Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- The elevated section of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, the second of its kind in Hanoi, embarked on a test run on Monday before its commercial operations set in July, the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB), the investor of the project, said on Tuesday. The trial run will last until April 26.

-- Border guards in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam on Tuesday took home 15 Vietnamese forced laborers, aged between 18 and 30, from Cambodia.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has proposed the municipal People’s Committee build a hospital for traumatology with 1,000 beds in the outlying district of Binh Chanh to replace the current Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopedics in District 5. The existing hospital is facing overcrowding and has deteriorated.

-- The Da Nang City People’s Committee has imposed an administrative fine of VND170 million ($6,930) on a general clinic in Cam Le District for its environmental protection violations.

-- Suoi Voi (Elephant Stream) tourist area project in Phu Loc District under Thua Thien-Hue Province, located in central Vietnam, has been put on hold after getting approval for construction in 2017 with a total investment of VND1.02 trillion (US$41.6 million).

Business

-- Vietnamese officials have been organizing multiple local and international investment promotion programs to call on Japanese and South Korean firms to tap the Vietnamese securities sector.

-- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will begin its non-stop services from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Munich, one of the largest cities in Germany, from October this year, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Vietnam exported $970 million worth of vegetables and fruits between January and February, surging over 70 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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