The 7th International Women's Cycling Tournament (Biwase Cup 2017) kicked off in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 8. 

 Vietnam will accelerate the development of logistics services to facilitate trade and improve the economy’s competitiveness, according to an action plan which was approved recently by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong explained several new regulations regarding agriculture during a working session in Hanoi on March 8 with Senior Vice President of the US-ASEAN Business Council Michael Michalak. 

 The management and sharing of data on forests in Vietnam was the main topic of a workshop co-organised in HCM City on March 8 by the General Department of Forestry under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Finnish Embassy.

 Households in the capital’s Old Quarters can enjoy preferential tax rates if they offer motorbike parking services in their premises, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has said.

 Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Thanh has led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the three-day Global Cities Summit 2017 that opened in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on March 7.

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 Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has requested the establishment of four inspection teams to examine the compensation for residents who were affected by the marine environment incident in the central region. 

 The annual Vietnam-China deputy foreign ministers’ meeting took place in Nha Trang city in the central province of Khanh Hoa between March 5 and 8, discussing bilateral ties and border issues.

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Do Ba Ty has praised the contribution of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarian Group to the two countries’ strategic partnership in general and the two parliaments’ collaboration in particular.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese retail market, though still small, is attracting the world’s giant retailers, including those from Japan.

Vietnamese fashionistas are excited about the news that H&M may open its first shop in Hanoi soon. They will no longer have to buy H&M and other foreign high-street brands from online shops or from those who carry goods across border gates.

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 Investors are betting market regulators will approve what would be the first U.S. exchange-traded fund to track the price of bitcoin.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three students from Thua Thien – Hue province have invented a system which generates electricity from sea waves.

VietNamNet Bridge – Signs of growth stagnation in the Mekong Delta in recent years have been blamed on climate change, which has contributed to drought and saline intrusion.

Many bachelor’s degree graduates don’t have basic skills to undertake their works if they don’t receive retraining. Many of them cannot even fill out applications for jobs or compile official dispatches in an acceptable manner.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Barbara Trebitsch, former head of Domus Academy in Milan, a leading school in design, fashion and architecture, is currently Italy’s ambassador of design.

On February 24, 2017, the Vietnamese government released the new transfer pricing Decree No. 20/2017/ND-CP, which will take effect from May 1, 2017. 

 An International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Restoration, and Management gathered international scientists in central Binh Dinh province to discuss environmental issues as well as share research results and management experience.

 President Tran Dai Quang hosted separate receptions for newly-accredited ambassadors to Vietnam in Hanoi on March 8, during which he called for the diplomats’ greater efforts to broaden bilateral wide-ranging cooperation.

 Members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) sold more than 17,600 cars in February, down 13 per cent from the previous month.

 PENM IV Germany GmbH & Co KG is seeking to purchase another 5.5 million shares of Hoa Phat Group (HPG) in an attempt to raise its stakes in the company’s profit-making potential.

 Opportunity Network, a UK-based FinTech company that offers banks a digital business matchmaking platform, on Wednesday announced plans to engage Vietnamese commercial banks in joining its fast-growing global partner network.

 Viet Nam has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the Asia Pacific region at some 25 per cent, much higher than the world average of 10 per cent.