Viet Nam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) will organise its shareholders’ meeting on March 19 with an important plan to increase its current charter capital.

 Domestic waterway tourism in HCM City can not develop with its current weak infrastructure system.

Chairman of central Quang Nam Province People’s Committee Dinh Van Thu on Monday morning decided to deactivate all job promotion decisions to Le Phuoc Hoai Bao – director of the province’s Planning and Investment Department.

A local resident in central Quang Nam Province’s Dong Giang District has handed over a red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) to the district’s forest management unit, according to local authorities.

 From January to March every year, scores of photographers rush to Co Thach Beach in Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan Province to get the best shots of stunning moss-covered stones in early morning fog.

 The southern province of Binh Duong has announced it will organise the World Technopolis Association (WTA) Events in October since its capital, Binh Duong City, has just become a member of the association.

 Five persons were confirmed dead after a fire broke out at a house in Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province’s Da Lat City on Monday night.

 Five workers died and four others are missing after falling down with cargo in the Red River in northern Lao Cai Province on Sunday.

 Vietnam needs more preferential policies to attract investors to the local cosmetics sector, economic experts have recommended.

 Lawmakers should reconsider the feasibility of a draft regulation asking primary school teachers to have university diplomas given that up to 40 per cent of primary teachers currently fail to meet this requirement.

 The market value of Government bonds (G-bonds) hit 1 quadrillion VND (44 billion USD) as of the end of February 2018, equivalent to 20 percent of Vietnam’s GDP in 2017.

Viet Van, a reporter of Lao Dong Newspaper won the Outstanding Achievement award in the still life category of the US’s Photography Master Cup contest for his work entitled "The copper tray and two eggs".

 The 22nd sitting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly kicked off in Hanoi on March 12 under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. 

 Inheriting and promoting traditional moral qualities, Vietnamese women are improving their role and position in society by themselves, significantly contributing to national construction and development.

 Vietnam – Australia economic cooperation thrives

 Nearly 200 delegates from 55 domestic and foreign universities are participating in the 2018 CDIO Asian Regional Meeting in the central city of Da Nang from March 12-14 to boost cooperation in technical training.

 The third Hoi An International Food Festival 2018 - “Taste the World” is taking place in Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam, from March 11-17.

The HCM City People’s Procuracy on March 12 proposed jail sentences of 8-15 years for ten former Navibank officials involving in the case of “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences” at the bank. 

Outgoing Ambassador of Chile to Vietnam Claudio Andres De Negri Quintana has been honoured with the “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” insignia of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations.

 GreenAms Robotics Team 6520 of the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted are showing their talents in making robots at the First Robotics Competition which began in Sydney city, Australia, on March 12.