Special Task Police Battalion No 1, an elite unit of the Ministry of Public Security’s Mobile Police High Command, marked its 20th anniversary and was awarded the Feat Order (first class) by President Tran Dai Quang in the capital on March 10. 

 The death penalty was submitted on Thursday by the People’s Procuracy of Hoa Binh Province against 11 defendants for “illegally trading and storing drugs” as part of a massive trans-national heroin trafficking operation.

 President Tran Dai Quang requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Vietnam to direct judicial authorities to investigate a recent incident involving the sexual abuse of children in Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese investors attach high importance to expanding their investments in Vietnam. However, the localization ratio of their products remains modest, at 34 percent, much lower than that in other regional countries.

 Four members of a family were killed when a major fire broke out at 12:30am on Sunday at house No 1686 on Provincial Highway 10 in HCM City’s Bình Thành District.

 Hanoi Buffaloes leveled a 1-1 score with Thai powerhouse Hitech in the second play-off match in the Thailand Super Basketball League in Bangkok on March 12.

 Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision to remove Nguyen Quoc Khanh as chairman of the board of directors of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) to enable his transfer to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

VietNamNet Bridge - China is pushing hard to build a new institution to accelerate cooperation among Asia Pacific countries. 

 Representatives from Vietnam’s tea-growing localities and famous tea firms took part in a recent seminar in New York, to seek opportunities to enter the US market.

 Overloaded vehicles are once again being spotted on roads and highways across the country, despite the Government crackdown.

 Life had become difficult for Ho Nguyen Hoang of Nghe An Province ever since he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and began treatment at the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi.

More than 1,000 voluntary students and two ambassadors of the Earth Hour 2017 campaign on March 11 rode bicycles on several streets in the HCM City’s centre to call on residents to switch off lights and unnecessary electric appliances to save energy.

 The authorities of the central province of Quang Nam will spend over 128 billion VND (5.6 million USD) on a project to establish an elephant conservation area. 

 The health ministry has asked Hanoi and HCM City to expand specialised inspection on food safety to 100 percent of its districts and communes after successful trial implementation of this model.

As many as 305 badminton players from 16 countries are expected to compete in the Ciputra Hanoi-Yonex Sunrise Vietnam International Challenge 2017, the organisers said on March 10.

Despite facing challenges, Vietnam has great opportunities to sustain its high economic growth rate, a seminar heard in HCM City on March 9.

 Weak supply chains and the impacts of climate change are hindering efforts by the Central Highlands to grow into a thriving agricultural hub.

 Seven goods items earn billions of USD from export in first 2 months

The construction of the Tonkin Gulf fishery logistics center in Co To island district, northern Quang Ninh province, is expected to be put into operation in March, said Secretary of the district Party’s Committee Hoang Ba Nam. 

 Some 34,214 State-owned cars cost the State budget more than 486 million USD per year, according to Tran Duc Thang, Director of the Department of Public Asset Management under the Ministry of Finance (MoF).