German pianist Boris Schönleber will perform best pieces by the German composers Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann and Austrian Hugo Wolf at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on March 12.

 Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Le Minh Hung says that the Politburo has approved a restructuring project to this year handle five banks comprising three banks purchased at zero dong by SBV, DongA Bank and Sacombank.

 About 20 travel firms in Khanh Hoa Province met on March 7 to discuss a plan to form a club responsible for serving tourists from China, a major source market for the Vietnamese tourism sector.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An increase in the number of serious methanol poisoning cases reported in Ha Noi in the past several days has raised concerns among the city’s many drinkers and health authorities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Severe violations have been uncovered at 13 coal mining projects in the northern province of Quang Ninh,

Up to 2,000 households with 7,800 residents in Van Duc Commune of Ha Noi’s Gia Lam District do not have access to clean water following the Health Ministry’s standards.

 An art exhibition with the theme of Meeting 2017 will feature 120 works by eight artists at the HCMC Museum of Fine Arts in HCMC’s District 1 on March 18.

 The organizers of Miss Ocean Vietnam 2017 beauty contest has announced to host the event from June 1 to October 30 with its key target to promote environmental protection in the country.

 Less than one-third of enterprises are confident in the competitiveness of their products, whereas a majority of others are feeling the pinch of rising imports, heard a meeting between HCMC leaders and local business executives on March 7.

 Scores of homebuyers at the 584 Lilama SHB Building project in Tan Phu District, HCMC last week continued calling for compensation as they had not taken over their apartments six years after the guaranteed handover date.

 Hanoi has been placed second on the list of the world’s 17 greatest cities for food selected by the UK’s Telegraph.

 The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and labour export companies have discussed cumbersome procedures and challenges facing the sector at a meeting on March 8.

 Nha Trang City in the south central province of Khanh Hoa has welcomed thousands of Chinese visitors each day, according to the provincial Department of Tourism.

 Production and business results improved in the first two months of this year, but trade was unbalanced with strong growth in auto and mobile phone imports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade reported.

Ha Long bay has nearly 2,000 islets spanning over 1,553 squ. km in the northeast sea. It is one of the UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Sites.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and Indian tourism enterprises met in Ha Noi at a conference on Tuesday to enhance co-operation in the field.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A five-year-old boy from HCM City’s District 10 died recently from choking on jelly cubes, sold in Viet Nam in small plastic containers with a peel-off top.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viettel and VNPT, two of the three biggest network operators, are preparing to export telecom devices in large quantities.

 The Vietnamese Government has granted permission to Aeroports de Paris (ADP) to buy 20 per cent of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) and become its strategic partner.

 Doosan, the construction contractor at Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant, announced that it would take all responsibility for the recent fire.