VietNamNet Bridge - Telecommunication experts said they can see signs of a new race triggered by telcos to add new subscribers.

 Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) is on a shopping spree hoping to wrap up its takeover of the Vietnam plastics industry by 2020, said speakers at a recent seminar in Saigon.

 Vietnam will surely become the biggest ASEAN trade partner of China in 2016, Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam Hu Suo Jin said on March 8.

 Vietnam Airlines’ spokesperson Le Hoang Dung said the national flag carrier was planning to privatise VASCO - Vietnam Air Services Company.

 The Binh Duong International Women's Cycling Tournament – Biwase Cup 2016 – kicked off in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 8.

 Vietnam hopes the Thai Ministry of Defence and War Veterans Association will share information relating to Vietnamese fallen soldiers and those missing in action during wartime in areas along the Cambodia-Thailand border.

 President Truong Tan Sang left Hanoi on March 8, heading to Tanzania, Mozambique and Iran for State visits from March 9-15.

  International integration is a consistent focus in Vietnam’s foreign policy at present and in the coming years, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son asserted.

 Vietnam and Azerbaijan have officially established cooperation in legal and judicial affairs.

 Lumitel, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s military-run telecommunications group Viettel in Burundi, has become the first 4G LTE service provider in the African country. 

The Finnish Information Security Cluster, the Vietnamese Security Network, the Vietnam Information Security Association and the CMC Corporation on March 7 signed an MoU on cooperation in information technology, especially in information security.

 Jr. NBA, the NBA’s global youth development programme that promotes basketball participation and an active lifestyle among children, has returned to Vietnam for the third consecutive year beginning March 5.

 Vietnam suffered yet another heavy defeat on March 7 at the AFC Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016 qualifier, losing 6-1 to hosts Japan in a game where the only prize was honour.

VietNamNet Bridge – Since 2010, the FDI from China has skyrocketed, from a few hundred million US dollars to several billion US dollars.

 Mekong Delta farmers are struggling with the worst water shortages and saltwater intrusion in nearly a century.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Since mid-June 2014, 15,00 drivers have joined, a figure which non-technology-based taxi firms need nearly 10 years to reach.

Hanoi’s transport infrastructure is alarming since a number of recently-launched works have become overloaded, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai raised his concern at a meeting with the Transport Ministry in Hanoi on March 7.

 Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire co-chaired the fifth Vietnam-UK Strategic Dialogue in London on March 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Stores, parking lots, pubs, cafes, and street vendors are occupying entire sidewalks and even roads in HCM City.

 Politburo member Vo Van Thuong hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 7 for Tsutomu Takebe, special advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance, who affirmed his continued contributions to developing the two countries’ relations.