VietNamNet Bridge – Riparian communes should be asked to stop permitting individuals or firms to set up sand-gathering sites on the banks of the Red River,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Dac Phu, director of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health, speaks to VietnamPlus about the scarcity of some vaccines under the national immunisation programme.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The year 2014  marked one of the biggest events in recent years in the global economy: China’s hot growth in the three consecutive decades came to an end.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With a raft of free trade agreements on the way, a checklist of equitisations, and new legislation in place to support foreign investment, a new wave of M&As are forecast to sweep across Vietnam.

 Two former leaders of NamA Bank, Tran Ngo Phuc Vu and Tran Ngoc Tam, now represent this bank’s share holdings at the Vietnam Bank for Export and Import (Eximbank) and are expected to run for board membership at Eximbank’s upcoming general meeting.

 In an initial public offering plan, Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) will convert debts owed to other firms into shares and have a positive cash flow by 2019.

 Vietnam and the Philippines have launched a hotline to facilitate the timely exchange of information on fishing activities.

 A voluntary organisation located in Mikkeli, Finland dedicated to promoting young entrepreneurs’ concepts and assisting them in starting a new business venture recently chose to assist Vietnamese Le Hoang with an app he is developing.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has confirmed that airlines will have to include the environment fee in their adjustments of airfare ,but it is still unclear how this would be implemented.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Education and Training hopes to increase average classroom space to 6-8sq.m for each school student this year by reducing the number of children per class.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Complaints have been made that some banks and registration centres entrusted with collecting fees to check vehicles for roadworthiness delay sending the money to a central State fund known as the Viet Nam Register

VietNamNet Bridge - One of the aims of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform is to streamline enterprises’ operations, but they continue to expand.

 Guinean President Alpha Conde has declared a 45-day "health emergency" in five regions in the west and south-west of the country over Ebola.

 New bridge opens in Da Nang, Unusual floods kill 3 in central Vietnam, Australia assists Vietnam in improving water quality, Traffic banned on Pasteur and Le Duan Streets, Three die in separate train accidents

 American fast food franchise makes longest sandwich in VN, New musical film to be broadcast next month, Vietnam’s culture promoted in Australia, HCM City literature, art and press award kicked off, 200-meter water slide set up in town

 Ministers from six world powers are expected to hold their first full session on Monday with Iran's foreign minister over its nuclear programme.

  Viet Nam is now seen as one of the leading countries in the field of software outsourcing and digital content, which has been given priority by the Party and State.

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) on Thursday awarded a non-refundable grant worth US$1 million to Cong Ly Construction-Trade-Tourism Ltd. Co. for a feasibility study to develop a 300 MW wind power project in Viet Nam.

 Dong Nai Province authorities on Friday called a halt to reclamation of the Dong Nai River for construction of housing.

  Marcelo Pino, Chile's most-talked about young sommelier, will take part in a Chile Wine Tour to introduce that country's wines in HCM City on March 31.