Concert to highlight string instrument, oboe performances, Cartoon contest focuses on gender equality, Hon Viet variety show gets new venue, Australian cinematographer exhibits Polaroids, Traditional music to be played at L'Espace

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy Cao Chinh Thien toured the European country’s Veneto region and its capital city of Venice, whose officials voiced their readiness to expand cooperation with Vietnam.

 The Vietnamese and Lao chairpersons of the two countries’ joint committee for border marker planting held a meeting in Hanoi on March 1 and 2.

 The National Assembly Committee for Social Affairs convened its 14th plenary session in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 2 to prepare for the upcoming National Assembly sitting.

Nguyen Tien Minh qualified for the second round at the ongoing German Open badminton tournament.

 Vietnam's Olympic qualification hopes took a blow after a 9-0 loss to Australia in a qualification tournament in Japan yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese artists based in Germany are showcasing the harmony between the two cultures through an exhibition titled Migration and Identity.

 More than 833,000 foreign visitors entered Viet Nam in February, a 3.5 per cent increase from the previous month and 20 per cent surge year-on-year.

 One in three, or 35 per cent of pregnant women, are victims of domestic violence, mostly at the hands of husbands, according to doctors at Ha Noi Medical University (HMU).

Local NGO DRD (Disability Resource and Development) and Hoa Sen University have launched a smart phone application that provides disabled people with locations of disabled-friendly community venues.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese businessmen are well known in the country not only because they have trillions of dong worth of assets, but also because they are brothers as well as billionaires.

 The illegal parking of coaches on streets in HCM City in order to collect and drop off passengers has been a headache for local authorities, but coach operators insist measures should be taken to create more favourable conditions for them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Non-state universities are concerned that they will not find students once the new enrollment policy is applied. It allows schools to apply many different methods to enroll students, and has no floor mark for junior colleges.

VietNamNet Bridge - The machine uses acetylene and plasma to cut metals via computer numerical control (CNC). This is a product created by a creative business owner in Tien Giang Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat on Monday asked Viet Nam Administration of Forestry to suspend construction by Le Mont Bavi Resort and Spa in Ba Vi National Park.

VietNamNet Bridge – Local administration discovered illegal logging in another area of the protected Nature Reserve on Son Tra peninsula Monday. Two other locations were found destroyed in the same area last week. 

 Vietnam is set to become the biggest beneficiaries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal out of the four Southeast Asian participants, the other three being Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, according to the UK Financial Times.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tuy Loan Village in Danang City organized a communal house festival as one of the biggest spring festive events of Danang and as a traditional activity in the spiritual life of local residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A scientific seminar, entitled Sac Menh Chi Bao (Wooden Seal Found in an Archaeological Excavation at Thang Long Royal Citadel in 2012-14), was held late last month.

 Hospitals face more competition as city funding falls, Vietnam and international partners to coordinate in combatting diseases, Drawing contest reflects Vietnamese satires on gender equality, World Bank to facilitate traffic flow in Hanoi