As many as 96,478 foreigners requested e-visas on Vietnam’s immigration portal at https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn in the Feb-December period of 2017, according to the Administration of Immigration under the Ministry of Public Security. 

The central province of Quang Binh on March 16 launched a plan on inspecting fisheries activities to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as guided by the European Commission (EC). 

The Vietnam Education Publishing House convened a workshop in Hanoi on March 16, seeking to gather international experience in compiling textbooks promoting learners’ ability. 

As many as 504 victims of a bloody massacre by US troops 50 years ago were commemorated at a ceremony held at the Son My relic site in Tinh Khe commune, Quang Ngai city, the central province of Quang Ngai, on March 16.

VOV.VN - Border guards at Cau Treo International Border Gate and police in the central province of Ha Tinh have arrested a 32-year old man who was caught smuggling more than 3,000 methamphetamine pills.

VOV.VN - The 2018 National Press Festival themed " Vietnamese press accompanies the nation in renewal" opened in Hanoi on March 16 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council (ninth tenure)  adopted resolutions to implement the National Assembly’s Resolution 54 on piloting special mechanisms and policies for the city’s development at the closing session of its seventh meeting on March 16.

Themed "Water partnership for sustainable development", the 6th Vietnam International Water Week was a good opportunity for enterprises to show their commitment to protecting water resource and the environment toward sustainable development in water resource sector.

The Health Department of Hanoi is working with the municipal People’s Committee to expand colorectal cancer screenings to many localities of the city.

 The southern province of Tay Ninh is asking for relevant authority’s approval to merge Chang Riec cultural-historic forest with Lo Go-Xa Mat national park.

 Vietnam aims to keep the rate of new HIV/AIDS infections below 0.3%, while reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS on socio-economic development. 

Central and local television stations must stop analogue broadcasting before December 31, 2018 under an amendment to Decision No.2451/QD-TTg on transmission, terrestrial TV broadcasting digitalisation by 2020, recently decided by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is cooperating with its member states in the Asia-Pacific region as well as relevant social organisations to improve the agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change and reduce its reception of impacts of the weather phenomenon.

Ministries, sectors and localities should improve the efficiency of communications campaigns to encourage people to buy more locally-made products as a way to show their support for the domestic manufacturing industry.

A requiem in commemoration of 64 soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend Vietnam’s Gac Ma (Johnson South) Reef 30 years ago took place in the Czech Republic on March 14.

A 380m ironwood-floored pedestrian road is under construction along the southern bank of Huong River, one of the most well-known destinations in Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

A house of worship dedicated to 504 civilians killed in Son My massacre was inaugurated in the central province of Quang Ngai on March 15.

Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 15 for a delegation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who are on a working visit to Vietnam.

The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the Embassy of Australia co-hosted the second Ocean Dialogue in Hanoi on March 15, focusing on fishery cooperation in the East Sea.

Among 12-13 storms forecast to enter East Sea, up to six are forecast to directly affect the mainland in 2018, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecastings.

Experts from the Japan Productivity Centre and the Vietnam National Productivity Institute have over the past two years supported 12 companies in the north to improve their employee satisfaction and workplace environment to increase productivity.

Vietjet is the official air transportation sponsor of Miss Vietnam 2018, accompanying the event for the fourth consecutive year.

On March 26, 2018, 10 outstanding young persons and 10 promising  young persons of Vietnam in 2017 will be honoured at a ceremony on the occasion of the founding anniversary of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

VOV.VN - The East Asia and Pacific region has seven of the top ten performing education systems in the world, with schools in China and Vietnam showing significant progress, according to a new World Bank report released on March 15.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, travel demand at Tan Son Nhat International Airport will reach an estimated 83 million passengers by 2025, much higher than forecasted by the consultant ADPi from France.

Young people from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand are invited to take part in the “Start-up Francophone 2018” competition, which is open from March to September.

A training workshop to improve the capacity of anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies in the use of techniques and tactics to investigate corruption cases was launched in Hanoi on March 14.

The People’s Court of Hanoi on March 14 sentenced three Chinese men, all from Jiangxi province, to up to 42 months in prison for using fake bank cards to steal cash from ATMs.

The World Bank will fund a project to help the central province of Quang Tri make its reservoirs safer.

A ceremony took place on March 14 at the Headquarter of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland to celebrate the International Francophone Day (March 20).