The East Asia and Pacific region has seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, with schools in China and Vietnam showing significant progress, according to a new World Bank report released on March 15.

Vietnam has many competitive advantages when it comes to being an attractive destination for foreign investment, according to the EuCham’s Whitebook 2018.

 Farmers in Hanoi are throwing tonnes of radishes away despite being harvest season because of incredibly low price,s with a kilo of radishes sold for VND500 to VND1,000.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The third exhibition by the Bui (Dust) fine arts non-professional artists community is being held at the Exhibition Centre of Fine Arts and Photography, 29 Hang Bai Street, Hanoi.

 Three people in the central province of Nghe An died after drinking alcohol soaked in plants taken from a local forest.

Up to 679 local and foreign tourism businesses have been registered to participate in the Vietnam International Travel Mart 2018 which is scheduled to be held in Hanoi from March 29 to April 1.

 Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi remained among the global Top 10 most dynamic growing cities in JLL’s Short-Term City Momentum Index (CMI) 2018.

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors are now developing new types of resort properties like homestays as condotels are no longer the preferred investment channel. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The photo exhibition Midway by Duy Phuong will open to the public at L’Espace from 6pm on March 16.

 Vietnamese e-commerce has been exploding two decades after the internet first came to Viet Nam, said head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of E-Commerce and Economy Dang Hoang Hai.

 The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will inspect Viet Nam’s catfish quality control system in the next few months, according the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD).

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) issued bills worth some VND43 trillion (US$1.89 billion) in the past week to withdraw money from the banking system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some traffic policemen in Hanoi were suspended from work after they were caught taking money from violators, 

Construction investors are often totally indifferent to the storm of dust, construction waste and general filth their projects unleash on the general public. 

 A start-up that claims it will one day allow people to back-up their brains admits it will come at the ultimate price: death.

 Defending champion Le Quang Liem is close to the leading group of the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament after winning the seventh game in the morning session on March 14.

With the cold high pressure system weakening and moving east and a subtropical high pressure system crossing the south, there will be a heat wave in the south, including HCM City, until May.

 The People’s Court of Hanoi on March 14 sentenced three Chinese men, all from Jiangxi province, to up to 42 months in prison for using fake bank cards to steal cash from ATMs.

 Dancers from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) will perform The Firebird ballet in a contemporary style featuring Vietnamese folk dance at Hanoi Opera House on March 15-16.

Vietnamese players continued their good performance at the ongoing Junior Davis Cup pre-qualification, Asia-Oceania zone, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.