When March comes around, the ancient city of Hue is brought to life with colourful displays of Bauhinia, Bombax, and Chinaberry flowers each vying off in a show of beauty.

 A bilingual picture book in English and Vietnamese on Truong Sa (the Spratly) archipelago by female journalist My Tra has been launched in Hanoi on March 12.

After two decades in Vietnam, Parkson system has continuously announced operation stop of some four trade centers in Vietnam. Meantime, convenience stores and some other retail models such as shopping mall and Omni-channel have strongly developed.

The following is the full Viet Nam-Australia Joint Statement issued on the occasion of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc's ongoing official visit to Australia.

Vietnamese PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull have decided to upgrade the two countries’ Enhanced Comprehensive Partnership to Strategic Partnership, making Australia the 12th Strategic Parner of Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tu Lan Cave, sister of the biggest cave in the world, Son Doong, is offering visitors treks, swimming, caving trips and a race.

 The East Asia and Pacific region has seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, with schools in China and Vietnam showing significant progress, according to a new World Bank report released on March 15.

Vietnam has many competitive advantages when it comes to being an attractive destination for foreign investment, according to the EuCham’s Whitebook 2018.

 Farmers in Hanoi are throwing tonnes of radishes away despite being harvest season because of incredibly low price,s with a kilo of radishes sold for VND500 to VND1,000.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The third exhibition by the Bui (Dust) fine arts non-professional artists community is being held at the Exhibition Centre of Fine Arts and Photography, 29 Hang Bai Street, Hanoi.

 Three people in the central province of Nghe An died after drinking alcohol soaked in plants taken from a local forest.

Up to 679 local and foreign tourism businesses have been registered to participate in the Vietnam International Travel Mart 2018 which is scheduled to be held in Hanoi from March 29 to April 1.

 Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi remained among the global Top 10 most dynamic growing cities in JLL’s Short-Term City Momentum Index (CMI) 2018.

VietNamNet Bridge - Investors are now developing new types of resort properties like homestays as condotels are no longer the preferred investment channel. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The photo exhibition Midway by Duy Phuong will open to the public at L’Espace from 6pm on March 16.

 Vietnamese e-commerce has been exploding two decades after the internet first came to Viet Nam, said head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of E-Commerce and Economy Dang Hoang Hai.

 The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will inspect Viet Nam’s catfish quality control system in the next few months, according the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD).

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) issued bills worth some VND43 trillion (US$1.89 billion) in the past week to withdraw money from the banking system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some traffic policemen in Hanoi were suspended from work after they were caught taking money from violators, 

Construction investors are often totally indifferent to the storm of dust, construction waste and general filth their projects unleash on the general public.