The full list of winners for the 86th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles on 2 March.

National Futsal Championship opens in HCM City; Lao students join provincial sports festival; Hung out of V-League with broken leg; Ha Noi 1 leads in women's football championship

 Top Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has shined in the US as she won three gold and a silver medals at the Florida Swimming Spring Senior Championship 2014, which took place from February 27 to March 3 in Orlando, Florida.

 UK Prince presents helmets to children; Over 1,800 traffic fatalities in first two months; Low-quality bolts brought bridge down: minister; Vietnam ranks fifth in doing extra studies; Vietnamese concerned about Ukraine violence

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Van Phuc has opened up the possibility of resigning as chief coach of the national football squad after the squad’s upcoming Asian Cup qualifying match against Hong Kong (China).

 VietNamNet Bridge – After a 13-hour surgery, doctors of the Hanoi-based Vietnam – Germany Hospital successfully re-joined the cut-off nose of a 37-year-old man from central Vietnam.

 Some assessments about Vietnam in the US Department of State’s 2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are based on inaccurate information and do not reflect the real situation in Vietnam,

 UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pratibha Mehta has highly valued Vietnam’s achievements in protecting and ensuring human rights over the past years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Union of Friendship Organizations awarded the For Peace and Friendship among Nations insignia to Japanese Consul General Hida Harumitsu for his contributions to strengthening Vietnam-Japan ties. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam drew 0-0 with a Republic of Korean (RoK) students team in a friendly match on March 2 in Hanoi. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam ranks first among the countries accepting Lao students, followed by China, Thailand, Japan and Australia. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned US business magazine Forbes has announced the list of the year’s top 50 businesswomen in Asia, including three Vietnamese.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) may consider setting up the floor prices for pay-TV services in an effort to ensure the healthy competition in the market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Singapore, host of the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, have dropped women's football from the competition, which is scheduled for June next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Strong evidence has, for the first time, been discovered suggesting that Vietnamese tombs in the central province of Thanh Hoa date from the early to late period of the Da But civilisation (6,500 – 4,700 BC).

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Department of Transport has decided to raise the rate of city taxis installed with global positioning system devices to 100 percent by 2015 in a bid to more strictly manage taxi enterprises operating in the capital.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean soprano Sung Hee Park and flute soloist Hyun Ju Ro will entertain Saigonese with Voices of Spring at 8 p.m. on March 9 at HCMC Opera House.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The revised Land Law will come into force on July 1. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly, spoke of the changes made to the existing law.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has committed to tougher laws and enforcement against the illegal trade in wild animals at a conference in London.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese workers in South Korea will not have their deposits of VND100 million returned if they overstay visas to work illegally there.

 VietNamNet Bridge – State officials cannot have new cars this year under a new directive just issued by the Ministry of Finance, which states only special-use automobiles like ambulances and trucks can be bought under a public procurement program.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HSBC Bank in a report released on Tuesday expressed concerns over the low consumer price index (CPI) in Vietnam this month, suggesting that economic activity continues to be dragged down by weak consumer confidence.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of registered motorcycles across the country continues to increase rapidly, amounting to over 39 million units now and exceeding the number targeted for 2020 by three million vehicles approved last February.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two world-known footballers - Ruud van Nistelrooy (the Netherlands) and Robert Pires (France) – will tour Vietnam in April to showcase the Trophy Cup of UEFA Champions League 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Toyota Vietnam complains that it loses thousands of dollars worth of profits from the imported two luxurious models Lexus RX 350 and ES 350 because of the unreasonable mechanism on taxable price determination.