VOV.VN - Vu Dai (or Dai Hoang) village in Hoa Hau commune, Ha Nam province, about 100km from Hanoi, is famous for its braised fish, king bananas, and textiles. It is the home of martyr and writer of Vietnamese realism Nam Cao.  

A new ground-based observatory is slated for a test run in June in northern Vietnam, ushering in an important stage in the country’s astronomical research.

Six years after announcing it was leaving Vietnam and then unsuccessfully tried to sell all the assets and facilities at its Ho Chi Minh City-based solar equipment manufacturing project, First Solar last year suddenly declared it planned to return to the country and the city. 

Spouses of leaders of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), who are in Hanoi for the sixth GMS Summit (GMS-6), visited the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in downtown Hanoi on March 31 to learn about the life and cultural heritage of Vietnamese women throughout history.

The construction of a green education ecosystem - the International Education City (IEC) invested by Nguyen Hoang Group (NHG), commenced in Quang Ngai city, the central province of Quang Ngai on March 31. 

 A meeting was held in Hanoi March 31 in response to International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action (April 4).

VOV.VN - A large fire broke out in Quang market, Thanh Liet ward, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi on March 31, causing panic among hundreds of local residents.

VOV.VN - The United Nations has assessed that Vietnam is one of the countries with impressive gender equality achievements.

VOV.VN - “Saigon – a space for creative young poets” is an event recently organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Writers’ Association to provide local young writers a venue to share their feelings, exchange experiences, and voice their aspirations. 

 The Franken Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Centre recently held a requiem at Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Germany’s Nürnberg city to commemorate 64 soldiers who laid down their lives to defend Gac Ma (Johnson South) Reef in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago on March 14, 1988.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Agency (PL) renewed their cooperation agreement in Havana on March 29.

 A seminar discussing the role of family medicine in improving the quality of medical treatment was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on March 29, with the participation over 300 domestic and foreign experts and doctors.

A seminar on connecting individuals and organisations, who provide education for the disabled in Vietnam, was co-organised in Hanoi on March 30 by the Ministry of Education and Training, and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam. 

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on March 30 announced the children-friendly city initiative for the 2017-2021 period to help Ho Chi Minh City build itself into a children-friendly city.

Science-technology is a breakthrough solution to green and high-value agriculture development, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

VOV.VN - The preliminary round of the National Radio Broadcasting Festival in Central and Central Highlands regions has opened in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seized from an unidentified Vietnamese entrepreneur in late 2016.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong and Sandra Oudkirk, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Energy Resources of the US co-chaired the first Vietnam-US Energy Security Dialogue in Hanoi on March 30.

The Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) will start the pilot run of its observatory and space centre in Hanoi’s Hoa Lac high-tech park in June, 2018.

VOV.VN - A great fire broke out at a wood storage warehouse in Le Thanh Tong Street, Hai An district, in the northern city of Haiphong on March 29 destroying it and 4 houses.

The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) in collaboration with the Procter & Gamble Vietnam held a ceremony to launch a programme “Clean drinking water for children” in Long Xuyen city, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on March 29 in response to World Water Day.

Officials from the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) have asked Vietnam in general and northern Tuyen Quang province to help Laos in collecting Lao artifacts and old documents during its revolutionary time.

The results of a pilot survey have shown the average patient satisfaction index in Vietnam reached 3.98/5, that is some 79.6% of their expectation.

The third Bua Liem Vang (Golden Hammer & Sickle) Press Awards will receive entries appeared in print or e-newspapers, or on radio or TV programmes between November 1, 2017 and October 31, 2018, the contest’s organising board announced at a press conference in Hanoi on March 29. 

US technological enterprises have proposed supporting Hanoi in building an emergency response centre, contributing to accelerating the city’s plan to turn it into a smart city. 

A Vietnamese fisherman has released a rare turtle back into the ocean after snaring it off the central coast of Ha Tinh Province despite being offered a large sum of money for the creature.

Vietnam has accomplished all necessary preparations for level-2 field hospital in South Sudan, Colonel Nguyen Nhu Canh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Peacekeeping Department, said at a press conference held in Hanoi on March 29.

Construction of Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai at an earlier date than initially planned will help reduce overcrowding in Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport, experts have said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to build a coastal road in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh.

Vietnam is pushing on ambitious plans to develop smart cities towards green and sustainable growth with the assistance of the Netherlands, heard a seminar jointly held by the Ministry of Construction and the Dutch Embassy in Vietnam in Hanoi on March 29.