Covering hundreds of hectares in Ninh Hoa town, Khanh Hoa province, Hon Khoi is one of the largest salt fields in Vietnam. Visiting the area early in the morning, tourists can admire the stunning sunrise.

 The Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2019 will take place in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from April 26 to May 2.

A concert will be held at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi on April 17 and 18, featuring international award-winning artists. 

 Up to 18% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Vietnam are investing in Cloud computing, which allows them to build mass-scale computing power and minimize information technology (IT) requirements and physical storage.

 Two foreign firms -- one from Germany and the other from Indonesia -- will participate in mapping out a strategy for the development of tourism in HCMC, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported, citing the city's Department of Tourism.

 New regulations on tontine interest rates, registration fee prices of houses and land, and internal auditing shall take force from April, 2019.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the planning on the press by 2025 with an aim to reinforce pubic trust in the society and people’s patriotism. 

An inaugural ceremony for the “Maker Innovation Space” (MIS) in the Can Tho University was held in the Mekong Delta city of the same name on April 5.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on April 5 hailed Belgium’s Wallonia region for choosing Vietnam as the only country in Asia to set up its representative office over the past more than two decades 

 Credit institutions in Vietnam settled more than 204.4 trillion VND (8.77 billion USD) of non-performing loans (NPLs) by the end of the first quarter this year, said Nguyen Thi Hong, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

Ambassador of Armenia to Vietnam Raisa Vardanyan was honoured on April 5 with the “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” insignia of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO).

Sappers of the Military High Command of the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau on April 5 confirmed that they have sent their men to the house of a local to collect a napalm bomb weighing about 75 kg.

 The Finance Ministry said it has devised three scenarios for the domestic consumer price index (CPI) in 2019 based on different levels of increase in world petrol prices.

The domestic sugar industry should restructure all stages of its production process towards diversifying products to improve competitiveness, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

 Vietnam aims to become the first country in Southeast Asia to put 5G into commercial operation in 2020, according to Japanese daily Nikkei.

Farmers in many localities in the Mekong Delta region are turning their paddy fields or other orchards into Thai jackfruit farms due to high profits in recent years.

The first human milk bank has been opened at Tu Du Maternity Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4.

Hanoi has decided to upgrade pavements of 300 streets, using natural stone and other materials.

 There are about 3,000 taxis from other provinces are working illegally in Hanoi, according to Hanoi Taxi Association.

 Despite lower credit growth since early this year, local banks have continued hiking deposit rates but kept lending rates unchanged, according to a news report on Nguoi Lao Dong website.