Rising production costs are harming the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products, according to experts. These include the prices of feed, material input, electricity and labour.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has urged the fisheries sector to build a brand with food safety and high quality for seafood products.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has no startups with value of $1 billion and higher (called unicorns), but foreign investment funds are optimistic about the future.

HCM City announced on April 1 that its average population growth rate during 2009-2019 is 2.15 percent per annum, which means the city has an addition of 170,000 people each year.

 A relatively intact bronze drum, believed to belong to the Dong Son civilization, was recently discovered in Bao Thang district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

 The sound political relations between Vietnam and France will pave the way for the bilateral cooperation in other fields.

 Ho Chi Minh City recorded 3,316 scarlet fever cases suspected of infecting measles in the first three months of 2019, according to the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre. 

 Five Vietnamese artists will open a group exhibition titled “Neo-Expressionism” at VICAS Center for Assistance and Development of Contemporary Arts (VICAS Art Studio) in Hanoi on April 3.

Some households in Thach Xa Commune have earned their living by making bamboo dragonflies for more than 20 years. 

 Local credit institutions had settled more than VND204.4 trillion (US$8.8 billion) worth of bad debts as of January, accounting for 40.1% of the total, said Nguyen Thi Hong, deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

 Nghiem Thanh Son, deputy head of the Payment Department at the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), told a press conference on April 1 that rumors of the licensing of virtual currency exchanges were unfounded, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported.

 Viet Nam will take part in the King’s Cup 2019 in Thailand in June.

VietNamNet Bridge - More Japanese-invested factories have opened in industrial zones as well as shopping malls in large cities and provinces in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The southernmost province of Ca Mau is expanding the farming area of acacia trees which offer high income for farmers. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the north-western province of Dien Bien have seized 110,000 methamphetamine pills in a transnational operation over the last two days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Former national champion Pham Minh Tuan of Hung Thinh – HCM City won his first match in the men’s singles at the VTF Pro Tour in Binh Dinh Province yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Asian Athletics Federation has invited 16 Vietnamese athletes to compete at the Asian Grand Prix Series 2019 in Chongqing, China from June 4-7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese women’s football team have a golden opportunity to advance to the next round of Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification in Uzbekistan this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of drugstores may have to suspend operations if they do not connect with the national drug supply chain management system this month.

Documents and images related to the life of President Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionary activities in France are on display at an exhibition in the French capital Paris.