Myanmar continually looks to foster cooperation with Vietnam, especially within the ASEAN framework, affirmed Myanmar leaders.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised the traditional friendship and cooperation between Slovakia and Vietnam during his meeting with the Justice Minister of the Slovak Republic Tomas Borec on March 11.

 Vietnam highly encourages Japanese investment inflow into agro-forestry-fisheries, President Truong Tan Sang told Governor of Japanese prefecture Wakayama, Yoshinobu Nisaka, during a reception in Hanoi on March 11.

 National precious objects announced; Exhibition portrays happiness road in Ha Giang; Anh wins silver in no-gold contest; 'French Village' to open soon to tourists in Danang; British book spotlights millennium-old Cham towers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors may wholly own securities and fund management companies in Vietnam from this year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Inspired by Mark Twain's call to "sail away from safe harbour", a young Vietnamese entrepreneur quit his day job, opened a cafe and began an adventure travel business.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has decided that the transfer of operation rights of a number of airports and highways would be implemented this year but the plan has proven to be unfeasible.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Industry insiders are doubtful whether the Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAMC) issuing special bonds will help reduce the overall bad debt ratio to below 3 per cent in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To welcome the lunar New Year, goat fighting festivals were held in early March in the northern mountainous provinces of Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang.

Vietnam to issue international driving licences in August; Large bomb defused in Quang Binh; Police seize 2,000 smuggled smartphones, tablets; Transport Ministry announces establishment of electronic tolls

 PVN to invest $2.3 mil in oil dump, port in Phu Quoc; Work starts on $187.8 mil urban area in Ha Long; Environmental tax on petrol to jump 300%; Samsung tops 500 fastest growing firms; 24,000 firms pay taxes electronically

 One person was killed and three injured when a north- south train slammed into a truck in the central Quang Tri Province yesterday evening.

VietNamNet Bridge – Both VietinBank and PG Bank have confirmed their merger and acquisition (M&A) deal, as have Vietcombank and Saigon Bank, Sacombank and Southern Bank, BIDV and MHB, and Maritime Bank and MDB.

VietNamNet Bridge – A man in Tien Giang province in southern Vietnam, who had been diagnosed with having a stroke and pneumonia, and later thought to be dead, was found alive at his funeral.

 Vietnamese FIDE Master Le Tuan Minh led the 44 players in the men's side of the Zone 3.3 qualifying round of the World Chess Championships 2015, held in HCM City yesterday.

  A group of investors has asked for the transport ministry's permission to build a new terminal at Da Nang International Airport in the central Da Nang City.

 Olympia Le-Tan is a self-taught fashion designer.

 The Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands organised a Vietnam-Philippines conference on March 10 in Hanoi to evaluate the implementation of bilateral cooperation in coping with oceanic oil spills and to outline future collaboration plans.

 As many as 85 chess masters from 14 countries and territories will compete in the fifth HD Bank International Open Chess Tournament from March 17-23 in Ho Chi Minh City, announced the Organising Board on March 10.

 The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival opened on March 10, attracting hundreds of local and international businesses.