Hao claims national tennis title; Ha Nam held by Thai Nguyen; Students to compete in badminton comp; Coal and Mineral beat Tao Dan

 Cam Ranh Port Company Limited will auction over six million shares in its initial public offering (IPO) on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange on March 16, according to its website.

  Viet Nam has won a contract to supply 300,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice to the Philippines this year.

 Authorities have told Long Binh Primary School to stop providing canteen lunches for students until doubts about contaminated food are cleared up.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has put an end to the debate about the primary education reform by refusing to amend Circular No 30, parents are still protesting against it.

 Travel on the north-south railway line was interrupted for almost 20 hours on March 11 after a train hit a lorry in central Quang Tri province on March 10 evening.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many seaports in Vietnam are being compared with the world’s “dumping grounds” where thousands of containers of imported wasted materials have piled up.

VietNamNet Bridge – Investors once paid thousands of dollars for each square meter of land in so-called golden land areas in Hanoi, but the plots remain empty and unused.

 Hungary is keen to cooperate with Ho Chi Minh City to build a specialised tumour research centre in the city in the coming time.

 The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak held its traditional elephant race in Lak district on March 11 as part of the fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Nhu Giap in Thanh Tri District in Hanoi, who owns an ornamental bird farm, has successfully bred blue-eye cockatoos after buying four eggs for VND4 million.

 Sarah Brightman has been working with her former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on a song she can perform in space.

 The Vietnam Maritime Administration and the Seamen’s Employment Centre of Japan (SECOJ) signed an agreement on training maritime lecturers in Hanoi on March 11.

Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Do Ba Ty welcomed Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Treetod Sonjance in Hanoi on March 10.

 Myanmar continually looks to foster cooperation with Vietnam, especially within the ASEAN framework, affirmed Myanmar leaders.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised the traditional friendship and cooperation between Slovakia and Vietnam during his meeting with the Justice Minister of the Slovak Republic Tomas Borec on March 11.

 Vietnam highly encourages Japanese investment inflow into agro-forestry-fisheries, President Truong Tan Sang told Governor of Japanese prefecture Wakayama, Yoshinobu Nisaka, during a reception in Hanoi on March 11.

 National precious objects announced; Exhibition portrays happiness road in Ha Giang; Anh wins silver in no-gold contest; 'French Village' to open soon to tourists in Danang; British book spotlights millennium-old Cham towers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors may wholly own securities and fund management companies in Vietnam from this year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Inspired by Mark Twain's call to "sail away from safe harbour", a young Vietnamese entrepreneur quit his day job, opened a cafe and began an adventure travel business.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has decided that the transfer of operation rights of a number of airports and highways would be implemented this year but the plan has proven to be unfeasible.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Industry insiders are doubtful whether the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) issuing special bonds will help reduce the overall bad debt ratio to below 3 per cent in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To welcome the lunar New Year, goat fighting festivals were held in early March in the northern mountainous provinces of Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang.

Vietnam to issue international driving licences in August; Large bomb defused in Quang Binh; Police seize 2,000 smuggled smartphones, tablets; Transport Ministry announces establishment of electronic tolls

 PVN to invest $2.3 mil in oil dump, port in Phu Quoc; Work starts on $187.8 mil urban area in Ha Long; Environmental tax on petrol to jump 300%; Samsung tops 500 fastest growing firms; 24,000 firms pay taxes electronically