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VietNamNet Bridge - Vietlott and traditional lotteries, casinos, and dog and horse races are causing social problems, some people contend, but experts believe they are a normal part of the market economy.

 Well-known K-pop band Block B will liven up Ho Chi Minh City in the Ho Chi Minh City-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2017 to be held on February 21, according to an official fanpage of the band in Vietnam.

 A concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will be held at the Vietnam National Academy of Music on February 18.

 The number of visitors to the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Dong Mo Tourism Area in Son Tay Town, Hanoi, reached 500,000 on December 26, 2016, marking an increase of 200% compared to last year.

 More hotels have got underway in Hanoi, indicating that the capital city is growing attractive to hotel investors.

 The Goethe-Institut is starting the New Lunar Year out with a musical performance by the German Ensemble Resonanz on the evening of February 13 at the Rec Room in Hanoi Creative City.

More than 50 serious pollution cases were discovered in 2016, including the mass fish deaths in four provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue in the central region.

VietNamNet Bridge - On January 10, 2017, for the first time in Vietnam’s physics history, an article about nuclear physics by Vietnamese authors was published in an international scientific journal.

The confrontation between Vuivui and Tiki, one of the most successful e-commerce firms in Vietnam, which is supported by VNG, is expected to be an interesting story in 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - In mid-January 2017, the Publishing & Printing Department of Vietnam asked publishing houses to stop releasing books about love stories, called ‘Truyen ngon tinh’ in Vietnamese. 

 More and more Japanese agribusinesses are entering Vietnam and other growth markets in Asia amid dim prospects at home, according to Nikkei Asian Review.

 There are 204 domestic social networks in operation in the fields of music, sport, science and technology, health, medical, lotteries, cinema, wedding services, and food.

 People who love flying kites from nearby provinces boasted their self-making kites of all shapes, sizes and colour as well as kite flying skills at a recent exchange in Thanh Oai district, Hanoi.

 Five more venues to facilitate lethal injections will be built in Vietnam in the coming time according to the Ministry of Public Security.

 Vietnam has been outperforming and it looks like it will continue to do so.

 Some segments did better than others in Vietnam’s real estate sector in 2016 but overall trends are positive.

 President Tran Dai Quang urged Vietnam and Uzbekistan to fully tap their cooperation potential in various fields while receiving Uzbekistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and  Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources Mirzaev Zoyir.

 A Chinese bank branch established in the so-called Sansa city on Phu Lam island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago is illegal, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh.

 A dialogue meeting between Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Vietnamese enterprises is scheduled to take place for the second time in late March as the nation is seeking to build a facilitative and action-oriented government.

 People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday approved the project to organize a bazaar  and  musical quarterin the city downtown.

 Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday asked the Department of Planning and Investment to create favorable environment for multinational corporations to the city in 2017.

 Quang Binh Province will auction the rights to operate tours to caves in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park after Oxalis Company ends the contract.

 The State-run Vietnam Computerized Lottery Co. Ltd. (Vietlott) recently announced its preliminary report on the business results for the 2016 fiscal year.

The Electricity of Vietnamwill continue to hold a monopoly on power distribution and retail sale through the management and control of power distribution and retail trade companies in the form of one-member limited liability companies.