The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Transport have agreed to work more closely together to protect the environment and cope with climate change in the field of transportation during the 2018-21 period.

Scientists have found nearly 12,000 Vietnamese marine creature species, including animals and plants, through studying the country’s marine biological resources, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

 The US Department of Commerce (DoC) announced its preliminary results of the 12th administrative review (POR 12) of the anti-dumping order on frozen warm water shrimps from Viet Nam.

 More than 2,300 runners will compete in the Dalat Ultra Trail 2018 to be held in Lac Duong District in the Central Highliands province of Lam Dong on March 16-18.

 Tang Nguyet Minh will become the first Vietnamese woman to take part in the 2018 North Pole Marathon to be run on April 9.

Vietnamese top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam entered the final of men’s doubles category of the India F2 Futures tennis tournament in Kolkata yesterday.

 The Viet Nam national U16 team came from behind to defeat Laos 2-1 in the international friendly tournament ASEAN 2018 held in Miyazaki, Japan, yesterday.

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 An exhibition of paintings by 70 women artists, highlighting women and love, opened in HCM City on Thursday.      

Vietnam and Poland will perform in the curtain-raiser of the 2018 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival on the central city’s Han River on April 30.

 Female sculptor Le Thi Hien is holding her first solo exhibition, which will open from 5pm today at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum.

 The HCM City health sector is focused on increasing the number of doctors and hospital beds per 10,000 population to 18 and 42 this year, a health official said, from last year’s figure of 17 doctors and 40 beds.

 The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a proposal by the Department of Transport to increase the fees for automobiles parked on roadsides and pavements.

The Ministry of Education and Training is expecting the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to continue their technical and financial support for Vietnamese higher educational projects.

Collaboration across industry, academia and government is needed to both retrain the existing workforce and better prepare the next generation of graduates from secondary schools and universities to achieve optimal success with the Industry 4.0.

 The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee has ordered the Government Inspectorate to speed up the inspection over the purchase of 95 percent of shares at the AVG Audiovisual JSC by the MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation.

 The charm of Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai (long dress) was the main theme of a talk in HCM City on March 8 as part of the fifth Ao Dai festival in the city.

 A total of 271 players from 21 countries and territories have registered to participate in the annual HDBank International Open Chess Tournament, slated for March 10 – 15 in Hanoi.  

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