Airport Corporation of Vietnam will sell more than 166 million shares to French airport management firm Aeroport de Paris at the starting price of no more than VND13,100 (6 U.S. cents) per share.

 Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PVN) has shown its reluctance to purchase products of Nghi Son oil refinery as they do not meet European 4 emissions standards (Euro 4). 

 The HCMC Department of Tourism on March 16 offered a public apology to Egyptian tourist Alaa Mohammad Abdu Ali Aldoh who lost her handbag in a drive-by robbery in District 1 a week ago.

 More than US$1 million has been mobilised from Thai and Vietnamese sponsors so far to serve the fifth Asian Beach Games 2016 (ABG 5) that will take place in the central city of Da Nang in September.

VietNamNet Bridge - Included in the list of the most dynamic companies in Asia, or the Asia 300 of the Japanese news agency Nikkei, Vietnam has five businesses: Vingroup, Vietcombank, FPT Group, PetroVietnam Gas and Vinamilk.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three years after her seventh solo exhibition in Canada, painter Dinh Thi Tham Poong recently presented to art lovers her latest solo exhibition showcasing her different style.  

 Hanoi’s Department of Internal Affairs has been heavily criticised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs after it issued a document which tweaked the recruitment policies for full-time teachers.

 The 2016 Tourism Day is scheduled to take place at the September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City from March 24- 27, announced the Department of Ho Chi Minh City Tourism at a press conference yesterday.

 The Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Eximbank) has appointed a new General Director.

 As rumors continue to swirl a representative from Big C Vietnam told VET on March 16 that “We have no official information that Aeon plans to buy Big C Vietnam.”

Four large State-owned enterprises in the agriculture sector are to be equitized before 2020: the Vietnam Rubber Group, the Vietnam Southern Food Corporation, the Vietnam Northern Food Corporation, and the Vietnam Coffee Corporation.

  Lung Khuy Cave in Quan Ba District, Ha Giang Province is considered the most beautiful cave in Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark.

 Given the success of the first edition in 2015, the Gout de France dinner event will come back on March 21, featuring 25 restaurants in HCMC, Hanoi, Danang, Hoi An and Hue.

 The musical group Bond is excited about returning for its second performance in Vietnam and to headline at the 2016 Lexus Music Night in Hanoi on March 25 said the band’s publicist in a news release.

 Most of us have probably never heard of the MICE Industry, or that it has a potential worth of billions upon billions of US dollars annually in terms of revenue for the gross national product (GNP).

Sea law experts and researchers, policy makers, diplomats and scholars have agreed on the need to address disputes in the East Sea by peaceful measures in line with international law.

 Hot hits of the original electric string quartet BOND from the UK, will be performed by the band and supported by Vietnamese artists, during the Lexus Music Night 2016, to be held in Hanoi on March 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Aside from natural forces like climate change, countries’ actions have worsened the drought and salinity in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta.

 How to use water resources of the Mekong River effectively heated up the 43rd meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Joint Committee taking place in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Well-known rock musician and singer Tran Lap died yesterday (March 17) after fighting rectum cancer for more than four months. He was 42 years old.