Hoang Duc Minh, director of the Teachers and Educational Managers Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), talks to Vietnamnet e-newspaper about staff for the new school year and their salary policy.

About 3,000 tonnes of waste, which is supposed to be buried at Co Do District’s dumping sites in Can Tho City, will be burned to produce energy on a trial basis, according to local authorities.

Residents living around Hanoi’s largest dumping ground of Nam Son in Soc Son District started receiving land compensation from Tuesday, the Vietnam News Agency has reported.

Professor Dr Dang Huy Huynh, Chairman of the Viet Nam Zoological Society, talks to Tuổi Trẻ newspaper about failures to protect rare animals in Vietnam.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) organised a ceremony in Hanoi on March 28 to launch a project to develop the national investment information system (NIIS).

 Two Vietnamese representatives, Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Anh Khoi, have won their first two matches of the ongoing 2019 Sharjah Masters international chess tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

 A new method of blended learning, which combines classroom and online learning, helps Vietnamese students access standard high school education programmes in the US and Canada. 

 Vietnam has set a target to earn US$3.83 billion from fruit exports in 2019, a year-on-year increase of only 0.8%, as China, Vietnam’s largest fruit importer, has tightened its control over the informal export of fruits to its market.

The Ministry of Public Security is investigating a loss-making oil and gas project worth more than US$1.8 billion of the State-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) in Venezuela.

 Vietnam looks to enhance the values of its agricultural products in order to ensure sustainable exports via official channels amid the process of international integration.

Clothing made by workers of Binh Minh Garment JSC in HCM City.  

 Experts anticipated the Vietnamese finance and banking sector will experience a sharp increase in merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in 2019 as positive signals for the surge have been seen right in the first months of the year.

 Up to 70 percent of Japanese businesses have announced that they want to expand operations in Vietnam, especially in manufacturing, trade and service, and retail sector, according to the Japanese External Trade Organisation (JETRO).

Vietnamese consumers continued to show confidence in the final quarter of 2018, placing their country in the fourth position on the global consumer confidence benchmark.

 Despite likely hurdles, export of marine products is expected to rise by 17 per cent to US$3.5 billion this year, according to the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep).

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) was the only Vietnamese bank chosen to offer money exchange service at the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam’s International Media Centre.

 Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has submitted a pre-feasibility study report for a North-South high speed railway project to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Import – Export Department has recently warned of the increase in trade fraud through labeling products as “Made-in-Vietnam”. 

 Billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong has become the first Vietnamese to be named among the top 200 richest people worldwide.