Vietnamese dancers present classical ballet; Ha Long Carnival to take place on April 30; International Francophonie Day celebrations announced; First career reality show launched; Lao Cai cave listed as national relic

 Hanoi to auction land-use rights for new development projects; Credit payments edge up in cash-only society; VN firm builds floating unit to serve oil field; Vietnam wants to sign TPP soon; Vietnam, US trade sets new record

 Five persons are critical after mushroom poisoning; Bid to smuggle spurious fragrances into HCM City intercepted; Dog fighting rings sprout up in Vietnam; Purple heron released into Tram Chim national park

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport has blacklisted nine "incompetent" contractors who will face a range of punitive measures depending on their violations.

 Vietnam, China increase border defence cooperation; Melba Hernandez - great Cuban friend of Vietnam passes away; Vietnam helps Mozambique develop food crops; Government, trade union work to protect workers’ rights

 Chess GM Liem draws first blood at HDBank Open; HCM City hosts traditional martial arts tourney; VTV Binh Dien to face Lien Viet Postbank; Loan wins fourth stage at women's cycling open

 American filmmaking couple Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey will be in Viet Nam from March 11 to 20 to present their historical TV documentary Lives Worth Living.

 Young Vietnamese badminton player Pham Cao Cuong has secured 5th place in the latest World Badminton Federation (WBF) rankings for junior players.

 Coach Guillaume Graechen’s players delivered another impressive performance in the second friendly in the UK during their European tour, drawing their hosts U19 Wimbledon 2-2 on March 10.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 16 of the 28 lakes at southern Dong Nai Province's Bien Hoa Airbase have been found to have dangerously high concentrations of dioxin.

VietNamNet Bridge – More people and organisations, including overseas Vietnamese and foreigners, will be eligible to buy and own houses in Viet Nam.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Formula manufacturers and distributors have laughed scornfully at the statement by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to set ceiling for the formula selling prices, believing that this is unfeasible.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government and National Assembly will issue 28 new laws to concretise and implement the 2013 Constitution's stipulations on human rights and citizen rights, Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong said last Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the morning of the 7th day of the lunar year, the Tich Dien Festival or the King’s Plowing Festival is held in Doi Son commune, Duy Tien district, Ha Nam province, to mark a new year for farming.

 Dame Judi Dench and Jude Law are among the acting nominees in the running for this year's Olivier Awards.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi ranked second and HCM City ranked sixth in the top 10 cities with the cheapest hotel room rates on hotels.com.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of the Children's Hospital 1 in HCM City have performed a surgery to take a big bun of hair from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl from the southern province of Long An.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Hoang Van Phuc – chief coach of the national football team met the Vietnam Football Federation’s General Secretary Ngo Le Bang on March 9 to inform his decision to withdraw from the hot seat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In Van Noi commune, the biggest vegetable growing area of Hanoi, farmers spray the vegetable fields with toxic chemical pesticides, while selling away the biological pesticides subsidized by the State.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the education sector, Vietnam is considered a poor spendthrift. It has spent much money on renovating the education curriculums, but has not got the desired effects.

A lot of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) still keep their operation in Vietnam even though their operation duration stipulated in the investment licenses had finished, and they have not made re-registration for continuous operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's variety of traditional dances will sink into oblivion if they are not well-preserved, the chairman of the Ha Noi Dancers' Association believes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rice yields for the 2013-14 crop in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have reached the highest level in a decade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's oldest mobile network operator, MobiFone, will recall nearly 200,000 SIM cards that were issued and allocated to dealers, but were  not activated for the past two years.

The UN Human Rights Council UPR working group on February 7 approved Viet Nam’s UPR Report in the second cycle at its 18th session in Geneva, Switzerland.