Foreign duo Fagan and Stevens both scored helping Hai Phong beat Quang Nam 2-0 in the eighth round of the Toyota V-League 2017 last weekend to jump up to fourth place in the provisional standings with 13 points.

 Vietnam has secured two additional places in the 2017 Chess World Cup (males category) and the 2018 Women’s World Chess Championship after the Zone 3.3 qualification tournament concluded on March 5 in the Philippines.

 Vietnam is making great strides in equitising its state-owned enterprises, but more efforts are necessary to welcome foreign capital into the domestic market.

 Uber is yet again in new disagreements with authorities.

 Vietnam’s import-export revenue has increased four-fold in the past decade after joining the WTO, the General Department of Customs reports.

 A Malaysian lawyer, S. Selvam Shanmugam, came to Vietnam to meet with the family of Doan Thi Huong, the Vietnamese suspect in the killing of North Korean citizen Kim Chol in Malaysia.

 Some major brands in Viet Nam had to stop advertising on the world’s largest online video site, YouTube, when these brands’ advertisements were linked to clips containing poor content.

 Many State-owned enterprises are seeking to divest from commercial banks this year, as forecasts for the local stock remain positive.

 Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) will offer 25 per cent of its capital during its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), scheduled in the second quarter of 2017, the group has announced.

 Farmers in the central highland city of Da Lat have earned high profits from successfully growing some types of foreign fruit like Tamarillo tomato imported from Ecuador and Cara cara orange from Australia.

Vietnam’s cold chain market is expected to expand considerably in the next few years, offering investors ample business opportunities in the field. 

 The benchmark VN-Index has ended its winning run of nine consecutive weeks under heavy profit-taking selling pressures. The market is forecast to remain volatile due to ongoing portfolio restructuring of exchange-traded funds.

 The Central Highlands region has become an increasingly attractive destination for investment which has fueled economic growth and improved people’s livelihoods.

 A delegation of the Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina visited Mendoza province from March 3-5, aiming to tighten investment and trade links.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam was among the 16 foreign delegations attending a ceremony and a parade to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Belarus’s police force in Minsk on March 3 and 4.

 A high-level Euro-Asia regional meeting on improving cooperation on transit, trade facilitation and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development will be held in Ha Noi from March 7-9.

 Over 1,000 people in the country come down with Paraquat - a weedkiller - annually.

 According to the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center, a cold air mass is expected to sweep through the northern and central region in next couple of days.

 Contrary to the original plan, the State-owned Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) expects to list its shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HoSE) around April 10-12, Chairman Mr. Bui Ngoc Bao told Reuters.

 In a proposal submitted to the Da Nang Department of Information and Communications, the local Traffic Safety Committee wrote that the unauthorized operations of Uber and Grab could worsen traffic in the city.