The Ministry of Transport will restructure the transport sector towards reducing the market share of road transport and expanding that of other modes, according to a scheme for transport restructuring in 2016-2020 with a view to 2025.

The HCM City Military High Command will coordinate with the Department of Tourism to prepare for a fireworks display program, which will also include artistic lighting and music shows, on Reunification Day (April 30).

 More than 100 oil-on-canvas pieces and photos of late artist Nguyen Lai will be exhibited at the HCMC Museum of Fine Arts in District 1 from April 5 to 16.

 The Government has decided to forge ahead with the country’s emissions reduction roadmap which requires new autos running on gasoline to meet the Euro 4 emissions standards from January 1 this year as proposed by the Ministry of Transport.

Vietnamese and foreign cakes will be displayed in a cake festival held in Can Tho city,  said director of the Can Tho Trade, Investment Promotion and Exhibition Center Nguyen Khanh Tung.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Top 10 socio-economic indicators in Q1, 2017 at the Government’s regular meeting for March.

 A proposal to increase the number of electric cars to boost Hanoi’s tourism has been rejected by the capital city’s People’s Committee.

 Although Vietnamese apparel company movement toward the stock market is an inevitable trend in a market economy, only 30 businesses of the sector’s total of 6,000 have listed so far.

Nikkei Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index notes continued monthly improvement in manufacturing sector.

  Thousands of people in HCM City's District 10 are risking their life in two old deteriorating apartment buildings that may collapse at any time. 

 AirAsia Bhd., the low-cost carrier headed by Malaysian tycoon Tony Fernandes, plans to start a Vietnamese carrier in a local partnership, as cheap fares and rising incomes fuel a travel surge in the Southeast Asian nation.

 Dozens of traders in Ha Tinh Province are facing huge losses as hundreds of tonnes of jellyfish cannot be sold due to the mass fish deaths caused by the Formosa pollution incident.

 The central bank is gradually introducing a raft of regulations to enforce laws that require local lenders to incorporate environmental and social risk management into their lending criteria.

In front of the headquarter of the Ha Noi Department of Planning and Architecture on Trang Thi Street, dozens of motorbikes and cars stop, wait for a while, look around, hoping against hope that by some miracle a parking space will materialise.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. 

 The project to expand T3 and T4 terminals of Tan Son Nhat International Airport has lured many big investors from all over the country.

 Petrolimex promised that its stock price will not be lower than VND39,000 ($1.7) per share.Besides, it will not divest entirely from its insurance, finance, and banking arms.

 Following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s order to stop the illegal use of injected substances in shrimp exports, authorities in the Mekong Delta have begun several measures to end the practice by the end of next year.

 Despite a drop in total dealflow, 2016 was a vibrant investment year for Vietnamese startups, according to a recent Topica Founder Institute (TFI) report.