Nguyễn Thị Ngoan and Nguyễn Thị Hồng Anh represent Việt Nam at the Karate 1 - Premier League Rotterdam 2018 on March 16-18 in the Netherlands.

 Despite dropping one spot in the world rankings, Viet Nam are still the Southeast Asia’s top football team.

 Football for All in VN (FFAV) has been selected as one of 27 organisations to be part of the first Common Goal collaboration cycle.

 The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has approved a plan to build an ecological park of more than 15,000sq.m in Hoàng Mai District’s Vĩnh Hưng Ward.

 Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries have reached an agreement on the implementation of a cross-border transport facilitation agreement (CBTA).

 Thousands of households in central Quang Nam Province have been thirsting for clean water for years as most of the wells are seriously contaminated with aluminum and few water supply works have been built to solve the problem.

 All districts will be expected to develop a “smart urban area” plan by 2020, Tran Vinh Tuyen, HCM City People’s Committee vice chairman and head of the smart city management board, said on Friday.

It’s been around 50 years since former US Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle documented the tragic My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968.

 Pham Khanh Phong Lan, head of the HCM City Food Safety Management Board, speaks to Liberated Sai Gon about the positive results of the board’s work.

 Some 118,290ha of rice fields affected by lack of water and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta will be used to grow other crops or aquaculture this year, according to the Plant Cultivation Department.  

 Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov gave positive comments on the strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam during an interview recently granted to Vietnam News Agency. 

 The US National Basketball Association (NBA)’s global basketball development programme for boys and girls (Jr NBA) has returned to Vietnam for the fifth consecutive year.

 Vietnam’s first patient undergoing a lung transplant with the organ donated by a brain-dead person is now in stable health 16 days after the operation, doctors said.

 Around 2,300 domestic and foreign runners took part in the second Dalat Ultra Trail International Marathon which officially opened in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong on March 16.

 Teachers are increasingly under attack across Viet Nam, requiring administrative and financial solutions from policymakers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities are finding it difficult to prevent owners of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) from fleeing the country, leaving unpaid salaries and debts. 

Do Ngoc Diep, specialist at the Green Building Project of the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, looks at Vietnam’s chances of realising its dream of becoming “a green spot” in the region.

Lam Dong Province’s most famous tourism destination by far is Da Lat City, known the world over since its days as a French colonial summer resort. But located 110km to the south of Da Lat is the town of Bao Loc,

For nearly 30 years, researchers at the Faculty of Tissue, Embryo and Genetics under Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University have been making use of amniotic membrane, which is commonly treated as medical waste and discarded. 

Former Politburo member and former Prime Minister Phan Van Khai passed away at 1:30 on March 17 at Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City, aged 85, according to the Board of health care services for senior officials.