An anniversary to commemorate 64 Vietnamese soldiers who died defending Gac Ma (Johnson South Reef ) was held in the central city of Da Nang on March 13.

 HCM City’s metro lines are facing various issues with procedures, disbursement, and cost overrun.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Song Lam Nghe An will rest most of their best players when they meet Persija Jakarta in the second-leg Group H match of the Asian Football Confederation Cup today.

 The Government has set itself a target of collecting 80 percent of tax payments in cities through banks and enabling treasuries in all provinces and cities to have cashless payment systems by 2020.

 The trend of foreign financial institutions withdrawing capital from their Vietnamese joint ventures has raised questions about the country’s state of financial stability, but experts claim the situation is no cause for alarm.

 Viet Nam Mobile Telecom Services Corporation (MobiFone) and shareholders of multimedia company Audio Visual Global (AVG) on Monday decided to cancel the share transfer agreement between the two companies.

 Ly Hoang Nam trounced Sharda Rishabh of India 6-0, 6-1 in the first round match of the India F3 Futures’ singles category yesterday in Chandigarh City.

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

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Thi Hong, 81, was hospitalised on March 2 and died two days later.

 The Greater Mekong, including Vietnam, is expected to have a colossal US$66 billion poured in to strengthen regional economic co-operation in the next five years, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official on Tuesday.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived at Fairbairn military airport in Canberra in the afternoon of March 14, beginning an official visit to Australia at the invitation of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  HCM City’s People’s Committee targets having more than 80 per cent of local residents and organisations satisfied with public administrative services by 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Popular film director Bui Thac Chuyen and producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc will introduce one of their movie projects, calling for partners at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

 Visiting the tourism city of Da Lat, sightseers will have a chance to experience a very beautiful strawberry garden which is located on a hill in Dang Len Street, bordering the city and Lac Duong district.

 The draft amendments to the Competition Law and Law on Higher Education were discussed at the ongoing 22nd sitting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly yesterday.

 Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) in Ho Chi Minh City introduced its pioneering model of building a smart urban area using modern technology on March 13. 

More than 3,500 out of over 1 million blind people in Vietnam have used computer proficiently for the work and daily life, President of the Vietnam Blind Association Pham Viet Thu noted.

VietNamNet Bridge - Peer to Peer, or P2P lending, became more popular over the last year with the establishment of many online lending companies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Taiwanese artist Nana Chen’s first solo exhibition entitled Discarded is open at Heritage Space, featuring a series of large size photos in an ongoing project by the artist in HCM City.

Carlyle A. Thayer - Emeritus Professor, the University of New South Wales - has an exclusive article on the Vietnam-Australia ties on the occasion of the official visit to Australia by PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.