VOV.VN - A fire sparked on the 18th floor of an apartment building in Nguyen Co Thach Str., Hanoi at 9:30pm on March 27, making residents fleeing in panic. 

Pearson, the creator of the Pearson Test of English Academic, has opened two new test centres in Vietnam in co-operation with EMG Education, providing Vietnamese students with more choice and access to the English language tests required to study internationally or pursue further studies within Vietnam.

Nguyen Duc Loi, member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), was elected President of the Vietnam-Spain Friendship Association (VSFA) for the 2018-2023 term, at its third national congress in Hanoi on March 27.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man has asked the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) to support Vietnam in searching for and repatriating remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Laos during the wartime. 

Police from the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have arrested three people trafficking 135 bricks of heroin and 500,000 synthetic drug pills.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 27 handed over a decision on the recognition of Binh Minh town in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long as a new-style rural area.

The People’s Committee of Can Tho city, the Novaland Group, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MBBank) have teamed up to implement a project on developing the Mekong Delta’s tourism adapted to climate change.

A regional training workshop on public weather services opened in Hanoi on March 27 for countries participating in the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP).

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health is planning to provide training on how to help local residents quit smoking for staff at ward- and commune-level People’s Committees.

VOV.VN - The remains of seventeen fallen Vietnamese soldiers have been recovered from caves in the district of Pack U, Luang Prabang province in Laos during the first three months of the year.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria and Mali Pham Quoc Tru met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Mali as part of his visit to the African country from March 23-28.

The Ministry of Justice must continue to review business conditions and eliminate overlapping and unnecessary regulations, said Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tien Dung during a meeting between the Government’s working group and the ministry on March 26.

The Ministry of Public Security has set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to supervise foreigners’ compliance with the regulations on their entry, exit, and residence in central Da Nang city.

Spokesperson of Ho Chi Minh City police Nguyen Si Quang on March 26 said criminal proceedings started against a case of serious blaze which burned the local apartment complex Carina Plaza on March 23.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed to transfer the technology required to create human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines to Thai producers. 

Thailand's Ministry of Science and Technology has organized “ASEAN Next 2018” to encourage partnerships in the science, technology and innovations developed between ASEAN and its trade partners. 

Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested two employees of a major bank on March 26 and seized boxes of documents connected to an alleged fraud case that costs one customer VND245 billion (US$10.8 million).

Authorities of the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on March 26 approved a Luxembourg-funded climate change adaptation project in the locality. 

As many as 30 foreign chefs from the World Association of Chefs’ Societies will join forces to organize a fund-raising event in Vietnam for the first time, in which Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh will serve as an ambassador for the charity event.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria and Mali Pham Quoc Tru met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in Mali as part of his visit to the African country from March 23-28.

The Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam and Supreme Court of Hungary (Curia) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation for 2018-2022 in Budapest on March 26.

Canadian-backed Manulife Vietnam has just become the best place to work in the insurance industry in 2017 and ranked 22nd across industries, according to the survey by Anphabe and Intage group, which is based on a number of prominent indicators that are highly valued by employees.

T&T Group and Hitachi Zosen Corporation have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to develop waste-to-power electricity plants in Hanoi.

The Xin Man (Vietnam)-Dulong (China) border gate pair was officially opened at a ceremony on March 26.

Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corporation and Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East (NNT East) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on March 26 to build a smart city in the southern province of Binh Duong. 

Chairman of the People’s Committee of central Da Nang city Huynh Duc Tho chaired an open dialogue with more than 300 local young people on March 26 to learn first-hand their ideas to develop a smart city.

Over 1,400 students of Binh Dong secondary school in Ho Chi Minh City have just joined drills of emergency evacuation in case of natural disasters such as tsunami and flood, according to the United Nations Development Programme.

The Asia-Europe Meeting Day (ASEM Day) 2018 was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 26, highlighting the role played by youths in coping with global challenges.

A requiem to commemorate Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives to defend national sovereignty was held in Phat Tich Lao pagoda in Vientiane capital, Laos on March 25.

There has been not any information about Vietnamese victims in a fire ravaging a shopping mall in the Russian city of Kemerovo on March 25, said the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia.