VietNamNet Bridge - Now that most of the best-known vegetable oil brands are sold in Vietnam, market performance is expected to be even better in 2017.

 James Joseph Kendall, an American English teacher at an elementary school in Hanoi, became famous by chance after he retrieved trash from a polluted ditch in Hanoi, in May 2015.

 An ASEM conference will take place in Central Hue City on March 30-31 to discuss innovative education and human resource building for sustainable development.

 Nguyen Van Anh, Founder and Director of the Center for Research and Application of Sciences in Gender-Family-Women and Adolescents, has been selected by Forbes Magazine as one of Vietnam’s 50 most influential women.

 The question of how to raise assorted investment sources in Vietnam for national economic development has dominated the agenda of many economic forums.

 Hanoi Supermarket Association chair Vu Vinh Phu told stakeholders at a recent business conference that Vietnamese consumers have lost confidence in home grown fresh fruit and vegetables.

 Market observers see a positive outlook in the long term for Vietnamese confectionery exports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A soaring number of methanol poisoning cases from bad-quality methanol-laced alcohol have substantially harmed the reputation of traditional alcohol-making villages, 

Viet Nam will submit dossiers asking UNESCO to recognise the Tay and Nung ethnic people’s Then Singing Practice as a world intangible cultural heritage before March 31, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese coach Nguyen Huu Thang yesterday affirmed his team would put in all efforts to win their first match at the 2019 Asian Cup’s last qualifier.

 The Government has told the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to put the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway into operation by the first quarter of 2018. 

Quang Binh has disbursed $87.8 million, mostly sourced from the central budget, to support fishermen in 60 out of the 62 communes affected by the marine environmental incident last year.

 Ho Chi Minh City and Laos’ Vientiane capital city need to flesh out measures to boost their relations in trade, investment, culture and tourism, said Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Dinh La Thang.

 Senior Lieutenant General Luong Cuong, Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) received a delegation from the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces led by Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Leopoldo Cintra Frias.

 Representatives from ASEAN member states’ embassies in Argentina hailed Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Dinh Thao for his efforts to foster intra-bloc links as well as relations between the group and Argentina.

 The Prime Minister has asked for higher vigilance on the spread of A/H7N9 avian flu, which is reportedly breaking out in neighbouring China.

 The fifth International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics (Analytica Vietnam 2017) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from March 29-31.

 Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan has highlighted that Vietnam always welcomes and creates all favourable conditions for Indian firms to join programmes and projects on information technology in Vietnam.

 A painting exhibition, the Meet of March, will feature 50 paintings by 10 local artists in celebration of the 42nd anniversary of central Da Nang city’s Liberation Day (March 29).

 Rehann Croquevielle  is one of the most renowned portrait photographers worldwide. Leaving behind his hectic life in France, the photographer has chosen Vietnam as his second home over the past 10 years.