The Vietnam Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the US Embassy in Vietnam have provided updated statistics at aqicn.org, a worldwide air quality monitoring data coverage website.

 Vietnam has been experiencing serious drought and saline intrusion over the past decade.

VietNamNet Bridge – A more transparent legal framework as well as additional incentive policies are needed to attract investment in wastewater treatment projects in HCM City, especially under the mode of Private-Public Partnerships,

 A bamboo or "green steel" structure designed by noted Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is being displayed at an annual architectural pavilion series in Queensland's Brisbane, Australia.

 Nguyen Vu Truong Son was yesterday appointed the general director of the Viet Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).

 The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) denied the information that Cambodia had surpassed Viet Nam in garment and textile exports to the European Union (EU).

 Right after the conclusion of the Lunar New Year holiday, members of the Vietnam taekwondo team got down to working on the target of booking one or two tickets to Rio this summer.

 The 2016 Ban Flower Festival will be held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 13-15 with the engagement of neigbours from northern Laos and northeastern Thailand.

 Many college and university graduates in Vietnam have had to put their dreams aside to earn a living. A number of them even opt to work as domestic helpers for better income after failing to find a stable and good job.

 Experts and policy managers from East Asian countries gathered in Ha Noi for a two-day seminar Thursday and Friday to discuss how to build environmentally sustainable cities.

 Da Nang will install security camera systems at 3,296 sites in the event of emergency situations on streets and outside of living quarters, trading centres, industrial parks, markets, restaurants, hotels, bars and offices.

 The music of composer Trinh Cong Son is to be depicted in the "language" of fine art at an exhibition entitled Khoi Troi Menh Mong (Immense Sky Smoke), which introduces 40 paintings inspired by his music.

 Over 80 works by Vietnamese and Russian painters are on display at the joint fine arts exhibition called “Handshake Again” at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum through to March 12.

 Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has won a silver medal at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Orlando, Floria in the US.

 A festival highlighting Vietnamese traditional “ao dai” dresses was held in Hanoi on March 4.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cameras installed in classes are said to help oversee the behavior of students and teachers better and reduce school violence, but the presence of such a "supervisor" is threatens the privacy of those who are supervised.

 Three domestic telecom companies are reported to have registered high growth and revenue in February this year.

 More than 140 investors from local and overseas markets will participate in the initial public offering (IPO) of the Vietnam Meat Industries Limited Company (Vissan) on March 7.

 The agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors are forecasted to face a shortage of 3.2 million trained workers in 2020, labour experts said.

 Mainstream hydropower projects on the Mekong River caused a loss of 5.2 trillion ($231 million) in seafood and agriculture output to the Mekong Delta, said Nguyen Ngoc Tran, former Deputy Chairman of National Committee of Science and Technology.