VietNamNet Bridge – Last year, H, a HCM City resident, transferred a total of VND10 billion (US$437,800) to a man she’d met on a social media website.

Vietnam’s cold chain market is expected to expand considerably in the next few years, offering investors ample business opportunities in the field. 

 The benchmark VN-Index has ended its winning run of nine consecutive weeks under heavy profit-taking selling pressures. The market is forecast to remain volatile due to ongoing portfolio restructuring of exchange-traded funds.

Tourists to the northern province of Ha Giang are greatly impressed by its imposing natural landscapes with stunning mountain ranges and terraced rice fields.

Over 3,000 girls wearing Ao Dai attended a parade on March 5 at Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street, HCMC, to form the S-shaped map of Vietnam within the framework of the ongoing Ao Dai Festival.

 Japan has helped conserve the tangible and intangible values of the Complex of Hue Monuments – a world heritage site in Hue, the imperial capital of Vietnam during the Nguyen Dynasty.

 The Central Highlands region has become an increasingly attractive destination for investment which has fueled economic growth and improved people’s livelihoods.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina visited Mendoza province from March 3-5, aiming to tighten investment and trade links.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam was among the 16 foreign delegations attending a ceremony and a parade to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Belarus’s police force in Minsk on March 3 and 4.

 A high-level Euro-Asia regional meeting on improving cooperation on transit, trade facilitation and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development will be held in Ha Noi from March 7-9.

 A painting exhibition of 9 artists from Hanoi opened at Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum on March 3.

 A concert introducing Italian songs will take place at HCMC Conservatory of Music on March 19.

 Over 1,000 people in the country come down with Paraquat - a weedkiller - annually.

 According to the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center, a cold air mass is expected to sweep through the northern and central region in next couple of days.

Simmered fish in Vietnam can be found into two types. Wet simmering usually uses sea fish, its taste is quite light and it is often cooked with a lot of water that can be used to add flavor to steamed rice or bun.

Artwork by eight contemporary artists from Vietnam and South Korea are on display at an exhibition, which opened in Hanoi on March 3 under the theme Undefined Boundaries.

 Contrary to the original plan, the State-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) expects to list its shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) around April 10-12, Chairman Mr. Bui Ngoc Bao told Reuters.

 In a proposal submitted to the Da Nang Department of Information and Communications, the local Traffic Safety Committee wrote that the unauthorized operations of Uber and Grab could worsen traffic in the city.  

 A music night featuring jazz manouche, also known as Gypsy jazz, will be held on March 11, at 8pm, at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi.

 Japanese enterprises in banking and finance are now the biggest foreign shareholders in Vietnamese banks, financial and financial leasing companies, and their Vietnamese partners highly regard their expertise and support.

 More and more affordable international fashion brands enter Vietnam, heating up competition and bringing more choices for Vietnamese customers.

 Artists and local children painted a boatLocal authorities in Quang Nam Province's Tam Thanh Commune are cooperating with artists from Singapore in an ecotourism project which aims to introduce local life and culture to visitors.

 The first State visit to Vietnam by Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko is a historical hallmark and a meaningful symbol of the two nations’ friendship, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in an interview with Japanese national newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

 After the failure in box office of various home-made films, domestic filmmakers are looking for new gems from scriptwriters in other countries including South Korea and Thailand.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will inspect adherence to inorganic fertiliser production regulations at production and processing enterprises.