Vietnam Airlines Corporation reported after-tax profit of VND4.44 trillion (US$173.19 million) in Quarter 1 as it is strengthening its international flights and restructuring.

The State Bank of Vietnam will auction an additional 16,800 taels of SJC-branded gold bars to businesses at 9am on May 3, it said in a statement released on May 2.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s disbursed FDI capital in the past four months rose 7.4% over the previous year’s corresponding period to US$6.28 billion, the highest in the past five years, according to the General Statistics Office.

The national youth chess championship will be held in Bac Giang from May 24 to June 5, with the northern province freshly issuing a plan on the organisation of the event.

VOV.VN - The Australia-Vietnam Young Leaders Dialogue Network hosted a digital technology forum in Melbourne on May 2 to map out orientations for digital cooperation between Vietnam and Australia.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is expected to produce 43 million tonnes of rice this year, of which more than 8 million tonnes will be for export, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

VOV.VN - The government of Japan has decided to present Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun to Hoang Binh Quan, former head of the Party Central Committee’s External Relations Commission.

VOV.VN - A 12-carriage freight train set off on a new route from Cao Xa railway station in northern Hai Duong province on May 2, linking between Vietnam and China.

VOV.VN - Plenty of local residents and tourists have converged on Dien Bien province’s stadium from midnight to see forces put the finishing touches to a rehearsal of a grand military parade ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory on May 7.

The elevation of the stock market to "emerging" status can help Vietnam attract an additional US$10 billion in both direct and indirect investment, KB Vietnam Securities JSC (KBSV) reported, citing the World Bank (WB).