VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese football fans will experience the UEFA Champion League 2015 with a first-time ever Viewing Party for the UCL final match scheduled on June 6 in HCM City.

 Thousands of people have since early this month rushed to the Immigration Management Office under the HCMC Public Security Department to apply for passports in the wake of a rumor that the passport issuance fee would pick up by US$46.6-93.2).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seven records were broken at the curtain-raiser of the National Short-Course Swimming and Diving Championships in Hue yesterday, March 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The tale of a Vietnamese woman's difficult journey from war-torn Sai Gon to a crowded Malaysian refugee camp and then to Quebec has won the Canadian Broadcasting Commission's book competition

 Timatex Vietnam Co. Ltd. has taken legal action against the HCMC Tax Department over the collection of US$2.8-million tax arrears but it is still open for negotiation to solve the problem.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bulletproof, heavy armored, and water-cannon vehicles were introduced in a ceremony on March 22 with the Hanoi police, in preparation for the upcoming 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly.

 Pegas Touristik will add one more chartered flight this week connecting Russian capital Moscow and Cam Ranh of Khanh Hoa Province.

 The Ministry of Transport has started applying an intelligent transportation system (ITS) to HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway to regulate traffic and guarantee safety for motorists on the expressway.

VietNamNet Bridge - The local authorities’ approval of a project to fill up a section of the Dong Nai River to build a new urban area would cause serious consequences, scientists have warned.

Favourable conditions are now in place for cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese companies, including those in the digital content and software industry, said Bui Huy Son – Director of the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency.

 Hanoi's leafy boulevards with thousands of old trees prettify the capital city as an attractive destination for local residents and tourists, inspiring artistic creativity of generations of artists.

 Actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against cancer.

 Vietnam will play Turkmenistan in the opening Group B match of the Davis Cup's Group Three Asia/Oceania zone in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 25. The other teams are Syria and Cambodia.

A solution to monitor traffic via smartphones is being considered for 2016, but many Vietnamese doubt the solution is feasible.

 The 12th ASEAN Taekwondo Federation (ATF) Championships kicked off at the Lanh Binh Thang Sporting Hall in Ho Chi Minh City on March 23, attracting a record number of athletes.

VietNamNet Bridge - While FDI in agriculture has dropped dramatically by 30 times just over the last 15 years, domestic investment in the sector has been increasing steadily in recent years.

 Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has approved the designing of a master plan for energy development from 2016-2025.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The winners of the fourth edition of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) were announced at an annual awards ceremony last week.

 The French group Aeroports de Paris (ADP) will collaborate with the financial services holding company Credit Swiss to mobilise US$2.5 billion to $3 billion for Long Thanh International Airport Project in Vietnam's Dong Nai Province.

 A Germanwings plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.