The Vietnam men’s national team climbed two places to 130th position in the latest men’s world rankings released by FIFA on March 12. 

 Star Wars producers have announced the name of the new stand-alone film, to be directed by Brit Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones.

 Fishermen in central Thua Thien - Hue yesterday have released an individual of green sea turtle, which is listed as an endangered species by International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN), to the ocean.

 Italian photographer and architect Gianpaolo Arena has completed a photo album titled “My Vietnam” featuring daily life of local residents in the country during one-month stay in Vietnam.

 Germany's second-largest bank, Commerzbank, has agreed to pay a total of $1.45bn (£980m) to US authorities for violating economic sanctions against businesses in Iran and Sudan.

 From March 11 to 25, Vietnamese and World Bank (WB) experts will host a discussion on higher education and innovation – driving force for Vietnam’s development toward 2035.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the World Bank (WB) on March 12 signed agreements for a total of US$450 million in loans and credits to help Chi Minh City improve environment and sanitation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "The world’s tallest TV tower is the dream of Vietnam Television," said VTV General Director Tran Binh Minh at the signing ceremony of the TV tower construction investment agreement in Hanoi on Tuesday.

 The Vietnam Department of Survey and Mapping and the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding on March 11 in Hanoi to commit to collaborative efforts.

A new indigenous flora species has been found in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park of central Quang Binh province, according to a statement from the park’s management board on March 12.

 Vietnamese teams have won three gold, four silver and three bronze medals at five international sporting events organised in early March this year, according to the National Sport Administration.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 11th annual HCM City Tourism Day Festival to be held this month will seek to promote World Heritage sites in Viet Nam beginning on March 26.

 Vietnam’s Under-16 tennis team have earned a ticket to the Asia/Oceania final qualifying round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Junior Tennis.

 The culture ministry is focusing on removing foreign-style objects from relic sites across the country, said Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Dang Thi Bich Lien at a press conference on March 12.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications handed over 180 documents and maps on the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos to the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) and the Vietnam Youth Federation on March 11.

About 4 million coffee seedlings will be provided to Central Highlands farmers to replace aging trees in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ms. Trinh Thi Lanh, 60, on Wednesday in Hai An district in the northern coastal city of Hai Phong, discovered a giant jicama (pachyrhizus) weighing 15,2kg, 80 cm high, and 50 cm wide in her vegetable garden.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Fashion Week Autumn&Winter 2015 opened last night (March 12) at Viet Nam Television's Studio 14 featuring six local designers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huong Ga (Rise), a movie based on the life of a female gang leader, won the three top prizes at the annual 2014 Golden Kite awards last night.

VietNamNet Bridge – A female student at a secondary school in Tra Vinh province was seriously beaten by nine classmates in January 2015, but the school only recently learned about the case, after a video clip was uploaded on the internet.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hue Central Hospital in Thua Thien Hue Province saved the life of a three-month-old girl suffering from a rare heart condition, after she was hospitalised on February 14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All obstructions caused by the train-truck collision on the north-south railway line in the central Quang Tri Province have been removed, clearing the line for rail traffic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An earthquake struck the Bac Tra My Commune near the Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant in the central Quang Nam Province today, the local authorities said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Hanoian got shocked after he was told that he can receive the sum of money big enough to buy three kilos of pork after 20 years of depositing money at bank.

 Nearly 1,000 travellers aboard the Celebrity Century cruise ship participated in a royal banquet in Hue Citadel’s Can Chanh Palace in the Dai Noi (Royal Palace) on March 12.