Last August, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued Decision No.986/QD-TTg on the Development Strategy of the Banking Sector.

 The 4.25 Club from the DPRK won the championship title of the International Women’s Volleyball Tournament – LienVietPostBank Cup 2019 after defeating LienVietPostBank team of Vietnam 3-0 (25-16, 25-14 and 25-15) in the final match on March 1.

 The 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games will have more sports than in the past, according to the Viet Nam Sports Administration.

Juventus Academy Việt Nam’s director Đinh Hồng Vinh has been named national team head coach Park Hang-seo’s assistant coach. 

 Vietnamese cueist Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện has booked a ticket to the quarter-finals of the Carom Billiard three-Cushion - Survival 3C Masters tournament in Incheon, South Korea.

 Sin Suối Hồ Market in Lai Châu is 35km from Lai Châu City. The market takes place once a week on Saturday, where locals not only exchange goods, meet one another, but also relax, and have fun. 

 Overseas Vietnamese singers have returned to perform in their homeland after Tết (Lunar New Year), mostly in live shows on large stages in HCM City and Hà Nội.

 Sàn Art, a non-profit fine arts organisation in HCM City, has launched a residency camp for visual artists living in Việt Nam and other Southeast Asian countries. 

 A Vietnamese woman described by police as the ringleader of a people smuggling operation has been jailed for eight years in the United Kingdom.

 The HCM City’s People’s Committee has approved a proposal to build a new apartment building to replace building E located at 518 Võ Văn Kiệt Street in District 1.

 Farmers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Gia Lai are waiting for buyers for Japanese sweet potatoes harvested from hundreds of hectares, danviet.vn reported.

 Like Hà Nội, HCM City too plans to ban motorcycles from inner districts by 2030.

 New graduate Trần Thị Khánh Ly from Đà Nẵng-based Đông Á college was recruited by Japanese Route Inn – a hospitality group – to work in hotel chains in Japan last year.

 It’s around 7.30am in the dining hall of the International Media Centre during the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit. Many domestic and foreign reporters are standing in a long queue in front of a booth serving phở (noodle soup), waiting their turn to be served.

 The Government Inspectorate has announced its conclusion on petitions involved in the land acquisition of Đồng Đăng Market in Lạng Sơn for construction and the moving of traders into a shopping centre without asking their opinions.

 The central city of Đà Nẵng planned to ban over 30-seat buses from the downtown area during rush hour to reduce alarming congestion in the first quarter of 2019.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Patient care at Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital in central Quang Nam Province has improved greatly.

 Resorts on the outskirts of cities like Hanoi or in nearby areas that are easy to reach are increasingly finding favor among those keen to get away for a brief sojourn.

 After 30 years of licensing FDI projects Viet Nam has 26,500 of them now. This represents remarkable success for Viet Nam’s open-door and integration processes.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cau and Ngu Huyen Khe Rivers are dying slowly amid hot economic development and the strong rise of Industrial Zones and craft villages.

DPRK leader Kim Jong-un boarded a train back to Pyongyang from Dong Dang station in Lang Son on March 2 afternoon, concluding his five-day stay in Vietnam for the second DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit and the official friendship visit to VN.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau has developed models that apply advanced farming techniques and increase co-operation among stakeholders in production and consumption.

Vietnam is expected to see a surge in FDI, thanks to various factors such as free trade agreements, the trade war between China and the United States on Vietnam, and stronger interest in merger and acquisition transactions.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment is gathering feedback from private stakeholders on the draft law amending and supplementing the Law on Investment and the Law on Enterprises. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – When it comes to the An Kim Hai drainage channel, Pham Huu has seen just about all there is to see.