns and VND1 billion ($44,000).

 Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chung Sye-kyun on April 24 began a three-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni right after his arrival in the country on April 24.

 Hoang Binh Quan, member of the Party Central Committee and head of the Committee’s Commission for External Relations, is visiting Kazakhstan from April 20 to 25, at the invitation of the ruling Democratic People's Party Nur Otan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the 30th ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Manila, the Philippines from April 28-29.

 Vietnam hopes to learn from Singapore’s experience in the management of environment and water resources as well as environmental quality improvement and green city development, stated President Tran Dai Quang.

 Acting President of the Republic of Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn said he evaluates growing strategic partnership with Vietnam while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tu, who came to present his credentials on April 24.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and visiting Foreign Minister of New Zealand Murray McCully have agreed to continue fostering development momentum to lift the bilateral relations to a higher level during their talks yesterday. 

"If we had not opened the market to create a telecommunication and internet competitive market, we would have found it difficult to sign BTA and WTO, i.e hindering the country’s development and integration," said Mai Liem Truc.

Gu Bla, one of the main sculptural works used in the Cor ethnic group’s buffalo sacrifice festival in Tra Bong district in the central province of Quang Ngai, is slowly being forgotten as the festival’s popularity decreases.