The first runner-up of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012 contest Kha My Van will appear on the Italian Vogue- a world’s leading fashion magazine.

 The annual Kovalevskaya 2014 awards, honouring outstanding female scientists, will be presented on March 7 in Hanoi, according to the Vietnam Women’s Union.

 Foreigners and Vietnamese expatriates will receive value added tax (VAT) refunds for goods purchased in Vietnam when exiting the country through Phu Quoc International Airport in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong led a Vietnamese delegation to participate in the high-level segment of the UN Human Right Council’s 28th session, which opened in Geneva, Switzerland on March 2.

 Vietnam needs to comprehensively integrate further into the world with a specific focus on economic integration, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

 Vietnam’s richest person, real estate magnate Pham Nhat Vuong, got even richer this year and made the Forbes Magazine world’s list of top billionaires for the third consecutive year in a row.

 The fifth HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament will be organised from March 16 to 23 in HCM City.

Hanoi has unveiled a plan to develop ‘no-smoking' tourism zones in an attempt to build a friendly and civilised image for both domestic and international visitors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Co Loa Festival is held annually to commemorate and worship King An Duong Vuong Thuc Phan, the founder of Au Lac Kingdom who built Co Loa Citadel.

The site of a road accident which claimed 20 lives in Linzhou City, central China's Henan Province. Twenty people have been confirmed dead and 13 others were injured after a coach fell off a cliff late Monday night in Linzhou City.

 Stock markets in Asia were mostly down on Tuesday, despite markets in the US, where both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 closed at all-time highs.

 Bill Gates has been declared the richest man in the world for the 16th time by Forbes magazine's annual ranking of global billionaires.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A palanquin parade kicked off the long-awaited Tran Temple Festival on Sunday (March 1) in Nam Dinh Province.

VietNamNet Bridge - Tra Que vegetable village in Hoi An town in Quang Nam province held the Cau Bong festival to pray for good weather and prosperity on the seventh day of the lunar year (Feb. 25).

Year of Goat’s Tran Temple Festival opens; Festival honours Vietnamese tea; Eight national relic sites recognised; Arts exchange honours archipelagos soldiers; Women's Day under way in HCM City

Passengers get refunds for long flight delays; Ha Noi solicits investment for 20 land-using projects; 1 killed, 13 injured in Phu Yen accident; Animal health department destroys 8,000 eggs; Vietnamese French nabbed for using fake credit cards

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ensuring water-resource security and balancing supply and demand of using water was identified as key missions this year for the National Council on Water Resources.

VietNamNet Bridge – Admitting that the initial estimate to build Long Thanh Airport was “unreasonable”, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) has revised construction costs to $15.8 billion instead of $18.7 billion.

 The funeral is due to be held of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead in Moscow.

Vietnam Airlines wants to buy domestic terminal at Noi Bai airport; Vinpearl proposes 54-hole golf course in Ha Noi; FDI inflow declines but disbursement increases; KLF announces plans to raise charter capital