VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Cyclo Challenge hosted by Saigon Children’s Charity (SCC) will be back but at a new location, Celadon City near the Aeon Mall in HCMC’s Tan Phu District, instead of Phu My Hung town in District 7.

 The growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year, according to data from the International Energy Agency.

VietNamNet Bridge – The competition among fast-food brands in Vietnam has become fierce as they now have to struggle on the internet. 

 Vietnamese firms have reported that finding qualified employees to fill critical positions is one of their biggest challenges and it is impeding both growth and the attraction of foreign investment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rhino horn syndicates may have replaced Vietnamese couriers with white South Africans to courier the illegal horns on commercial flights from Africa to Asia because of courier profiling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Singaporean conductor Kah Chun Wong will perform at concerts held by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi on the nights of March 20 and 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge –The Ministry of Transport will launch a pilot scheme to collect e-toll at three tollgates on National Highway 1A and Ho Chi Minh Road.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Knight Frank report predicts that in the next 10 years, the number of super-rich in Vietnam will double to 300, followed by Indonesia and the Ivory Coast.

The only gaur in the forest of Phuoc Binh, Ninh Thuan province, central Vietnam, died on March 8 due to old age and poor health. It lived for six years with domestic cows and left nearly 30 crossbred cows. Let’s review the gaur’s special life.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In a meeting with the local media in Hanoi on Friday, the Russian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Konstantin Vasilievich Vnukov, announced that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to a survey in Asia Pacific “Quarterly PC Tracker” by IDC, Vietnam is the only PC market in Asia that continues to see growth (2%) in 2014, with 2.13 million PCs sold.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ten years ago a man named Mr. Minh discovered a 2.3mm stone in his kidney but he did not have money for treatment. The stone is now as big as an orange.

 The last rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the long-awaited 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132) was held at the National Assembly headquarters in Hanoi on March 15.

 The forthcoming visit to Australia by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on March 17-18, the second of its kind, is expected to consolidate and deepen the comprehensive partnership between the two countries.

 Speaker of the Republic of Korea’s National Assembly Chung Ui-hwa is going to pay official visits to the Philippines and Vietnam in a bid to consolidate his country’s ties with Southeast Asia, the RoK NA Secretariat announced on March 13.

Vietnam is a valued partner for New Zealand in the region and New Zealand welcomes the cooperation with Vietnam given her important role in ASEAN, Prime Minister John Key has said.

Vietnam welcomes the intensified cooperation between the US and the Asia-Pacific on the principle of respecting the United Nations Charter, international law, and countries’ political institution, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Police have issued a warning to taxi drivers about a spate of violent robberies in the first two months of this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has worked with other ministries to set up a working team for designing a Support Programme to Respond to Climate Change (SP-RCC) in 2016-2020,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and other related authorities should prepare for the smooth organisation of this year’s national high school graduation and university entrance exam,