VietNamNet Bridge – Five records were broken on the closing day of the National Short-Course Swimming and Fins-swimming Championships in Da Nang yesterday, March 31.

 Vietnam has put forth a number of ideas and proposals at the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132) which have received the high level of consensus from other member countries.

 Successful real estate transactions sees strong surge in Q1, Quang Binh seeks more investors, BIDV offered US$500 million on-lending grid development project, Retail, service sectors post encouraging growth in Q1

 Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) is performing with two special guests — American conductor David Miller and the young Russian pianist Ilya Rashvovskiy — on April 3 and 4 at the Hanoi Opera House.

 Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk opened a US$1-billion dairy in a Moscow suburb, Ambassador Nguyen Thanh Son told a Russian newspaper on March 30.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Idol show-runners held auditions in HCM City on Monday, despite the Ministry of Information and Communications' decision last week not to air the show in April as scheduled.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The expansion of plane parking areas at Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City has been delayed so as not to disrupt passengers during the approaching end-of-April holiday period.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A man in the southern province of Soc Trang owns a unique ancient root with a circumference of 30 meters weighing about 30 tons.

 Vietnam are heading to Qatar for the AFC U23 Championship finals after crushing Macau 7-0 on March 31 in their last Group I match at the Shah Alam Stadium in Sepang, Malaysia.

  The two bauxite mining and processing projects in the Central Highland Province of Lam Dong, which became operational in October 2013, would incur losses for four to five years.

  The Song Hong (Red River) Delta region had attracted 5,411 foreign-invested projects worth US$65.5 billion till March 1 this year.

 The Vietnamese gymnastics team has left the country to attend a training course in Canada from March 30 to April 20, announced the General Department of Sports and Physical Training on March 31.

 Two Lao men were arrested in the border area in the central province of Quang Tri on March 31 for trying to smuggle 10,000 illegal pills into Vietnam.

 Seven Vietnamese fishermen, who were rescued and brought to Thailand by a Singaporean ship several days ago, left Bangkok for Ho Chi Minh City on March 31.

 Mui Ne beach in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan has been rated by the Global travel website Skyscanner as one of the 12 most beautiful beaches in Asia-Pacific region.

 The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre on March 31 reopened the Duyet Thi Duong Royal Theatre after a temporary closure to upgrade its interior.

Favored by nature, possessing many rivers and streams, Vietnamese still lack water because of mismanagement, an issue related to the message of the UN’s World Day for Water which was celebrated on March 22.

 Sudden floods marking the start of summer have claimed four lives and damaged a total of 11,000ha of rice and vegetables in the central provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai.

 Japan has committed another 112.4 billion JPY (936.4 million USD) in official development assistance to Vietnam to facilitate its socio-economic development.

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Vuong Dinh Hue and Representative of UNFPA Ritsu Nacken explored the possibility of cooperation in designing population-related policies during their working session in Hanoi on March 31.