Dozens of musicians will participate in a music programme on March 25 night at HCM City’s Acoustic Bar in memory of 42-year-old rocker Tran Lap, former leader of the rock band Buc Tuong (The Wall), who passed away in Hanoi last week.

An exhibition on “Maps and document display of Paracel and Spratly Islands – Historical and Legal Evidences” will be held in Thai Binh Province from March 30 to April 3.

Credit growth by February 20 rose 0.39% while capital mobilisation increased 0.34% against December last year, a government report released early this week said.

Experts have said it is necessary for the real estate sector to find stable financial sources to ensure adequate housing supply as demand was anticipated to pick up rapidly.

From July 2017, Vietnam would no longer receive preferential loans in the form of official development assistance (ODA), a finance department official said at a conference on March 22. 

Vietnamese athletes will head to the next rounds of the SKYCITY New Zealand Open badminton tournament in Auckland City.

Vietnam has ranked fourth out of 149 countries assessed for how well they convert national wealth into well-being for the population, according to a recent analysis from The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA).

Experts have suggested the central bank should further loosen its monetary policy to reduce lending interest rates in a move to support businesses.

Vietnamese investors are expecting more transactions from State-owned enterprises’ (SOE) equitisation rather than by private/family firm owners, Grant Thornton Vietnam’s latest survey said.

The world’s largest Buddha statue, made of jade, has been brought to Vietnam.