Up to 33 percent of Vietnamese buyers are open to considering an electric vehicle (EV) as their next car, demonstrating the country’s strong potential to speed up the electrification of automobiles.

 Many provinces and cities across Vietnam, on February 25, simultaneously held the annual New Year tree planting festival, initiated by the late President Ho Chi Minh in 1960.

 Defending V.League 1 champions, Quang Nam, defeated winners of the Vietnamese National Football Cup, Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA), 1-0 to lift the trophy of the National Super Cup which took place in Hanoi's Hang Day Stadium on February 24.

 Analysts expect the real estate market, especially the residential land segment, to continue to grow solidly this year thanks to huge infrastructure works in many places around Vietnam accompanied by a raft of property developments.

 A group of ships of the US navy will visit the central city of Da Nang from March 5 to 9 at the permission of the Vietnamese government. 

 The Ministry of Public Security’s investigation police has issued an international wanted notice for a fugitive bank executive for fraudulence, illegally appropriating over 10 million USD from a customer.

The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned of a high risk of the return of avian influenza in Vietnam after the epidemic was put under control for a long period of time.

As many as 4.6 million hectares of land, or 59 percent of total rice area in Vietnam, have been cultivated with domestically-made varieties.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of students burst into crying when teacher Nguyen Thanh Nhan talked about  parents and how students should behave towards teachers. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Instead of resisting the robotization trend or the 4.0 revolution, cheap labor markets like Vietnam should learn to live with the trend, experts say. 

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2017, Vietnam exported 353,000 tons of cashew nuts, worth $3.52 billion, an increase of one percent in quantity and 23.8 percent in export turnover compared with 2016. 

A delegation of scientists and Binh Thuan provincial officials met in Dong Nai province at a conference in early February to discuss solutions to settle pollution in the adjacent area of Binh Thuan and Dong Nai provinces.

 In a major shift in perspective, the Government is viewing small scale projects as the best, most sustainable way of tapping the nation’s hydropower potential.

 Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged ministries, sectors and localities to finish the build-up and carrying out of the e-Government architectural framework at ministerial and provincial levels before September this year.

 The Ministry of Finance has proposed raising environmental protection taxes on oil and petroleum products from the current 3,000 VND (13 US cents) to the ceiling level of 4,000 VND (17 cents) per litre beginning July 1, 2018.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese in Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa province are registering businesses under their names and then transferring them to Chinese, allowing Chinese staff to work without a work permit. 

 The Da Nang-born songwriter and songstress Le Cat Trong Ly will introduce her latest songs during two special music nights at L’Espace on March 3 & 4.  

 Planning and Investment Minister Nguyen Chi Dung tells Thoi bao kinh doanh that the high spirits engendered by 2017’s impressive gains will spur socio-economic development this year and beyond.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave the order to start construction on the Long Son Petrochemicals (LSP) Complex – the first of its kind in Vietnam – at a ceremony on February 24 in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

In addition to the traditional products of gold statues depicting the God of Wealth, traders are offering dog-shaped gold products, the mascot of the year, for God of Wealth Day (Caishen Day) on the tenth day of the first lunar month.