On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, villagers hold a wrestling festival in front of the Nghe communal house in Mai Dong village (now in Mai Dong Ward, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi) from the fourth to the seventh day of the first lunar month.

 Vietnamese people spent up to a total USD15 million to import beef from Australia and the US in the first two months of this year, according to the General Department of Customs.

 Ho Chi Minh City again leads the country in e-commerce, according to the Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM)’s Vietnam E-commerce Index 2018, released at the Vietnam Online Business Forum 2018 on March 14 in Hanoi.

 Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco) will have to pay nearly VND2.5 trillion ($109.8 million) in tax arrears, according to newswire Vnexpress.

 According to the HCM City People’s Committee, travel demand at Tan Son Nhat International Airport will reach an estimated 83 million passengers by 2025, much higher than forecasted by the consultant ADPi from France.

 The heavy toll taken by coal-fired power plants has prompted many pro-environmental international organisations to oppose banks in several nations that plan to provide loans for these plants in Vietnam.

 The lawyer of the six customers from whom an officer of Eximbank stole VND48 billion ($2.1 million) ask for repayment in full before the case goes on trial in April.

 Grab expressed concerns over Vietnam's plan to treat it like a taxi company, not a tech company.

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 Petrolimex and PV Oil - Vietnam's two largest petrol distributors, disagree with Saigon Petro Co., Ltd.'s proposal to return to selling RON A92 petrol after reporting low bio-fuel E5 sales.

 Despite rumors that Amazon will enter Vietnam as a competitor of China’s Alibaba, the representative of the US e-commerce giant expressed no such intention when he attended Vietnam Online Business Forum today in Hanoi.  

 Japanese golfer Tomoyoshi Makoto triumphed Best Gross prize at the FLC Faros Golf Tournament 2018, which concluded in northeastern Quang Ninh province on March 11.

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 Hanoi New Music Ensemble will play a free concert of their ‘Night Rain’ program at The Goethe-Institut Hanoi at 8pm on March 17, featuring contemporary pieces from Vietnam and around the world.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc paid a three-day visit to New Zealand from March 12-14 at the invitation of his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern.

 International Local Development Consortium (ILDC) from France intends to develop a $6-billion deep seaport complex in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam.

 Five Vietnamese universities have been listed in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings, an annually issued rating which provides an insight into the region's 400 leading institutions.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam’s real estate sector has continued rising, showing positive signs for the sector.

 Building unlicensed constructions in protected areas and maintaining and upgrading heritage sites without permits are becoming more common as punishments are still too lax.

 An anniversary to commemorate 64 Vietnamese soldiers who died defending Gac Ma (Johnson South Reef ) was held in the central city of Da Nang on March 13.