Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov gave positive comments on the strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam during an interview recently granted to Vietnam News Agency. 

 The US National Basketball Association (NBA)’s global basketball development programme for boys and girls (Jr NBA) has returned to Vietnam for the fifth consecutive year.

 Vietnam’s first patient undergoing a lung transplant with the organ donated by a brain-dead person is now in stable health 16 days after the operation, doctors said.

 Around 2,300 domestic and foreign runners took part in the second Dalat Ultra Trail International Marathon which officially opened in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong on March 16.

 Teachers are increasingly under attack across Viet Nam, requiring administrative and financial solutions from policymakers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities are finding it difficult to prevent owners of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) from fleeing the country, leaving unpaid salaries and debts. 

Do Ngoc Diep, specialist at the Green Building Project of the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, looks at Vietnam’s chances of realising its dream of becoming “a green spot” in the region.

Lam Dong Province’s most famous tourism destination by far is Da Lat City, known the world over since its days as a French colonial summer resort. But located 110km to the south of Da Lat is the town of Bao Loc,

For nearly 30 years, researchers at the Faculty of Tissue, Embryo and Genetics under Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University have been making use of amniotic membrane, which is commonly treated as medical waste and discarded. 

Former Politburo member and former Prime Minister Phan Van Khai passed away at 1:30 on March 17 at Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City, aged 85, according to the Board of health care services for senior officials.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been advised to attract more Chinese tourists from first-class cities who travel regularly, book tours via online channels, and spend big money on trips. 

 As global brands are scaling up efforts to promote online sales and avail themselves of traditional retail outlets, to garner similar benefits, trade centres need to be flexible to keep up with customers’ fast changing appetite.

 Dao Ngoc Nghiem, vice chairman of the Hanoi Association for Urban Planning and Development, speaks to the newspaper Urban Economy about the high demand for more social housing projects in the city

 Waterway buses have proved to be successful to tourists but have yet to attract regular commuters after three months due to low capacity.

 Vu Anh Minh, chairman of the Viet Nam Railways Corporation speaks to the Viet Nam Economic Times about how to attract private investment into the national railway sector.

The State Bank of Vietnam has recently ordered commercial banks to lower the percentage of short-term capital used for mid- to long-term loans from 50 per cent in 2017 to 45 per cent in 2018 and 40 per cent in 2019. 

 Vietnam expects to have a total of 54.2 million people in the workforce in the first quarter of 2018, up 150,000 from last year’s final quarter, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

 The total assets of the Vietnamese banking system surpassed 10 quadrillion VND (440 billion USD) in late 2017, according to the State Bank of Vietnam. 

 Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet and the Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) of the Australian state of Queensland signed a cooperation agreement in Sydney on March 16 to open a direct route connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Brisbane.

 Indonesia has lobbied countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to carry out maritime patrols in the East Sea to strengthen security.