Nearly 11,000 ha of natural forest which was allocated to local people in the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak has suffered serious deforestation, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 The Project Management Unit of Railway of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project admitted that it violated regulations pertaining to labour and occupational safety standards during construction.

 Hundreds of containers have been stuck at the Thanh Thuy International Border Gate during the past week due to China’s slow customs work.

VietNamNet Bridge - The bad debt ratio of the banking system has decreased, but the bad debt value has begun to increase again.

This year’s historic drought and saltwater intrusion have been mostly caused by the extreme El Nino weather phenomenon. If the 11 hydropower dams in Mekong upriver become operational, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will bear a ‘double disaster’.

VietNamNet Bridge - A high percentage of students have decided to take the geography test for the 2016 high school finals, while history is the choice of very few students.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thai investors are increasingly investing in Viet Nam’s plastic industry, with many of them keen to fully acquire the Government’s stakes in companies it plans to equitise.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Con ball throwing is a popular folk game many the ethnic Thai ethnic minority people in Vietnam’s northwestern region. While playing the games, Thai girls and boys have a chance to find their partners and express their love.

 Nghe An Police arrest marijuana smuggler, Quang Ninh to ban limestone transport, Police asked to probe traffic accident, Party chief makes fact-finding tour of Long An province, Customers suffer from many fuel taxes and fees

VietNamNet Bridge - Many businesses have been reported as holding trillions of dong in cash. The wealth has allowed them to take the initiative in developing businesses and expanding production.

  Two-way trade between Vietnam and China is expected to amount to US$100 billion this year, one year earlier than planned, according to economic and commercial counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam Hu Suo Jin.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi authorities have sped up the construction of waste treatment projects as well as preparing to put new plants into operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Literature Publishing House yesterday (March 15) introduced overseas Vietnamese writer Mai Lam’s three-book collection titled Tu Xa Ha Noi (Ha Noi From Afar).

  Musician/DJ/producer Gudrun Gut from Berlin, Germany will have a concert at The Observatory in HCMC’s District 4 on Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Television and radio stations in the country are no longer allowed to partner to produce news and political programmes, according to a new governmental regulation that took effect yesterday, March 15.

Thai businesses have been focusing on investment in processing and manufacturing industries in Vietnam, data issued by the planning and investment ministry's Foreign Investment Agency showed.

 Vietnam has banned the import of soil into the country, said the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD).

  A Facebook user in the northern Thai Nguyen Province has been fined VNĐ12.5 million (US$560) for posting a fake story about children being kidnapped for their internal organs.

 The Hanoi Department of Education and Training will withdraw the regulation stipulating that pupils can be suspended from school for repeated traffic offences.

 Japan took the lead in the team rankings of the Binh Duong International Women's Cycling Tournament – Biwase Cup 2016, which concluded on March 16.

 On March 15, representatives of Vietnamese expatriates living across Europe sent the European Parliament (EP) an open letter expressing their concerns over Chinese unilateral moves that have provoked escalating tension in the East Sea.

 President Truong Tan Sang’s freshly concluded tour of Tanzania, Mozambique and Iran is expected to create a new impulse to step up economic and trade ties between Vietnam and these countries, said Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Hong Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Major General Doan Duy Khuong, Assistant to the Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang, has been appointed the Director of the Hanoi Police Agency, replacing Major General Nguyen Duc Chung, who is now Hanoi’s chairman.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thai businessmen have been pouring money into profitable Vietnamese businesses and strong brands, not just to seek short-term profits.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the first two months of 2016, Vietnam obtained trade surplus of $680 million and had five export products with turnover exceeding one billion US dollars.