The Ministry of Transport is planning the construction of a railway route which will go through China’s Hekou County.

 A young man in the central city of Da Nang and his cousin have joined the global Challenge for Change movement to collect litter at Son Tra Peninsular.

 Nearly 52,000 foreign workers from over 8,700 units have joined social insurance in Vietnam after just three months of compulsory social insurance collection for this group of labourers.

 Police in the border town of Mong Cai in Quang Ninh Province announced Thursday that they have arrested two local people for human trafficking. 

 Authorities in Bac Ninh Province are investigating the alleged use of meat from sick pigs at a local nursery school.

 Tiny lanes are a common feature of Hanoi's Old Quarter.

 The real estate market in Mui Ne in Phan Thiet City in the south-central province Binh Thuan has been buzzing in recent times with many tourism property and transport projects being developed.

 The city of Da Nang has issued a document requesting the management and supervision of real estate brokerages and land transactions be enhanced to prevent unusual price hikes caused by the spread of false information.

VN Rivers Network is launching a campaign to search for untouched rivers all over the country to call on policy makers, investors of development projects and the community to protect rivers.

 Marella Vania Salama of the Philippines’s Eleven Corratec team won the penultimate stage of the Bình Dương International Women’s Cycling Tournament – Biwase Cup 2019 on Friday.

 Siblings Nguyễn Thị Thanh Phúc and Nguyễn Thành Ngưng will be representing Việt Nam at the 2019 Asian Championships 20km Walk in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday.

 Xuân Sơn National Park in Phú Thọ Province’s Tân Sơn District is developing community tourism services to attract more tourists.

 The fifth annual French culinary festival Goût de France on March 21 will feature 51 restaurants from Vietnam.

 The People’s Committee of HCM City has approved three firework shows to celebrate the 44th Reunification Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1), national holidays in Vietnam.

 Khmer people in the southern province of Kien Giang have kept the traditional handicraft of weaving cỏ bàng (a kind of sedge) to make rattan artworks for centuries.

 Approving the pre-feasibility study of the undersea tunnel project through Cua Luc Bay in Quang Ninh province will take the project a step closer to construction.

 More foreigners are buying apartments and investing in real estate in Vietnam, especially in HCM City, with most of them coming from mainland China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.

 Suppliers are looking for opportunities in the growing horticulture and floriculture sector in Vietnam.

 Nguyen Bich Lam, director general of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam talks to VNA about the upcoming national population and housing census on April 1st.

 Disputes between investors and buyers in apartment building complexes have escalated in recent years as the number of buildings in HCM City has increased, according to the city’s Department of Construction.

 From 5am to 7am every day a 70-year-old man whose nickname is Năm plays badminton with other seniors in a small yard near Tân Phú District’s Nguyễn Sơn Street.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) have reported losses, though they continue to enjoy attractive investment incentives. Economists say this is ‘abnormal’.

 The Ministry of Health has issued specific guidelines on intervention to manage synthetic drugs abusers amid an increase in drug use in the country.

 HCM City authorities are strengthening control over the trade of oil and petroleum products to ensure safety at petrol stations and gas shops that sell flammable substances.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam attained a trade surplus in three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018. However, the trade deficit has returned in the first two months of this year.