VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has asked provincial departments of education and training to build swimming pools in schools to give swimming training to students.

 A dead whale found on a beach in central Thua Thien - Hue yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.

Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hung My Commune, in the southernmost Ca Mau Province’s Cai Nuoc District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.

  Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha has called on all countries to exert highest efforts and ambitions to implement their submitted intended nationally determined contributions to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

 Vietnam’s national futsal team could not surprise Japan in their friendly match in Kariya, Japan on April 22.

 Ho Chi Minh City successfully defended its title at the National Vovinam Clubs Championships which closed in the southern province of An Giang on April 22.

  A several-century-old banyan tree in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been certificated as a Vietnamese Heritage Tree by the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment.

 The national qualifying round of the 2016 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC) in Thai Nguyen province opened on April 24.

About 50 Vietnamese and people from other nations in Switzerland on April 23 protested in Zurich against Chinese violations of Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty and international law in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hosts Hoang Anh Gia Lai tied 10-man Song Lam Nghe An in a goalless match during the V.League’s round seven yesterday in the Central Highlands city of Pleiku.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Head of the Institute for International Defence Relations, Major General Vu Tien Trong participated in the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials Meeting (ADSOM) in Vientiane, Laos on April 23. 

 An honorary consular office of Vietnam officially opened in Monaco on April 21.

National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu has proposed numerous measures to effectively foster the cooperation between Asia and Europe at the 9th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting.

 General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith will pay an official friendly visit to Vietnam from April 25-27.

 Hai Duong province should stick importance to drawing up the list of voters as the locality houses many industrial zones and clusters where multiple workers from other localities are working, said National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly Nguyen Dinh Quyen visited Norway from April 18-22, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two countries’ legislatures.

  A Vietnamese delegation led by Major General Vu TienTrong, Director of the Defence Ministry's Institute for International Relations, attended the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials Meeting Plus in Vientiane, Laos on April 24.

 The 11th fishery patrol between the coast guards of Vietnam and China in shared fishing grounds in the Gulf of Tokin ended successfully on April 23 after nearly a week, according to the Vietnam Maritime Police High Command.

Vietnam and China have agreed to step up their cooperation in less sensitive maritime issues during the eighth round of talks between working groups from the two countries, which was held in Qingdao from April 19-22.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam, an agricultural country which has great advantages to produce natural foods, still has to import products of this kind for domestic consumption.