Former general director of the State-run PetroVietnam Exploration Production Corporation (PVEP) Do Van Khanh, 58, was accused of receiving interest payments worth more than VND4 billion under the counter from OceanBank.

 Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official visit to the U.S. this year at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, the local media reported.

 According to reports in the German media, Bundesliga club Borussia Monchengladbach have set their sights on signing young Vietnam national team star Doan Van Hau.

 Although the US latest report on human right practices acknowledges Vietnam’s achievements in protecting human rights, it still includes some assessments that are not objective and do not reflect the actual situation in Vietnam.

 Hanoi People's Court on Thursday started the first trial in the intellectual property infringement between a local company and a renowned director over the popular The Quintessence of Tonkin show.

 More than sixty six large trees of rare species were found to have been illegally cut down in the core of a protected forest area in the central province of Quang Bình.

The No 1 seed, Grandmaster (GM) Wang Hao of China, won the 9th HDBank International Chess Open Tournament 2019, which closed on Wednesday (March 13) in HCM City after a week of exciting world-class competition among 304 players.

 A toll station in Tiền Giang was planning to start collecting fees again from March 25, more than a year after it was shut down, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Nhật announced.

 Pig-farming Từ Tây Ward in Yên Phú Commune, Yên Mỹ District, the northern province of Hưng Yên, is going through hard times, with farmers forced to cull hundreds of pigs infected with African swine fever every day.

 A series of companies who rushed to trade rice a decade ago are now facing difficulties and in some cases, have gone bust.

 Cross-border e-commerce platform Fado Vietnam and its Chinese counterpart Alibaba signed a cooperation agreement on March 14 in HCM City to launch a new trading channel supporting Vietnamese firms, especially SMEs.

 China is current the biggest market for Vietnamese agricultural products, but its demand for fruits and vegetables is still growing, offering a chance for Vietnamese firms to boost even stronger shipments to this country.

 Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and his Czech counterpart Lukas Kaucky conducted a political consultation in Hanoi on March 14 to discuss bilateral ties as well as regional and international issues of shared concern. 

 The Netherlands is an important partner of Vietnam in Europe, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a reception for newly-accredited Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Elsbeth Akkerman in Hanoi on March 14.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong chaired a meeting today to discuss solutions to curb and prevent further outbreaks of the African swine fever.

 Can Tho University and the Centre for Chinese Cultural Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy discussed cooperation in human resources training and scientific research on March 14.

 Vietnam has repeatedly requested Malaysia to ensure a fair trial for and legitimate rights of citizen Doan Thi Huong, a suspect in the murder of a DPRK national at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017.

 Export of shrimps has been facing several challenges as shrimp export value merely touched US$3.6 billion, down 7.8 percent over the same period last year although the shrimp farming area and production rose 3 percent and 6.3 percent respectively.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts estimate that the corporate bond market will grow by rate of 30-40 percent per annum. Anticipating tighter capital flow from banks, businesses are issuing bonds to mobilize capital. 

The Liaison Board of Truong Sa Soldiers for the 1984 – 1988 period held a ceremony on March 14 to commemorate the Vietnam People’s Navy soldiers who fell down on Gac Ma island, part of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, in 1988.