The international cycling championship Vietnam Victory Challenge 2016 wrapped up in Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 13.

 Chinese chess grandmaster Wang Hao (elo 2,707) has become the champion of the sixth HDBank Cup International Open Chess Championship 2016 held in Ho Chi Minh City from March 8-13.

VietNamNet Bridge - The high rate of unemployed university graduates has been blamed on inadequate training. 

 The 12th Party Central Committee’s second plenum from March 10-12 accomplished the items on its agenda and made decisions on important issues, the Committee said in its announcement on the plenum.

  President Truong Tan Sang arrived at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran capital city on late March 13, beginning a State visit to Iran.

 VietNamNet Bridge - China understands that the United States, Japan and other major powers know about its plots in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts said that Japanese FDI (foreign direct investment) had decreased in industrial sector but was showing growth in the service sector.

Nearly 42 years ago, a woman gave birth to her child at an antenatal clinic in Hanoi. She returned home a day later with a child that she thought not her baby. However, the woman has raised the baby with her love for 42 years.

 Small retail stores for mobile phones are being excluded from the market as they must now compete with big retail chains and many have to close down.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been warned that it would be outstripped by Thailand and Cambodia in rice exports if it cannot change the current production and export policies.

 Vietnam’s cocoa sector should aim its sights at the premium chocolate market, the director of the Internatioanl Cocoa Organisation’s (ICCO) economics and statistics division has urged.

 A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army is attending the 13th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Informal Meeting (ACDFIM-13) in Laos at the invitation of Lieutenant General Suvon Luongbunmi, Chief of the General Staff of the Lao People’s Army.

VietNamNet Bridge - The forecast that Vietnam would become a leading flower export center in Asia mentioned in a Japanese journal has raised a debate about the potential of Vietnam in exporting fresh flower.

  Serious flaw discovered in OpenSSL that affects the security of more than 11 million websites around the world.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is one of the markets with the most potential in Southeast Asia and the J.League clubs want to look for the brightest talents.

VietNamNet Bridge - A lot of Vietnamese garment companies which do not want to outsource for foreign partners have decided to find new ways to develop. 

 Prolonged dry weather has put many parts of Vietnam at a risk of forest fires, the Forest Protection Department warned.

 With the spread of mobile technology, it has become easier for small businesses to maintain regular contact with their customers online and many Vietnamese vendors report new social promos are popping up everywhere.

 Vietnam and Mozambique have agreed to work on concrete measures to boost all-round ties in the time ahead during talks between visiting Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Jacinto Nyusi.

 Young masters Nguyen Anh Khoi and Tran Tuan Minh took big step in the ranking of the HDBank Cup International Open Chess 2016 Masters Tournament.