Doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix to 36 percent by 2030 could save the world economy up to $4.2 trillion a year,

VietNamNet Bridge - Big money has been poured into pearl projects in Vietnam, which has a long coastline of 3,600 kilometers, but profits have sometimes been unsatisfactory.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rising demand for credit across Vietnam’s private sector is expected to drive bank loan books above the highs recorded last year.

 German and local filmmakers will gather at Mini Docfest documentary festival hosted by Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 on March 19-20.

 Hanoi will host a series of activities on March 19 in response to the 2016 Earth Hour, which promotes how a small individual action can make a big influence.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese unlisted public companies (UPCoM) doubled last year, and 2016 regulations should bolster once-sluggish growth even more.

M_Service JSC, the operator of mobile e-wallet MoMo, on March 17 announced it has received an investment worth $28 million from Standard Chartered Private Equity and the global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.

 Some leading hotels in HCM City have prepared special treats to serve diners on the occasion of the upcoming Easter Day on March 27.

 Miss Ao Dai Vietnam Tran Ngoc Lan Khue has bowed out of the Top 20 at Miss Grand Slam 2015, according to GlobalBeauties.com.

 Foreign audiences gave big rounds of applause for Vietnamese-American piano child prodigy Evan Le while watching him playing Turkey March by genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at NBC’s Little Big Shots on March 13.

 The Republic of Singapore Navy's (RSN) Endurance-class Landing Ship Tank (LST), RSS Endurance, led by Lieutenant Colonel Noel Chen Xin Yi, arrived at Cam Ranh Bay on March 17 to start a five-day port call.

 VN Index will climb to reach the highest level since 2008 as a rising economy and earnings draw investors, Bloomberg Business news reported on March 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign investors have shown their interest in the value of the hotline of the HCM City Party Secretary Dinh La Thang and expect that the transparency of the investment environment will improve.

 The upcoming visit to Vietnam by President of the National Assembly of France Claude Bartolone is expected to further the strategic partnership between the two countries – which was signed in September 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge - 1988 is considered the peak year of Vietnam's difficulties when the economic crisis in the country worsened and Vietnam’s main supporter, the Soviet Union, was in a difficult situation.

VietNamNet Bridge - A new drug for cancer treatment produced by Vietnam at the price which is equivalent to one third of the similar one processed by the US will be available soon. The medicine has been successfully tested on animals in laboratory.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said nearly 300,000 households lost their income in recent months or were affected by drought and saltwater intrusion, the worst in the Mekong Delta in the last 100 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City have launched a new bus route (No. 109) from 23/9 Park in District 1 to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Tan Binh District.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cong Tri, a well-known fashion designer in Vietnam, launched his haute couture collection called “Paddy” at the Tokyo Fashion Week on March 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bloomberg has quoted a close source as saying that Aeon - the giant retailer from Japan – is approaching an agreement to acquire the Big C Vietnam chain of France’s Casino Group.