The number of female labourers working abroad has risen but there is no specific policy to facilitate their stay and work abroad, a workshop held in Hanoi on April 3 indicated.

Hanoi market gardeners established another 500 hectares of safe vegetables in the first quarter of this year.

The first Chervo Open golf tournament will tee off on April 19 at Ha Noi's Sky Lake Resort & Golf Club.

German Industry and Commerce Vietnam (GIC) is funding an exchange programme in two German cities between Vietnamese and German stakeholders and decision makers on vocational training.

The French group Thylacine will present an electro music concert at Cargo Bar in HCM City on April 8, iLL Beats Saigon and the French Institute in HCM City have announced.

Worried about a significant drop in agricultural exports, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has decided to establish a steering committee that will gather information on problems faced by traders and identify possible solutions.

Vietnam's Ly Hoang Nam continued with his winning streak at the Indonesia F1 Futures tennis tournament, easy defeating host player Anthony Susanto 6-3, 6-1 on April 1 in Tarakan City.

A beautiful cave system with magnificent stalactites has been discovered on the Dong Van karst plateau near Lung Khuy village commune in the northernmost province of Ha Giang.

A music gala put together by formers students of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, the first of its kind, will be held at Viet House in Berlin on April 4.

Russian pianist Ilya Rashkobskiy will perform with the Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra (VNSO) under the baton of Grammy-award winning David Alan Miller on April 3-4.