ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) releases 2017 Annual Consultation Report on Vietnam on April 6.

 Hanoi capital city has focused on building standard shopping and culinary establishments serving tourists in order to well control the quality of goods and services as well as food safety and environmental hygiene.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will urge the US to promptly conduct a field study of Vietnam’s tra fish market, said an official.

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 Vietnam is planning to build a new higher speed rail route connecting the capital city of Hanoi to the northern border with China to boost two-way trade.

 Energy labels will be made compulsory for newly-assembled and unused imported automobiles or motorbikes under a draft Circular outlined by the Transport Ministry’s Vietnam Register. 

 Cueists of the Republic of Korea shone in the three-cushion carom category at the Asian Carom Billiards Championship 2018 held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8, bringing home the top four prizes.

 Dong Thap province, already the largest tra fish producer in the Mekong Delta, has further increased the breeding area this year because of the high prices the fish is fetching.

 Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the long-term local-currency bank deposits ratings and local- and foreign-currency issuer ratings of three banks of Vietnam from B2 to B1.

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) will auction off its 6.67 million shares of the Orient Commercial Bank (OCB).

 Three Bang lang nuoc  (water crape myrtle) trees in Bang Lang temple, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have been recognised as heritage trees by the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE).

 Deputy Foreign Minister and head of Vietnam ASEAN SOM Nguyen Quoc Dung and Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Preeti Saran co-chaired the 20th ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Hanoi on April 5-6. 

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has requested the Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corporation (Sabeco) to hold an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to review personnel matters.

 A smart healthcare system that exploits Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) has been set up by the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of health examinations and medical treatment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has sent a document to leaders of provinces and cities requesting them to secure order and security in schools. 

L'Espace in Hanoi has opened a new branch on the campus of the Hanoi University of Architecture in Ha Dong district, as part of activities to celebrate the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and France.

 Military forces in the northern provinces of Quang Ninh and Hoa Binh safely defused several war-left bombs on April 6.

 A ceremony was held in Ngu Loc commune, Hau Loc district, Thanh Hoa province, on April 6 to kick off the Whale worshipping festival and receive a certificate recognising it a national intangible cultural heritage.

 VietNamNet Bridge – High-tech treatments have become an efficient coworker for doctors in diagnosis and treatment in Vietnam, Tran Vinh Hung, the director of Binh Dan Hospital, 

The Fansipan Mountaint in Sa Pa district of the northern province of Lao Cai is covered with ice on Aprile 7 after a cold wave is affecting the northern and central provinces from April 6.