Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his delight at the vigorous growth of the Vietnamese and Lao parliaments’ cooperation while meeting with Lao National Assembly Chairwoman Pany Yathotou in Hanoi on March 6.

 The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) wants to work with Ho Chi Minh City in tacking urban issues, such as traffic congestion and waste treatment, said President of the bank Jin Liqun.

 Parliamentarians of Vietnam and Thailand should step up coordination and exchange, especially at multilateral forums, in order to further bolster links between legislative bodies of the two nations, a Vietnamese law-maker has said.   

 The Philippines and Vietnam should work to strengthen bilateral cooperation across sectors in line with the strategic partnership established in 2015, said Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

 Senior defence officials of Vietnam and Myanmar have agreed to continue bolstering defence cooperation between the two countries and making it deeper, more effective and practical in the future.

 A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack or adequate hygiene,

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 A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Friday raised caution about central banks issuing digital currencies as they are vulnerable to cyber attacks and criminal activities along with privacy issues that still need to be addressed.

On a visit to Hanoi on March 6, Chair of the National Assembly of Laos Pany Yathotou met with her counterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan to discuss inter-parliamentary cooperation.

 Journalist-turned-artist Nguyen Thu Thuy brings her 10 installation works to the ’Bulgarian Rose Festival with Friends’ on an island in Thong Nhat (Reunification) Park.

 PSA Group (PEUP.PA) has agreed to buy Opel from General Motors (GM.N) in a deal valuing the business at 2.2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), creating a new regional car giant to challenge market leader Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE).

 The great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner's Requiem will perform for the first time at Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on March 9.

 Nguyen Thi Thach Thao, Tran Thi Lan Huong and Mai Thanh Duy won the champion in the category of Individual of the 2017 Charming Ao Dai Contest in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5.

Ho Chi Minh City urgently builds more public toilets as per a directive of the municipal People’s Committee.

HCMC Real Estate Association forecast that the needs of affordable housing, low cost commercial, social housing and low cost apartments for lease will approximate one million apartments in the next decade.

 Foreign duo Fagan and Stevens both scored helping Hai Phong beat Quang Nam 2-0 in the eighth round of the Toyota V-League 2017 last weekend to jump up to fourth place in the provisional standings with 13 points.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Proposed legislation to eliminate some favourable conditions for female workers has met with resistance by both workers and employer.  

 Vietnam has secured two additional places in the 2017 Chess World Cup (males category) and the 2018 Women’s World Chess Championship after the Zone 3.3 qualification tournament concluded on March 5 in the Philippines.

 Vietnam is making great strides in equitising its state-owned enterprises, but more efforts are necessary to welcome foreign capital into the domestic market.