The sixth season of the Football for Friendship (F4F) international children’s social project has opened in Viet Nam, announced Gazprom, an official partner of FIFA and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

 The Hanoi People’s Court on April 5 opened the trial of six defendants accused of “trying to overthrow the people’s administration” under Clause 1, Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code.

 Singaporean-based Asian Scientist Magazine has named two Vietnamese – Professor Phan Thanh Son Nam and Associate Professor Nguyen Sum – in its recently published list of 100 leading scientists in Asia.

 The northern province of Ninh Binh will host various events this year to mark the 1,050th anniversary of the establishment of Dai Co Viet, the first feudal state of Vietnam.

 Two out of 13 Vietnamese victims of the apartment fire in Ratchathewi district, Bangkok, Thailand, had been discharged from hospital as of April 4 morning. 

 The Asian Carom Billiards Championship 2018 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4, gathering leading cueists from Japan, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the Prime Ministerial Retreat at the third Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on April 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Exploding dynamite when fishing is being blamed for the mass of dead fish that washed ashore in the central province of Quang Tri.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Dak Lak officials have been reprimanded for hiring too many public school teachers.

 As of April 4, only 179 out of 718 multi-storey apartment buildings in Hanoi had fire insurance, according to the Hanoi Fire Prevention and Control Police Department.

 Vietnam has earned over 2.8 billion USD from exporting shoes since the beginning of 2018, thus maintaining the second position in the world in terms of shoes export.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met bilaterally with his Lao and Cambodian counterparts on April 4 on the sidelines of the third Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia. 

 The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) rose 3.25 points to close at 1,191.54 points on April 4.

 Vietnam won the second match at the Davis Cup Asia-Pacific Zone, Group III, in Hanoi on April 4.

 Vietnamese Minister of Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu signed a roadmap for bilateral military cooperation during 2018-2020 on April 4.

More Vietnamese in urban areas plan to buy cars this year after the tax rate of complete built-up units imported from ASEAN countries fell to zero percent from January 1.

The latest revision of the draft law for special administrative and economic zones absorbed feedback and made changes to several items including planning and organisation of the special zone’s government, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fight against corruption was a rare highlight of the Government’s efforts to improve public administration, as citizens in more than half of the country believed corruption was better controlled in 2017,

 Ancient houses of Hoa ethnic people in B​ang V​an and Th​uong An communes, Ng​an Son district, Bac Kan province have stood for half a century and became a destination in the northeastern mountainous province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City People’s Committee has set a new price for management services for apartment buildings.