Although the VN-Index didn’t hit the short-term target of 1,130 points last week as expected, it has nevertheless maintained its upward trend and is forecast to open next week’s session with positive status.

 Commercial banks have adjusted their service fees to individual customers since the beginning of the year in order to focus on the retail segment.

The Vietnamese Buddhist Association in Japan held a requiem at Nisshikutsu pagoda in Tokyo on March 4 to pray for the soldiers who died to defend Gac Ma (Johnson South) Reef in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago three decades ago.

 Vietnam may export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2018, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan.

Bangladesh’s daily English-language newspaper The Daily Star has carried several articles emphasising the importance of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang’s three-day State visit to Bangladesh from March 4.

 Vietnam’s retail market is expected to grow fast to meet strong increases in shopping and recreational demand from 2018 – 2021, said Pham Thai Binh, Head of Retail Leasing Savills Ho Chi Minh City.

 The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri has decided to build a hydropower plant worth nearly 600 billion VND ($26.4 million) in Huong Hoa district.

Tens of thousands of young people nationwide say goodbye to their families and friends to join the military service in ceremonies held across the country from March 3 to 7.

 Korean Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Hyun-mi will visit Vietnam and Singapore next week to support local companies' bids for infrastructure projects and expand economic ties with the Southeast Asian nations.

 A high-ranking delegation of the Vietnam People’s Army, led by Sen. Lieut. Gen Phan Van Giang, Chief of the VPA’s General Staff and Deputy Minister of National Defence, is paying an official visit to Malaysia from March 4-6.

VietNamNet Bridge - Even with face masks or beards, artificial intelligence (AI) can recognize faces at a high accuracy rate of 86 percent.

Having Vietnam universities listed among the world’s top 200 universities by 2020 was a target set by the government in Decisions 121 and 37 in 2007 when it adjusted the 2006-2020 programming for the university and junior college network.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bad luck still clings to Parkson as the Malaysian group continues to report losses and unsatisfactory business results in Vietnam.

Up to 70 percent of total goods are transported by land in Vietnam, leading to transportation costs that have increased by 10-60 percent.

Vietnam wants to promote its investment in Bangladesh, especially in the fields of telecommunications, information technology, agriculture, food processing, said President Tran Dai Quang.

Vietnam-Bangladesh relations have witnessed great strides in all fields, from politics, trade, economy to culture and people-to-people exchanges, since the establishment of diplomatic ties 45 years ago (February 17, 1973).

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has granted an interview to VNA on Bangladesh-Vietnam relations and President Tran Dai Quang’s State visit to Bangladesh from March 4-6. The following is the full text of the interview.

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse arrived in Dhaka capital city of Bangladesh on March 4, starting a three-day State visit to Bangladesh.

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception for Bangladeshi Minister of Foreign Affairs Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali right after his arrival in the capital city of Dhaka on March 4 afternoon.

Three hospitals in Vietnam are using robots in endoscopic surgeries. Two of them – Binh Dan and Cho Ray in HCMC – are performing such surgeries on adult patients.