Electronic commerce in Vietnam has been growing at an average 22% a year, following the world trend of combining traditional and online sale, heard a conference on new trends of e-commerce in the southern province of Dong Nai on March 7.

 The number of criminal cases in 2016 was 54,511, a reduction of 4.4 percent from 2016 but organised crimes have shown signs of increasing in some localities.

Chess players in Vietnam are looking forward to some exciting matchups when the HDBank Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2017 (March 12-17) opens in just a few days in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Vietnam and Malaysia boast a huge potential for cooperation, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told outgoing Vietnamese Ambassador to Malaysia Pham Cao Phong. 

 UN Under-Secretary-General Gyan Chandra Acharya has appreciated the Vietnamese Government’s consistent assistance to landlocked developing countries through its participation in action programmes.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received three United Nations Under-Secretary-Generals in Hanoi on March 7, saying that Vietnam attaches special importance to relations with the UN.

 Vietnam will do its best to help Laos, especially in transport development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told visiting Lao Minister of Public Works and Transport Bounchanh Sinthavong during their meeting in Hanoi on March 7.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese make video clips to post on YouTube as they believe it allows them to make money quickly and easy. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Protective forests are being cut down at a high rate, despite laws that oversee such violations. 

Online booking has been witnessing stable growth in Vietnam in the last few years. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) plans to transfer 40,000 redundant teachers from general schools to preschools, which need 30,000 more teachers. 

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has highlighted Vietnam’s commitments to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as the country’s support for cooperation partners at a UN meeting in Hanoi on March 7.

 Vietnamese and Lao legislators shared experience in management decentralisation from central to grassroots levels during a workshop held in Hanoi on March 7.

The Minister of Information and Communications has asked the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information to punish cases in which Vietnamese enterprises’ advertisements with inappropriate content featured in YouTube videos.

Vietnam’s major estate developer Sun Group will launch the sales ceremony for villas in the Premier Village Phu Quoc Resort and condotels in the Premier Residences Phu Quoc Emerald Bay on March 11-12.

 The individual prize of the annual Kovalevskaya awards 2016 went to Prof. Dr. Nguyen Kim Phi Phung, a lecturer from the University of Natural Science under the Vietnam National University – HCM City.

 Vietnam’s logistics sector aims to contribute 8-10 percent to gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, heard a conference hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) in Hanoi on March 6. 

 Health Ministry yesterday asked its sub-departments nationwide to strengthen reactive prevention of whooping cough to curb the wide spread.

 A seven year old kid from the southern province of Dong Nai was found to have a large hairball blocking her digestive system.

 Head of the Management Center of the Saigon River Tunnel Le Minh Triet yesterday said that as per the traffic digital map management system, a system of 300 surveillance cameras will be installed in traffic jam-prone spots.