Another patient has died of the A/H5N1 virus on March 17 in Ho Chi Minh City, confirmed a city health official.

German environmental experts and representatives of local nature reserves and environment organisations gathered in the southern province of Soc Trang on March 17 for a three-day workshop to find out the best ways of managing natural resources in Vietnam.

Seoul will cooperate with Hanoi to upgrade the polluted To Lich River, ensuring the Vietnamese capital city’s urban scenery for its 1,000th founding anniversary.

The Supreme People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City in its appeal trial on March 17 ordered Huynh Ngoc Si, former director of the ODA-funded East-West Avenue project, to serve six years in prison.

The economics of low-carbon development and its potential to mitigate climate change in Vietnam were under discussion at a consultation workshop in Hanoi on March 17.

Girls in an ethnic minority village only 110km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City are still getting married and having children at as early as the age of 13.

Vietnam and Russia have agreed to set up a task group to prepare for the establishment of a joint high-level university on the basis of the former’s Le Quy Don Technical University.

The first capital-rural youth festival will be held in Hanoi on March 20-21 in commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

Nearly 40 enterprises have registered to create 2,500 jobs in a Ho Chi Minh City labour exchange, scheduled to hold on March 20-21.

The first national ethnic minority congress will be held at the My Dinh National Convention Centre on May 12 and 13 with the participation of 1,700 representatives from across the countries.

Despite having lived in Russia for 20 years, Mrs. Doan Kim Hoa always thinks of her home country and she has made great efforts to promote Vietnam’s images abroad.

Eran Katz, an Israeli who holds the Guinness Book of World Record title in feats of memory, donated VND10 million for Starfish Fund, established by Miss Vietnam Ngo Phuong Lan, during his speech before an audience in Hanoi on March 16.  

Vietnamese and US veterans held talks in Hanoi on March 16 as part of activities to promote mutual understanding and reconciliation between the two nations after the war.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health announced a suspected case of bird flu virus on March 16.

An incense offering ceremony was held at the Son My reliquary in Tinh Khe commune, Son Tinh district, Quang Ngai province, on March 16 in memory of the 504 innocent Vietnamese who were slaughtered by US soldiers 42 years ago.

The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines (VNA), has announced its plans to open two routes from Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi to Shanghai, China on March 28 and 29, respectively.

His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa 12th is paying an official visit to Vietnam from March 14- April 4 at the invitation of the Hanoi Buddhist Shangha.  

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Ministry's Environment and Preventative Medicine Department has warned that the A/H1N1 epidemic on humans is at high risk of recurence due to the public’s poor awareness of the fatal disease.

The central province of Binh Dinh and the Champassak province of Laos will speed up cooperation in tourism and trade between the two localities.

Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has called on the community to join hands to protect wild tigers as the tiger population has been reducing sharply.

A requiem was held in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on March 15 to pray for the souls of combatants and residents who laid down their lives in the region during the war.

The national tourism development strategy for 2020 spotlights gender equality as a key element for a green and sustainable industry.

The Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee has coordinated with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development in a project to combat domestic violence.

The Vietnam – Japan Consultancy Joint Venture (VJC) has completed a report on investment cost for construction of a Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City high-speed railway.

Surgeons at Military Hospital No.103 are preparing to take Vietnam’s first heart transplant.

In the first quarter this year, a fund established to help central provinces minimise the negative impact of natural disasters, has received donations and pledges of support reaching VND14 billion.

An outbreak of chickenpox is hitting HCM City and Hanoi as the number of infected children admitted to hospitals in big cities has increased significantly.

An art festival for children with disabilities was held in HCM City on March 14 by the municipal Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association and the Volunteers Group Coupii Vietnam, a community-based group with about 80 members established in 2008.

Many Vietnamese women have chosen to work overseas in the hope of changing their families’ economic status. However, quite a few of them have faced unexpected cracks in their family lives as a result of this.

Diverse activities have been launched in response to Youth Month in March, such as building charitable houses, providing free healthcare services and organising vocational training courses for young people.