Vice Admiral Midgette’s visit coincides with the official handover of the Coast Guard Region 4 Station from the U.S. to Viet Nam, comprisingUS$20 million worth of infrastructure and equipment.

 BKAV Corporation announced on March 28 that there have been more than 139,000 computers in Vietnam infected with a new coinminer virus called W32.AdCoinMiner. 

 Vietnamese tra fish export to the U.S. remains uninterrupted despite the U.S. tariff hike, said U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink at a press conference on March 26.

 A seminar on implementing the national data on population was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Public Security Department on March 28 with the participation of Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

 The 2018 International Piano Festival will be held at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi from August 11 – 18.

 A fire at a police station in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, in Carabobo state, has left 68 people dead, government officials say.

 The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2018 opened on March 29 and will last until April 1 at the Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao Street in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem district.

Flowering bombax ceiba or red silk cotton trees are a common sight around northern Vietnamese villages in March, as locals are swept up in an air of nostalgia for the bliss of childhood in their hometown.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang City’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) Island district opened the Hoang Sa Museum to the public in a ceremony yesterday, marking the 43rd anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (March 29).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s education sector has been ordered to shape up and improve its public image.

The VN Index has been increasing sharply since the beginning of the year with capital flowing to finance and banking, real estate, and shares with a high capitalization value.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A play about money and love adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s novel Eugénie Grandet by director Viet Linh will be staged in HCM City on Friday.

 Damaged firefighting equipment, occupied corridors, and blocked emergency exits were found in many old residential areas in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.

 The former director of the Tay Do branch of Vietcombank in Can Tho, Nguyen Minh Chuyen, has been prosecuted for swindling VND1.44 trillion ($64 million) from the bank.

Despite its failed businesses in the Vietnamese real estate market, Malaysia-based Berjaya Group has committed to invest more in Vietlott to help the firm achieve an annual turnover of VND13 trillion ($572.6 million).

 Ho Chi Minh City People's Court has just turned down a lawsuit by two Vietnamese lawyers against Apple Company over their software that they claim slows down older iPhones. 

 Some leading hotels in the central city of Danang and Quang Nam Province are putting on special food programs on the occasion of the upcoming Easter Day on April 1.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received visiting Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan in Hanoi on March 28.

 Senior official meetings of the sixth Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Summit (CLV-10) are scheduled to open in Hanoi on March 29.

 A new trade agreement along with other deals between Vietnamese and Cuban ministries, sectors and businesses are set to help bring the two countries’ relations to a new stage.