Vietnam U20 went up against U21 Roda JC, one of the premiere league teams in the Netherlands, in a friendly match yesterday (Apr. 23) at the Seghemanstraat Stadium in Germany.

 The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications has asked local telecom providers to disconnect more than 600 illegal phone numbers of businesses that provide classified advertisements since the beginning of the year.

 The official visit of Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chung Sye-kyun from April 24-26, aims to promote the strategic partnership between the two nations.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), which is now drafting the Law on Planning, is attempting to reduce overlapping development plans.

Chairman of Vietnam Railway Corporation Vu Anh Minh spoke about the $309 million plan to upgrade the sector's infrastructure for the 2017-2021 period. 

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 Hoang Thi Bao Tram (HCM City) and Tran Tuan Minh (Hanoi) won first prizes in the women and men’s standard chess categories of the 2017 National Chess Tournament.

 Beverages accounted for the largest proportion of all fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sales in the first quarter of this year, at roughly 45 per cent, according to the Quarterly Market Pulse report released by Nielsen Vietnam.

Seafood farmers in Ly Son Island, Quang Ngai Province, have suffered billions of dong in losses after their lobsters died and prices dropped. 

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse officially begin their official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from April 24-25 at the invitation of his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

A man in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been detained for trying to bring USD400,000 into the country.

 A musical show took place in Ho Chi Minh City on April 22, featuring two one-armed guitarists, Vietnamese teacher Nguyen The Vinh and Japanese Prof. Hashimoto Michinori.

 On April 22 thousands of young Hanoians gathered for the third annual Color Me Run-a Vietnam’s most amazing and colorful race at at Vinhomes Riverside Ecological Urban Area.

 As many as 11 foreign bloggers from Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan (China) are making a week-long tour of Vietnam until April 28 to discover numerous places of interest throughout the nation.

Viettel Tanzania Limited Company (Halotel) is completing an IPO prospectus and corporate valuation in preparation for its IPO filing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) in Tanzania this month, Viettel Global reported. 

 More than 1,000 volunteers from the US Embassy, associations, organisations and universities, joined hands to pick up garbage in Thong Nhat Park Saturday morning to mark Earth Day here.

 Quang Nam Province has begun construction of the Hoi An Royal Residences project, with total investment of VNĐ1 trillion (US$44.2 million) in Cam An Commune in the suburbs of Hoi An City.

 PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) will make its initial public offering (IPO) this August, the electricity producer announced.

 Ho Chi Minh City plans to increase the number of compressed natural gas (CNG) – powered buses with a view of running 841 CNG buses on 39 routes by the end of this year.

The Supreme People’s Procuracies of Vietnam and China signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in Beijing on April 23 within the framework of the Vietnamese procuracy delegation’s working visit to China.