Nguyen Tien Minh qualified for the second round at the ongoing German Open badminton tournament.

 Vietnam's Olympic qualification hopes took a blow after a 9-0 loss to Australia in a qualification tournament in Japan yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese artists based in Germany are showcasing the harmony between the two cultures through an exhibition titled Migration and Identity.

 More than 833,000 foreign visitors entered Viet Nam in February, a 3.5 per cent increase from the previous month and 20 per cent surge year-on-year.

 One in three, or 35 per cent of pregnant women, are victims of domestic violence, mostly at the hands of husbands, according to doctors at Ha Noi Medical University (HMU).

Local NGO DRD (Disability Resource and Development) and Hoa Sen University have launched a smart phone application that provides disabled people with locations of disabled-friendly community venues.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese businessmen are well known in the country not only because they have trillions of dong worth of assets, but also because they are brothers as well as billionaires.

 The illegal parking of coaches on streets in HCM City in order to collect and drop off passengers has been a headache for local authorities, but coach operators insist measures should be taken to create more favourable conditions for them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Non-state universities are concerned that they will not find students once the new enrollment policy is applied. It allows schools to apply many different methods to enroll students, and has no floor mark for junior colleges.

VietNamNet Bridge - The machine uses acetylene and plasma to cut metals via computer numerical control (CNC). This is a product created by a creative business owner in Tien Giang Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat on Monday asked Viet Nam Administration of Forestry to suspend construction by Le Mont Bavi Resort and Spa in Ba Vi National Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local administration discovered illegal logging in another area of the protected Nature Reserve on Son Tra peninsula Monday. Two other locations were found destroyed in the same area last week. 

 Vietnam is set to become the biggest beneficiaries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal out of the four Southeast Asian participants, the other three being Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, according to the UK Financial Times.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tuy Loan Village in Danang City organized a communal house festival as one of the biggest spring festive events of Danang and as a traditional activity in the spiritual life of local residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A scientific seminar, entitled Sac Menh Chi Bao (Wooden Seal Found in an Archaeological Excavation at Thang Long Royal Citadel in 2012-14), was held late last month.

 Hospitals face more competition as city funding falls, Vietnam and international partners to coordinate in combatting diseases, Drawing contest reflects Vietnamese satires on gender equality, World Bank to facilitate traffic flow in Hanoi

Vietnam’s textile and garment industry has attracted the majority of the biggest foreign direct investment projects as investors want to build factories in Vietnam to capitalize on opportunities from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

VietNamNet Bridge – Many environmentally friendly products such as biodegradable packages and non-baked bricks have been in the market for years, but the enterprises that produce these products are having a hard time developing them.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Since early February the ASEAN Deep Value Fund has been acquiring more shares of Hong Ha Viet Nam Joint Stock Company (PHH) and Thanh Nam Investment and Construction Joint Stock Company (CSC).

 Vietnam's most famous pianist, People’s Artist Dang Thai Son will come back home to give concerts at Hanoi Opera House on March 9-10.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Green space has shrunk in HCM City because of urban development, but the city lacks the resources to develop concentrated green areas.

For the first time, as a result of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments, European investors will be able to offer tenders for various public infrastructure projects in Vietnam.

 President Truong Tan Sang presented the Friendship Order to President of the Supreme Court of Russia Mikhailovich Lebedev in Hanoi on March 2 in honour of his dedication to ties between Vietnamese and Russian court sectors.

 The world’s longest three-rope cable car connecting Muong Hoa Valley and Fansipan Mountain in the northern province of Lao Cai has helped some 40,000 tourists conquer the so-called “Roof of Indochina” in one month of operation.

 Only 23 percent of the 977,684 Vietnamese language domain names registered are in active use, the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) announced on March 1.