A ceremony took place at the Ly Thai To Statue Square in downtown Hanoi on March 15 evening to celebrate the 2019 International Francophone Day (March 20).

 Flower arrangements of two Vietnamese artists for the first time are on displayed at the Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Exhibition, which kicked off in Osaka city of Japan on March 15.

 Many banks have recently announced they will recruit a large number of personnel to meet their business expansion plans in 2019.

 Vietnamese intellectuals in the Australian state of New South Wales will engage in many activities at hi-tech parks in Vietnam on March 26 and 27 so as to seek ways to apply their researches’ outcomes in the homeland.

 The 2018 report on global air quality released by AirVisual and Greenpeace Southeast Asia assessing Hanoi as the second most polluted city in Southeast Asia is partial and inaccurate.

 The recent incident about YouTube terminating the Content Hosting Service Agreement (CHSA) with Vietnam’s media group Yeah1 will cause the company to lose its revenue share from its YouTube third party/partners’ channels.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from March 18 to 24.

 As of present, Dai Dung Metallic Manufacture Construction and Trade Corporation is the only Vietnamese enterprise partaking in the building of football stadiums for the upcoming World Cup event.

 The outbreaks of the African Swine Fever (ASF) were observed in 17 provinces and cities in Vietnam, according to the Department of Animal Health’s latest report on March 14.

 The People’s Committee in Ho Chi Minh City will make Nguyen Hue walking street and Le Loi street in the downtown area better to serve city dwellers’ need of entertainment and public activities, said a leader of the committee.

 The uptake of self-paid vaccines amongst parents in Ho Chi Minh City is high; however, waiting for foreign-made self-paid vaccine has risked the lives of children and the community because they have not immunized as per schedule.

 Deputy chairman of HCMC People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen presided over a meeting with relevant agencies on the progress of major projects to ease traffic jam in areas surrounding Tan Son Nhat International Airport on March 15.

 The Hanoi Taxi Association has written to the prime minister expressing disapproval of a recent Transport Ministry proposal to define transport services that use automobiles with fewer than nine seats as either a taxi or contract transport.

 Vietnam has set a target to earn US$3.83 billion from fruit exports in 2019, a year-on-year increase of only 0.8%, as China, Vietnam’s largest fruit importer, has tightened its control over the informal export of fruits to its market.

 An exhibition entitled "Lua Thanh Xuan" (Fire of the Youth) opened at the Hoa Lo prison historical relic site in Hanoi on March 15.

 Morotai, a container ship owned by CMA CGM Group Agencies (Australia) Pty Ltd., docked at the SP-ITC International Container Terminal in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, on March 15.

 Four kilometers in length, the road along To Lich River in the southwest of Hanoi will soon become a pedestrian street and the longest in the capital.

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 The Vietnamese billiards team competing at the ongoing UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams have reached the quarterfinals of the competition.

 Lac Thi communal house is one of a number of ancient communal houses in Hanoi. The house is dedicated to To Hien Thanh – a great mandarin of the late 11th and early 12th century.