VOV.VN - Vietnamese stargazers will be treated to a night time display as the Lyrid meteor shower is set to streak across the skies on the evening of April 22 and early morning of April 23.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Investigation Police Agency on April 20 started criminal proceedings against Nguyen Van Tung, Director of Hung Thanh Co. Ltd., for his alleged violations in fire safety regulations, leading to serious consequences in the blaze at the apartment complex Carina Plaza on March 23.

Measures and action plans to sustainably preserve and uphold values of the Trang An Landscape Complex in the northern province of Ninh Binh was the main topic of a workshop held at Bai Dinh pagoda in the locality on April 20. 

 The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced on April 20 that it will rearrange check-in areas for priority passengers. 

The 50th founding anniversary of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces of Vietnam (April 20) was marked at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on April 20.

VOV.VN - An art performance titled ‘Vietnamese youth – the story of peace’ will be held on the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in Ho Chi Minh City on April 21 to mark the 43rd anniversary of Liberation Day (April 30).

Shire Singapore PTE. Ltd. (Shire) will help Vietnam improve the quality of diagnosis, treatment and management of a number of rare diseases in the country for the 2018-2023 period. 

Various cultural activities will be held worldwide to celebrate the Hung Kings Memorial Day which falls on April 25 this year.

Poor households in the Mekong Delta provinces of Ca Mau and Ben Tre will be provided with disaster-resilient houses funded by Tan Dai Hung Plastic JSC.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has made remarkable contributions to rural electrification after 10 years of implementing the Resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areas issued at the seventh plenum of the 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

 Nguyen Duc Lan, 54, a person with a physical disability, is running the Hanvico Humanitarian JSC Company, which produces blankets, pillows, bed sheets and mats for military forces done by many people with disabilities.

The Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) will provide VND1 billion (US$44,000) for the Ao Dai (traditional long dress) festival held under the framework of the Hue Festival 2018, becoming the bronze sponsor for the event.

VOV.VN - A welcome ceremony for Royal Australian Navy frigates HMAS Anzac and Toowoomba and auxiliary oiler HMAS Success was held at Saigon Port in Ho Chi Minh City on April 19.

VOV.VN - On the night of April 19, A huge fire broke out at a warehouse of a wood manufacturing company in Tan Chanh Hiep Street, district 12 in HCM City.  

The southernmost province of Ca Mau will revoke permanently licences of captains and fishing boats that operate illegally in foreign waters. 

A workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 19 to look into international cooperation in seeking ways to improve traffic safety in Vietnam.

France’s core experience and success in developing e-government have been shared with the Vietnamese side during a meeting between officials of the two countries. 

US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Mary Tarnowka has called for actions to improve public awareness of plastic waste as well as measures to reduce and recycle plastic waste. 

Leaders of the central province of Quang Nam and the Lao neighbouring province of Sekong will meet in the second quarter of this year to discuss specific cases of illegal migrants and marriage along the shared border.

The central city of Da Nang and FPT, a Vietnamese software giant, inked on April 19 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on building Da Nang as a ‘smart city’ for the 2018-20 period.

More than 45% of Vietnamese males smoke tobacco, as heard at an anti-smoking conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 19.

Catholics in the southern province of Dong Nai donated more than VND700 billion (US$30.8 million) to charitable activities from 2012 – 2017.

Nearly 400 of job seekers, who had worked in the Republic of Korea (RoK) under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme, took part in a job fair in the northern province of Bac Ninh on April 19. 

The central province of Quang Tri’s People’s Committee, in coordination with relevant agencies, held a memorial service and re-buried nine martyrs’ remains at the Huong Hoa martyr cemetery on April 19.

Twenty-two books with good contents and 13 others with good designs have been honoured with the National Book Awards, the first of its kind in Vietnam, at a ceremony at the National Library in Hanoi on April 19.

The Vietnam Gynaecology and Obstetrics Association and Can Tho Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital held the third conference in the field with nearly 500 leading professors and doctors taking part. 

A France-Vietnam job festival will be held at Pullman hotel in Hanoi on May 5, while a similar event will be organised at Novotel Saigon Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on May 12, according to the organising board.

Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Hau A Lenh met a delegation of overseas Vietnamese from the Thai province of Udon Thani in Hanoi on April 19, committing all possible support to them to integrate into the host country. 

Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong was elected as Chair of the Vietnam – Bulgaria Friendship Association for the 2018-2023 tenure during its fourth National Congress in Hanoi on April 19. 

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has lauded efforts made by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), and the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) to streamline administrative procedures, helping to increase national competitiveness.