VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Heat have jumped to fourth place in the ASEAN Basketball League after their 78-74 win over Alab Pilipinas on their home turf at HCM City’s Canadian Interntaional School Arena yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Futsal Championships this year, which will kick off from March 17 to June 24, will see two recruits Sanest Tourist Khanh Hoa and Kim Toan Da Nang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artisans in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) are asking for financial support from local authorities to preserve ethnic Jarai epics, oral folk literature that is now known by the elderly only.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A couple and their two children aged nine and three were killed yesterday after their house in Binh Duong Province’s Thu Dau Mot City caught fire early in the morning.

Around 15km from the centre of the central highlands Da Lat City, the two-ha field of hydrangea flowers in full bloom look like a very wonderful picture appealing to numerous visitors.

 Vietnam young tennis player Ly Hoang Nam will vie in the China F3 Futures tournament set to take place on February 27-March 5 in Anning, Yunnan Province.

 Universities nationwide are going to hold the preliminary rounds of Robocon Vietnam 2017 on March 1-20 to shortlist 6 teams for the qualifying round scheduled to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on April 1-5.

“Keep Hanoi Clean”, a volunteer group led by James Joseph Kendall, has been clearing household wastes and planting trees across the capital city.

 A workshop was held in Hanoi on February 26 to launch a Vietnam encyclopedia.

 Contributions from committees under the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to APEC Year 2017 will help fulfill the Bogor Goals by 2020, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has said. 

VietNamNet Bridge - So many big seafood companies have met with misfortune that some analysts have predicted the decline of the industry.

Vietnam and Belarus have enjoyed sound relations in the past two decades, said President of the Vietnam-Belarus Friendship Association (VBFA) Nguyen Thai Lai.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung recently visited the German state of Bremen to promote economic links between the two countries.

 The year of 2016 witnessed impressive growth of the Vietnamese tourism industry, with a strong increase in both domestic and international tourists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Low-quality and fake cosmetics have continued to flood the Vietnamese market, making it hard for consumers to determine the quality of products despite agencies’ efforts to tackle the issue.

 Japan's SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is close to making an investment in U.S. office-sharing startup WeWork expected to be worth over $3 billion, CNBC reported on Monday, as it expands its reach beyond tech and telecoms.

Can Gio, located roughly 50km from Saigon, is one of the favourite weekend holiday spots for Saigoneers.

EU environment ministers are bracing for a tough debate to find a compromise on reforms to the carbon market, EU sources said, with nations split over how to balance climate ambitions with protection for energy-intensive industry.

Hundreds of Oriental medicine stores in HCM City’s District 5 provide Oriental medicine and herbal materials to traditional medicine clinics and consumers in the southern region.

 Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Van An ranked 30th out of 43 athletes in the qualifying round of the men’s slalom of Alpine Skiing, the last sport for Viet Nam at the Asian Winter Games which closed in Sapporo, Japan yesterday.

 Hanoi will be the site of yet another incredible concert by the Republic of Korea (ROK) girlband SNSD this coming April 1, according to an announcement by band member Sooyoung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By 2020 HCM City’s public hospitals will no longer be overloaded and people will have access to high-quality healthcare, city officials promise.

HCM City authorities have decided to develop the Public Transport Management and Operation Centre into an agency that will use integrated solutions in public transport management instead of establishing a completely new agency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People’s Committee has approved a pilot programme that would utilise software and automation technology to manage public parking zones in the city.

 Clay cracker, a traditional game that involves hurling clay crackers to produce noise, originated in Vietnam’s northern delta region.