Spanish conductor David Gomez Ramirez will conduct Vietnam National Opera and Ballet to perform opera extracts and contemporary dance at Hanoi Opera House on April 11-12.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will restage the classical ballet Cinderella by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev at the city’s Opera House on April 7 and 8.

 The Vietnam Youth Theatre will perform a series of plays in Hanoi between April 5 - 10 to mark the 40th anniversary of its establishment. The opening performance of the five day extravaganza will be the play Who is the Culprit.  

 After a four year hiatus, the Vietnam Caricature Contest is open for applications again.

VietNamNet Bridge - Uber, Grab and Easy Taxi spent big money to fight for market share in Vietnam. But after five years, two of them have left the playing field.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Head coach Hoang Anh Tuan has selected 24 players for the Vietnam U19 team to compete in the Suwon JS Cup 2018 in South Korea.

Vietnam’s total revenue from retail trade and services rose 10 per cent year-on-year to exceed VND1 quadrillion (US$46.57 billion) in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The capital city of Hanoi will focus on wastewater treatment systems in all industrial parks by 2020 as part of its efforts to enhance environmental protection.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed a 50 percent personal income tax (PIT) reduction on income from salaries and wages of hi-tech workers in an effort to help ease enterprises’ staff shortage. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese believe that eating wild animal meat on the first days of the lunar year will bring good luck. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Thi Minh Chau, a math teacher at Long Thoi High School in HCMC, did not say one word while teaching students in the last four months. 

Communities of the Co Tu ethnic group living in the city and Quang Nam Province will host the traditional Co Tu Cultural Day in Gian Bi Village in the city’s Hoa Bac Commune on April 13-14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fishing season has started in the central province of Quang Tri, but many ships remain ashore due to a lack of willing seamen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Tan, a farmer in Kien Giang Province’s An Bien District, is making the best of a bad situation.  

For students at Nguyen Ba Ngoc Primary School in Central Highland province of Dak Lak’s Krong Pac District where 90 per cent of students are ethnic, Êđê language lessons are always the ones they love most.

Crafting wooden fish, a wooden percussion instrument in temples, has become an integral part of a small village in Thuy Xuan ward, Hue city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Almost 90 per cent of local markets in Hanoi don’t meet fire safety standards.

 The recent visits to France and Cuba by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong created new momentum to promote cooperation in science and technology.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) has begun carrying out a national business census in 2018 to take stock of the real situation in corporate development.

 Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich’s upcoming attendance of the 7th Moscow Conference on International Security in Russia on April 4-5 aims to affirm Vietnam’s responsibility towards global and regional matters, a Vietnamese officer has said.