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Heritage Festival to promote Quang Nam tourism

The 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival to be held in early June will be an opportunity for the central province to solicit investment for tourism development. 

SMEs seek support to build their own brands

With their limitations in terms of capital, management, technologies and brand building, Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need support to stay afloat amid the country’s global integration, 

Hanoi prosecutors annul decision to arrest Dong Tam resident

The capital city’s prosecuting agency, Ha Noi People’s Procuracy, today anulled a decision taken the local police on April 15 relating to the arrest of a senior resident over a land-reclaimation protest.

Clearer guidance needed for support industry tax incentive policy

The government has released a series of incentives and policies in recent years to boost Vietnam’s support industry (SI), but improvements are yet to be fully seen.

Foreign capital eyeing Vietnamese fintech

 Foreign investment funds have expressed renewed interested in Vietnamese financial technology startups, despite a series of challenging setbacks that occurred in previous e-commerce deals.

Cheap imported fruits preferred over domestic products

VietNamNet Bridge - More Vietnamese are buying imported fruit, which have become surprisingly inexpensive.

Land issue to be thoroughly inspected: Hanoi mayor

 The capital city of Hanoi will conduct a thorough inspection of the management and use of land in My Duc district’s Dong Tam commune, particularly in the Dong Xanh area where a plan to build Mieu Mon Airport is underway.

FPT develops artificial intelligence

 FPT Group is developing an artificial intelligence program as a platform for developing tools that conduct conversations via auditory or textual methods. 

Ancient "tuong" enlivened in Tho Ha village

“Tuong” (classical drama) is considered a “specialty” of Tho Ha village, Van Ha commune, Viet Yen district, northern Bac Giang province.

Farm economy grows fast in Vietnam

 Farm economy grows fast in Vietnam

4th HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition opens

A group of artists, Nguyen Phuong Quyen, Tran Thi Suong and Nguyen Ngoc Giang Thanh won the first prize at the 4th HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition for their art work titled "Alluvial Eyes".

Experts prompt heavy-handed crackdown on motorbikes

 HCM City must make a breakthrough, a revolution to solve severe rampant traffic jam by urgently limiting and proceeding to a ban on motorbikes in some routes to the center of the city.

Vietnam experiences heat wave

 A terrible heat wave starts hitting the northWestern provinces and the provinces from Thanh Hoa to Phu Yen on April 20 with its peak temperature up to 35- 37 degrees Celsius.

Real estate credit in uptrend, VN central bank continues tightening policies

 The State Bank of Vietnam has tightened credit flow into the real estate sector which has been in an uptrend since early this year while HCMC Real Estate Association has warned of a virtual fever in property prices in some districts.

New forest law excludes disadvantaged groups

Disadvantaged groups are not benefiting from the new Law on Forest and Development, experts said at a conference Wednesday in Ha Noi on amendments to the fifth draft of the Law on Forest and Development.

Wastewater pollutes rivers in Nghe An

 VietNamNet Bridge – Garbage and wastewater pollution from factories is threatening the Lam River and its arms in the central province of Nghe An.

ODA policy harming Vietnam: JICA chief

 VietNamNet Bridge – Stringent regulations regarding foreign loans are influencing the disbursement of loans committed by lending organisations to carry out projects in Viet Nam, 

Nearly 860,000 candidates registered for national high school exam

 Registration for the 2017 high school graduation and college entrance exams has drawn to a close after 20 days, with nearly 860,000 students registered, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) announced on April 20.

Petrolimex begins trading on HCMC Stock Exchange

 The Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) began trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) on April 21 with shares, coded PLX, starting at 43,200 VND (1.9 USD).

Vietnam, China hold first fishery patrol in 2017

 The coast guards of Vietnam and China conducted a joint fishery patrol on shared fishing grounds in the Tonkin Gulf from April 18-20, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily reported.