More than 2,300 runners will compete in the Dalat Ultra Trail 2018 to be held in Lac Duong District in the Central Highliands province of Lam Dong on March 16-18.

 Tang Nguyet Minh will become the first Vietnamese woman to take part in the 2018 North Pole Marathon to be run on April 9.

Vietnamese top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam entered the final of men’s doubles category of the India F2 Futures tennis tournament in Kolkata yesterday.

 The Viet Nam national U16 team came from behind to defeat Laos 2-1 in the international friendly tournament ASEAN 2018 held in Miyazaki, Japan, yesterday.

 The HCM City health sector is focused on increasing the number of doctors and hospital beds per 10,000 population to 18 and 42 this year, a health official said, from last year’s figure of 17 doctors and 40 beds.

 The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a proposal by the Department of Transport to increase the fees for automobiles parked on roadsides and pavements.

The Ministry of Education and Training is expecting the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to continue their technical and financial support for Vietnamese higher educational projects.

Collaboration across industry, academia and government is needed to both retrain the existing workforce and better prepare the next generation of graduates from secondary schools and universities to achieve optimal success with the Industry 4.0.

 The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee has ordered the Government Inspectorate to speed up the inspection over the purchase of 95 percent of shares at the AVG Audiovisual JSC by the MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation.

 A total of 271 players from 21 countries and territories have registered to participate in the annual HDBank International Open Chess Tournament, slated for March 10 – 15 in Hanoi.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, addressed world leaders at the Club de Madrid roundtable held recently in San Francisco, the USA.

VietNamNet Bridge - The conclusion by the Academy of Social Sciences about an allegedly plagiarized doctoral dissertation that it contained only ‘unprofessional quoting’ has stirred controversy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh, in co-ordination with Hai Duong Province, arrested a man for rape, after nearly 20 years on the run. 

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has requested the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to review the preliminary result of anti-dumping duty administrative review on shrimp products imported from Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Demand for industrial robots coupled with the skills of Vietnamese technology firms are expected to help drive the robotics industry in the country.

 Vietnamese websites were hit by a total of 1,504 cyber-attacks in the first two months of 2018 in the forms of Deface, Malware and Phishing, according to the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT).

 In recent years, many Vietnam industries such as textile and leather manufacturing and electrical components export face challenges and opportunities in the industry 4.0 era. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A restaurant in the tourist city of Da Lat, which assaulted two of its customers, has been suspended from operation, the city’s Market Management Board said on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of chickenpox cases in the south has been on the rise, with many newborn babies getting infected, doctors said.

 The Hanoi People’s Procuracy on March 7 proposed 12-60 month imprisonment sentences to nine defendants in the Da River water pipeline’s 18 successive ruptures.