VietNamNet Bridge – A record some 300 people will participate in the annual Tien Phong Newspaper Marathon being held in Ninh Binh Province on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The PetroVietnam (PVN) Group has decided to revoke two awards each from the Vietnam Petroleum Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) and its former chairman Trinh Xuan Thanh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang needs to invest in its tap water supply system, especially in remote areas, to effectively limit the rampant and rapid exploitation of underground water, 

 Viet Nam has officially halted meat imports from 21 Brazilian companies, which are being investigated for allegedly bribing state officials to facilitate the sale and export of sub-standard meat products.

 Rescue forces salvaged a truck from Nhat Canal in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap’s Thanh My Commune on Thursday afternoon.

 Forty-nine contracts were signed during the two-day regional conference on food security in Hanoi, which ended Thursday, the Netherlands’ deputy minister of agriculture Marjolijn Sonnema said.

 More flash floods and landslides are forecast to hit Vietnam in 2017 than last year, especially in mountainous areas in the northwest region, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Hanoi wishes to liaison with Singapore in urban planning and management, greening, smart-city construction and personnel training, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said.

Warning about the wave of millionaire emigration, economists say that millionaires are taking foreign currencies abroad, creating problems for Vietnam to control the foreign currency outflow.

 According to Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Association, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has filed geographical indication (GI) to Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand in 17 nations and territories worldwide and so far 12 have agreed to protect the brand name.

 The HCMC Department of Transport yesterday said that it had assigned the Urban Traffic Management Zone no.1 to be investor of a 22 hectare walking street zone in downtown HCMC.

 The National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center yesterday announced that a cold air mass is forecast to hit the northern and central region of Vietnam in next couple of days.

 Nineteen Golden Kite Award-nominated films will be screened for free at five cinemas in Ho Chi Minh City from April 3-7.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will require commercial banks support high-tech agriculture enterprises, under a direction from Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

 Located in the Truong Son Mountain Range, Minh Long white waterfalls in the central province of Quang Ngai impress visitors, especially young people with its stunning beauty.

 Prospects are bright for Vietnam’s footwear exports after the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement comes into force in 2018.

 The question of how to raise assorted investment sources in Vietnam for national economic development has dominated the agenda of many economic forums. 

 Foreign shipping lines will have to publicise charges, surcharges of freight services for containerised goods, and port service charges from July 1, 2017.

 A new cold spell is expected to come to the northern region of Vietnam from tomorrow, March 25, with temperatures in high mountainous areas to drop as low as below 11 degrees Celsius.

 500 people have been evacuated and 1,200 workers will be affected after a large fire burnt down a Taiwanese garment factory in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho Thursday, according to local authorities.

Traffic accidents have killed around 2,100 people and injured 3,800 others in Vietnam in the first three months this year, according to a report of the National Committee for Traffic Safety. 

 The National Electronic Authentication Centre (NEAC) under the Ministry of Information and Communications recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Korea Information Certificate Authority Incorporated (KICA).

 Investment and individual consumption will fuel Vietnam’s economic growth in the year, according to Pham Hong Hai, Chief Executive Officer for Vietnam at HSBC Holdings.

  Chinese tourists entering Vietnam via Mong Cai international border gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh at weekends is estimated to number 10,000 per day, doubling the normal days.

Experts in the country have opposed a proposal to set up a stage for Miss Grand International (MGI) inside a cave located in Quang Binh province’s heritage site.