Retail sales and services revenues in the first four months of this year reached VND1.58 quadrillion ($68bn), an increase of 11.9% compared to the same period last year.

Investors in low-cost housing projects in some southern localities are complaining about big losses due to unfair regulations.

The deployment of the Vietnam Automated System for Seaport Customs Management (VASSCM) will be completed in 2019, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

According to the draft of the revised Labor Code, the retirement age will be raised to 62 for males and 60 for females.

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China overcame South Korea and Japan to become the largest foreign investor in Vietnam in the first four months of the year in terms of newly-registered capital with $1.3 billion.

HCM City’s drama and cải lương (reformed opera) troupes are offering new shows about Vietnamese history during the Reunification Day and Labour Day holidays, which begin on April 27 and end on May 1.

Con Dao National Park is one of the most popular coral reef diving destinations in Viet Nam. With coral cover of about 65 per cent, it has some of the most gorgeous jagged coral reefs in the country.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed to have a new holiday break on the War Invalids and Martyrs Day on July 27.

Vietnam faces challenges in curbing inflation

Despite a global slowdown, Vietnam’s economic growth was impressive in the first quarter of this year.

Farmers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak are facing difficulties due to serious droughts.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a dispatch requesting all public offices and Vietnamese representative agencies overseas to fly flags at half-staff during the national mourning for former President General Le Duc Anh.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s attendance in the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing has affirmed Vietnam’s goodwill and role in international economic integration, said Deputy Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Thanh held talks with his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhao in Beijing on the sideline of the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), which ran from April 25 – 27.

The Khmer-Vietnamese Association in Cambodia on April 27 organised a grand meeting to mark 44th anniversary of the Liberation of South Vietnam and National Reunification (April 30).

Kwang Han, mayor of Namyangju city, the Republic of Korea, was conferred an honorary citizenship of Hue by the city’s authorities at a ceremony held in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on April 27.

More than 700 athletes on April 28 raced the height of the 81-storey skyscraper Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh district, the highest building in Southeast Asia.

Thua Thien-Hue receives 1.8 million EUR from the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety for Carbi project implementation.