The southern Dong Nai Province’s transport department on Thursday ordered four sand mining and dredging projects in the region to suspend operations.

 The National Swimming Championships saw five Vietnamese individual records set in Thua Thien-Hue on Friday.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was defeated in the men’s singles semi-finals at the Japan F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Kofu City on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artisan Mai Dinh Toi, dubbed “the witch of musical instruments,” will host two live shows on Sao Viet Stage and Kasa in HCM City on March 25 and March 31, respectively.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A special musical night will be held Friday night to pay tribute to inventors and great artists of xam (blind busker’s singing) at the pedestrian zone by Hoan Kiem Lake.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi FC shot to the top position of the V.League after registering a huge 5-1 win over Long An in a late ninth-round match yesterday.

The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the Department of Transport to replace unqualified investors of underground parking lot projects that have been delayed for more than 10 years.

The Son Tra Nature Reserve – the green lung of Da Nang - will turn into a desert, and the world’s biggest population of red-shanked douc langurs will become extinct unless rapid development of hotels and resorts there is not stopped.

Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of Dong Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.

 A U.S. tax overhaul proposed by Republican leaders in Congress would deepen divisions between big manufacturers like Boeing Co and the thousands of smaller companies that supply them, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A record some 300 people will participate in the annual Tien Phong Newspaper Marathon being held in Ninh Binh Province on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The PetroVietnam (PVN) Group has decided to revoke two awards each from the Vietnam Petroleum Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) and its former chairman Trinh Xuan Thanh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang needs to invest in its tap water supply system, especially in remote areas, to effectively limit the rampant and rapid exploitation of underground water, 

 Viet Nam has officially halted meat imports from 21 Brazilian companies, which are being investigated for allegedly bribing state officials to facilitate the sale and export of sub-standard meat products.

 Rescue forces salvaged a truck from Nhat Canal in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap’s Thanh My Commune on Thursday afternoon.

 Forty-nine contracts were signed during the two-day regional conference on food security in Hanoi, which ended Thursday, the Netherlands’ deputy minister of agriculture Marjolijn Sonnema said.

 More flash floods and landslides are forecast to hit Vietnam in 2017 than last year, especially in mountainous areas in the northwest region, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Hanoi wishes to liaison with Singapore in urban planning and management, greening, smart-city construction and personnel training, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said.

Warning about the wave of millionaire emigration, economists say that millionaires are taking foreign currencies abroad, creating problems for Vietnam to control the foreign currency outflow.

 According to Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Association, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has filed geographical indication (GI) to Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand in 17 nations and territories worldwide and so far 12 have agreed to protect the brand name.