The Saigon Hi-Tech Park Incubation Centre (SHTP-IC) put into operation an Innovation Lab on April 8 in order to promote research, creativity and start-ups in business incubation projects.

 A project on developing a network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) in Vietnam was introduced in Hanoi on April 8.

 The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) detained 23 Vietnamese fishermen on April 8 on the charge of illegally fishing in the waters off Terengganu and Pahang states.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met Japanese Ambassador Fukada Hiroshi – the first guest of the new government, during a reception in Hanoi on April 9.

 The Vietnamese Government will continue to tighten cooperation with the World Bank, especially in coping with climate change and saltwater intrusion, improving public administration and investment climate, and fighting corruption.

 National Assembly deputies have expressed hope that the new government will build on the past successes and issue timely policies for socio-economic development.

 Vietnam joined nearly 150 delegations from foreign countries, international organisations and non-government organisations attending the United Nations (UN)’s Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism in Geneva, Switzerland on April 7-8.

VietNamNet Bridge - Four giant conglomerates from Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines have been expanding their investments in Vietnam, raising both joys and concerns.

 Powerful athletes will race in the VNG Ironman 70.3 Vietnam in the coastal central city on May 8.

 Thousands of endangered Asian openbill storks, which are listed as especially rare in Vietnam’s Red Book, are migrating to the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, according to local sources.

 Vietnamese photographers have won top prizes at the 2nd International Salon of Photography Donegal 2016 in Ireland.

 While people are more worried about the flood of unsafe food, they often continue to indulge in unhygienic habits when it comes to street food, ignoring various latent health risks.

 The southern province of Tay Ninh is organizing its first festival for banh trang phoi suong (a type of rice paper exposed to morning dew), a specialty of Trang Bang Town in the province, Tuoi Tre newspaper reports.

 Amateur kayakers will compete in the Da Nang Kayak Open Race in the sea along coastline of My Khe beach on April 30, 2016.

 Vietnam finished the Asian Nation Cup chess tournament with team silver and bronze medals in the blitz chess event on April 7 in the United Arab Emirates.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Cultivation’s plan to expand the acreage of the 2016 autumn-winter rice crop, or the third rice crop, in the Mekong Delta to offset the losses in the winter-spring crop could lead drought and salinity

  VTV Binh Dien Long An Volleyball Club said its player Tran Thi Thanh Thyy has received a four-year scholarship worth US$160,000 from Oregon State University in the US.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Prime Minister sent a document asking the Ministry of Education and training to review all textbooks ensuring that all pictures of the country maps must have Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagoes.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news that Hanel sold Daewoo Hotel soon after it acquired the hotel four years ago has disappointed investors, but the hotel remains attractive thanks to the large land fund it holds.

 Vietnam saw a reduction in its trade deficit with China in the first quarter of 2016, raising expectations of an ongoing decline in this deficit for the whole year.