Senior defence officials of Vietnam and Myanmar have agreed to continue bolstering defence cooperation between the two countries and making it deeper, more effective and practical in the future.

On a visit to Hanoi on March 6, Chair of the National Assembly of Laos Pany Yathotou met with her counterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan to discuss inter-parliamentary cooperation.

 The great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner's Requiem will perform for the first time at Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on March 9.

 Nguyen Thi Thach Thao, Tran Thi Lan Huong and Mai Thanh Duy won the champion in the category of Individual of the 2017 Charming Ao Dai Contest in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5.

Ho Chi Minh City urgently builds more public toilets as per a directive of the municipal People’s Committee.

HCMC Real Estate Association forecast that the needs of affordable housing, low cost commercial, social housing and low cost apartments for lease will approximate one million apartments in the next decade.

 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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Proposed legislation to eliminate some favourable conditions for female workers has met with resistance by both workers and employer.  

 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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is fairly common that women are forbidden from going near shrimp farms in several southern provinces because they are believed to bring bad luck.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last year, H, a HCM City resident, transferred a total of VND10 billion (US$437,800) to a man she’d met on a social media website.

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