The Cau Ngu festival, an annual festival where fisherman pray for a good haul of fish from their catch, took place in Khanh Hoa between March 16 to 18.

 In its list of the best paying jobs released yesterday, VietnamWorks found that employees in the financing-investing- banking field make the most money, followed by employees in the IT field, marketing and construction.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday pointed out that illicit sales of ornamental piglet amid outbreaks of African Swine Flu would risk the country’s pig-breeding industry.

 Hundreds of renewable power projects proposed by private or state-owned enterprises are getting stuck in further steps as they have yet to be added to the power development plan.

 The Dalat Victory Challenge mountain bike tournament wrapped up on March 17, with two Vietnamese winning the longest-distance races for men and women, 70km.

 Residential property players remained active while offices continued to be one of the most exciting segments across the region, real estate consultant Savills Vietnam noted.

 Two mountain tunnels would be built along the North-South Expressway through the central province of Nghe An, according to the provincial Department of Transport.

 The Tay Ho Urban Development and Investment JSC has asked for permission to build an underground parking lot in Ha Noi’s Cau Giay Park.

 As many as 124 children from the northern province of Bắc Ninh tested positive for pork tapeworms, or Taenia solium, according to two institutes that conducted tests yesterday.

 The High-Level People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on March 18 upheld imprisonment penalties given to five defendants for “attempting to overthrow the people’s administration”.

 The central city of Da Nang has worked to launch a number of activities to respond to the Earth Hour 2019, which is slated for March 30.

 Five more people were prosecuted on March 17 and 18 for suspected violations of regulations on the management and use of public capital causing losses and wastefulness and violations of regulations on land management.

 The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the Chinese Embassy co-organised a seminar on Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) and related regional collaboration opportunities in Hanoi on March 18.

 Six matches of Group K within the framework of the 2020 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship, which are hosted by Vietnam, will be broadcast live nationwide, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) announced on March 18.

 Prolonged heat waves without rains have left 58,000 hectares of special-use and protective forests in the southern province of Tay Ninh at high risk of catching fires.

 A Vietnam-Japan Friendship Concert, themed ‘Spring of Music and Friendship’, will take place at the L’Espace Centre in Hanoi on March 20.

For effective, low-cost pollution treatment solutions at the household and industrial levels, Dr Nguyen Thi Ha and her co-workers from the environment faculty of the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences have been granted the Kovalevskaia Award.

 Over 100,000 people participated in activities at the Ao dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) festival, the sixth of its kind, which concluded in Ho Chi Minh City on March 17.

 Vietnam is expected to be more attractive to foreign investors thanks to the increase of localization rate for parts production in the country, especially in the manufacturing industry.

 Malaysia’s head of lawyers council has raised a question why Vietnamese citizen Doan Thi Huong was not freed in the murder case after the attorney general dropped charges against co-suspect Indonesian Siti Aisyah.