An exhibition on the history of the world’s coffee industry opened on March 9 at the Coffee World Museum in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

 The first coffee book street was opened in Buon Ma Thuot city of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 9.

 The increase of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first two months of the year has contributed to a better performance of listed industrial park developers.

 Vietnam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

 A Coffee Trade Fair kicked off in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 9, as part of the ongoing 7th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival.

A campaign named “Day to clean plastic waste 2019” was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 9 to raise public awareness and call for practical actions to protect the environment. 

 Localities throughout the country have quickly taken measures to prevent the spread of African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks.

 The border guard force of the central province of Quang Tri has broken a trans-national drug trafficking ring, seizing two Lao suspects, 118,000 meth pills and one gun.

Vietnam will take part in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U16 Women’s Championship Finals for the first time after finishing second in the group stages in Vientiane, Laos, on March 8.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam has just released an updated draft on encouraging development of solar power projects in Vietnam. 

The Vietnamese fast-moving consumer goods market is lagging in major cities, but growth remains robust in rural areas, where the market seems to have regained its momentum to see 5-6% year-on-year growth in 2019.

The gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in the first quarter of this year is lower than the low growth scenario of 6.76%, Sai Gon Gai Phong news site reported, citing the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 There are insufficient grounds for the Hanoi Superior People’s Court to reduce the prison sentence of Phan Sao Nam, former chairman of local online game firm VTC Online.

 The annual preferential interest rate at designated credit institutions for social housing loans has risen to 5%, up 0.2 percentage point year-on-year, according to a decision by the Prime Minister.

 Local seafood importers are facing trouble with production due to many tuna containers being held at ports, as a result of a regulation issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the quarantine of animals and seafood.

 The Central Hospital in Thua Thien – Hue yesterday announced its physicians had saved the life of a French man suffering from chest pain due to myocardial infarction thanks to the inter-hospital red alert.

The corridor would help reduce the time for goods delivery from Vietnam and ASEAN countries to Europe, and also a good alternative to maritime transport. 

 US lawyer Nancy Hollander also shared memory about the first people-to-people diplomacy meeting between Vietnam and the US in 1965.

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 Romania and France have pledged to promote the early signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) between the European Union (EU) and Vietnam.