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  The Prime Minister has agreed to the recommendation of the Ministry of Transport and Kien Giang province on appointing a contractor to build the Phu Quoc International Passenger Port. 

 The seventh annual ploughing festival to bring a year of favourable weather and a bumper crop season took place on February 25 at Doi Son commune, Duy Tien district in the Red River Delta province of Ha Nam.

 Reigning V-League champions Becamex Binh Duong ended up falling short of a home-turf win despite scoring twice against Chinese FA Cup winners, Shandong Luneang Taishan in Tuesday’s AFC Champions League Group E opener.

VietNamNet Bridge - McDonald's marked its one-year operation in Vietnam by opening its fourth restaurant in early February, as it struggles to compete in the US.

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) has created many jobs and stimulated competitiveness for local businesses over recent years, many citizens have raised concerns that its benefits have not been evenly distributed nationwide.

 The Dutch Sim card maker at the centre of NSA-GCHQ hacking claims has said it believes that the US and UK cyberspy agencies did indeed launch attacks on its computer systems.

Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security for the US State Department, will travel to Vietnam as part of her visit to four Asian-Pacific countries from February 27-March 9.

 South Korea's Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen (SEVT) Co Ltd recently sent a document to the departments of labour, invalids and social affairs of cities and provinces.

 Pop star Madonna has fallen off the stage during her performance at the 2015 Brit Awards.

 The Viet Nam Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) will soon announce its plan to merge with the Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PG Bank).

Land Sai Gon's 12-member cycling team will begin its seven-day and 1,000km-long journey from HCM City to Bangkok, Thailand on March 6.  

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bich La communal house market, which is at least 100 years old, might be one of the oldest once-a-year markets in Vietnam. It has special traditional characteristics of local people in Bich La village in Quang Tri Province.

American film Boyhood, which has been nominated The Academy Awards or The Oscars, will make its debut in Vietnam on March 6.

 The FBI has arrested three foreign nationals living in Brooklyn who agents say sought to join the Islamic State.

 Vietnam was listed among top ten countries having trade surplus with the US last year with a total value of more than US$24.9 billion.

 The Southern Institute for Water Resources Planning has implemented a master plan to build three irrigation systems in response to climate change in Can Tho, Ca Mau and Vinh Long – the three most severely inundated cities in the Mekong Delta.

 The Vietnamese Olympic, or under-23 (U23), football team’s head coach Toshiya Miura set his sights on securing a seat in the finals of the second Asian Football Confederation (AFC)’s U23 Football Championship 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Singer Giang Trang is holding her concert entitled Ha Huyen 2 (Dark Moon 2) at Ha Noi's French Institute next Saturday, following her successful Ha Huyen concert in 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making glass from beach sand? Forget it! Students from Hue University of Science are using a new technique to make liquid glass from rice husks and ash.

Vietnam is examining Chinese fruit imports as mandated by the Department of Plant Protection (DPP), triggered by the announcement that Chinese fruits shipped to Australia are allegedly contaminated with the hepatitis A virus (HAV).

 The Prime Minister has approved the establishment of a council steering the compilation of a Vietnam encyclopedia.

 Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Vu Duc Dam has approved the Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV)’s proposal on launching an all-day English language channel .

Vietnamese migrant workers will be allowed to register at Thailand’s labour centres for one-year work permit licenses with comprehensive benefits, the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand said in an announcement on February 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A government decree today announced an eight per cent increase in wages for government officials, public servants and members of the armed forces with a salary coefficient lower than 2.34.