Over 130 photos featuring the beauty of landscapes and daily life across the country are being displayed at an art photo festival held in Hanoi from April 20 to 25.

 U19 Vietnam were crowned champions at the 2017 International U19 Football Tournament in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province, as they beat U19 Gwangju from the Republic of Korea 2-0 on April 22.

 Performances of hot-air balloons will be organized from April 27 to the opening ceremony of the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2017 on April 30.

 Several experts in HCM City have blamed motorbikes for causing congestion and proposed plans to ban motorbikes in the city.

 Vietnam has a rich treasure of traditional musical instruments, of which bamboo instruments are the oldest.

 Two parliamentarians from the Party of European Socialists namely Eric Andrieu and Marc Tarabella have announced that they will request the establishment of a commission of inquiry on the US chemical group Monsanto.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam attended a working group meeting in Moscow from April 21-23 to prepare for the 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties and celebrations of 100 years of Russia’s October Revolution.

 A visit to Cambodia from April 24-25 by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will be his first official trip to the neighbouring country in the post of the Government leader of Vietnam. 

 The ninth meeting of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee concluded in Hanoi on April 22.

 The 11th international women’s volleyball tournament – VTV9 Binh Dien Cup kicked off in the southern province of Tay Ninh on April 22.

 Feeding the growing populace with both nutritious and sustainable food will require substantial improvements to what is currently a ‘broken’ national food system, says the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many bankers dream of providing wealth management services, especially in an attractive market like Vietnam.  

 The implementation of a national 4G mobile broadband network will have positive growth impacts beyond the telecommunication and the eCommerce sectors, experts say.

 After a fire in a karaoke bar in Hanoi's Cau Giay district killed 13 people last November, local officials knew they had to do something to prevent such nightmarish scenes.

A list of four major flaws in Vietnam’s education compiled by Nguyen Tuan Hai, the owner of an education establishment in Hanoi, has been disseminated among the public. Many parents have admitted that they make at least one of the four mistakes. 

 Farmers should increase the application of bio-organic-based integrated pest management to sustain the health of the soil, preserve bio-diversity and improve agricultural product quality and safeguard people’s health.

Miners have given back their mines and left Ha Giang province after causing serious consequences to the local environment, but the environmental protection fees were not enough to compensate for the pollution local people are suffering. 

Nguyen Duc Thanh from VEPR believes that Vietnam’s agriculture is suffering from so-called Dutch disease. It is still fumbling for ways to develop, though it leads the world in the output of some products. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The movie “Ice and the Sky” (La Glace et le Ciel) (France, 2013, 113’) by director Bertrand Tavernier will be screened at the L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi and April 28. 

 Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) said on April 18 it had received approval from the central bank to sell more than 50% of its shares to foreign investors.