The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) raised VND300 billion (US$14.2 million) through government guaranteed bonds auctioned in Hanoi on April 22.
A conference was held on April 22 for 33 northern and northern central provinces being hit by measles to publicise the ministry’s updated guidelines on measles treatment issued on April 18.
Family members of 29-year-old Vietnamese Phan Ngoc Thanh, who was on board the capsized vessel off the Republic of Korea’s southwestern coast on April 16, have arrived in the RoK to wait for new information about her fate.
Uruguay’s guitar duo Umbral staged a special performance in Hanoi on April 21.
A floating school, the first of this kind in Vietnam, with one classroom and modern equipment, has been put into operation in the Mekong Delta Vinh Long province.
The movie Song Cung Lich Su (Living with History) was released in Hanoi last weekend.
There were US$2.183 billion, worth of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of March, accounting for 4.85 percent of the city's total loans.
A Khmer-Vietnam friendship primary school was inaugurated in Svay Rieng province in southeast Cambodia on April 21.
Ageing population is requiring the health system to renew in terms of services provision and healthcare finance.
As many as 40 Japanese businesses operating in seafood industry, farming, trade, and also financial services attended a seminar on investment environment and cooperation potential in agriculture between Japan and the Mekong Delta region in Can Tho city on April 21.