Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands will pay an official visit to Vietnam on April 9. 

Nguyen Phuong Thao, 19, one of 10 Vietnamese outstanding young faces of 2018, is a student at the advanced training program in the Biotechnology Faculty at the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences. 

 Authorities of the northen mountainous province of Lang Son have expelled several Chinese who were illegally in the country.

 The Vietnamese government is looking for investment capital in the energy industry, especially in renewables, in a move to meet the country’s rapidly rising power demands, officials said.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with Chairman of the European Parliament (EP)’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) Bernd Lange in Brussels, Belgium on April 3 (local time) as part of her working visit to the EP. 

Tra fish breeds producers in the Mekong Delta have been urged to closely work with research institutes, universities and scientists to apply advanced farming techniques to produce high quality breeds.

 The first edition of the Vietnam industrial real estate forum will be held in Hanoi on April 23 by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the Vietnam Real Estate Association (VNREA), and Thuong Gia (Merchant) Magazine.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tran Trong Kien, CEO of Thien Minh Group, believes the aviation market is still large enough for new air carriers. 

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is accelerating the building of a master plan for the Mekong Delta’s sustainable development in adaption to climate change to 2030 with a vision to 2050. 

 Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Industry and Trade has reported to the municipal administration that it is appraising tenders from contractors to develop logistics facilities and turn the city into a logistics hub for Southern Vietnam.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) to support its scheme to develop a smart city.

VietNamNet Bridge - Management over solid waste treatment is being undertaken by many state agencies.

 The ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting, under the theme “Sustainable security”, officially opened in Phetchaburi province, Thailand, on April 3.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently issued a plan for the implementation of an MoU on anti-human trafficking cooperation signed between VN and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in late 2018.

 Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City were estimated to reach 1.2 billion USD in the first quarter of this year, said Nguyen Hoang Minh, Deputy Director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s branch in the southern largest economic hub.

 Vietnam suffered 620 cyber attacks in the first three months of this year, down by about 50 percent compared with last year’s figure, according to the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Rising production costs are harming the competitiveness of Vietnamese seafood products, according to experts. These include the prices of feed, material input, electricity and labour.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met President of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium Siegfried Bracke in the capital city of Brussels on April 3 after arriving there. 

With growth in the global economy and world trade projected to slow, ADB forecasts that Vietnam’s economic growth will moderate but remain strong at 6.8% this year and 6.7% in 2020, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

 Besides M&A deals in the real estate sector, Vingroup also acquired potential companies in retail, pharmaceuticals, technology, and automobile production.