Vietnam’s top three under-16-years-old male tennis players will represent the country in the Asia/Oceania Junior Davis Cup tennis tournament scheduled to be held in New Delhi, India starting on April 2.

The Vietnam women’s team have beat Iran to take the lead after three rounds at the Asian Nations Cup Chess Team Championship.

Economists have urged authorities in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta to create a start-up environment and encourage business incubations to take full advantage of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

In the second quarter of this year Ho Chi Minh City-based companies will need to fill 70,000 job vacancies.

 The localisation rate in Vietnam-the percentage of a product locally made-is too low as the number of Vietnamese part supplying businesses accounted for only 3% of the country’s total, Phan Đang Tuat, former director of the Institute for Industrial Policy and Strategy said.

The system of policies on labour and employment must be reviewed and amended to be more easily-approached and ensure the rights and interests of employers and employees during Vietnam’s integration into international markets.

Vietnam has many strong points to help its tourism industry grow and compete with other countries in the region, said tourism expert Pham Truong Hoang from the National University of Economics

The Vietnamese judo team have left for China for a short training course to secure tickets for the upcoming 2016 Summer Olympics.

Bio-Ethanol Dung Quat, a bio-fuel factory owned by the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), has halted operations due to continuing losses.

Outcomes of the 2015/16 Knowledge Sharing Programme (KSP) launched by the Republic of Korea (RoK) to share experience in socio-economic development with Vietnam were announced at a conference  in Hanoi on March 30.