VietNamNet Bridge – The champion of La Liga will ink a deal with a Vietnamese business in March 2016, paving the way for Messi and his teammates to go to Vietnam like Arsenal and Manchester City did recently.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City National University has announced that it will admit students from 82 high schools for the gifted throughout the country based on letters of recommendation and student essays. 

Bloomberg has reported that to realize the ambition to become "Asia's Emirates", the low-cost airline VietJet plans to implement an IPO in the second quarter of 2016, with 30% of shares possibly sold to foreign partners.

VietNamNet Bridge - The inter-ministerial circular No 27 which took effect on February 15 is expected to make a breakthrough in scientific research as it allows scientists to take initiative in their work.

A trip to the US by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong deepened the US-VN partnership. This year President Barack Obama will pay a visit to Vietnam in May. We should take advantage of current momentum and build the foundation for a long partnership. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – We take advantage of a weekend after Tet (Lunar New Year) to visit one of the most pristine and peaceful islands in the south of Vietnam: Nam Du Island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

VietNamNet Bridge - In Vietnam, local officials drink bottles of liquor worth of thousands of dollars that Japanese dare not drink.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam must work to improve collections and rein in overspending if it hopes to bridge its budget deficit.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wrestlers from across the country recently gathered at a traditional wrestling festival in Que Duong Village in Hanoi. – Photos: Kienthuc

 Viet Nam has about 100 out of more than 7,000 rare diseases reported from across the world, it was announced at a conference organised by the National Hospital of Pediatrics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although agriculture is touted as a competitive advantage of Vietnam, complicated administrative procedures have held back the development of the sector.

 The Vietnamese and Cambodian judicial ministries signed a 2016 cooperation agreement following talks between their ministers in Phnom Penh on February 29.

 The driver of a car lost control of her vehicle and hit and killed three people, including a six-year-old child, in Hanoi's Long Bien District this morning.

 A red-faced monkey was captured after it ran amok in Dinh Cong new urban area yesterday afternoon, Ha Noi City's Hoang Mai District police said.

 A 3,000 tonne building in this Central Highland province has been moved 10m away from its original position by an engineer from Ha Noi.

 Hundreds of overseas Vietnamese in Frankfurt am Main and its neighbouring regions on February 28 staged a demonstration at the Chinese Consulate-General in Germany to protest China’s military actions in the East Sea, which have escalated tension.

  Politburo member and Vietnam Fatherland Front President Nguyen Thien Nhan met with Thomas Oppermann, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) parliamentary group, in Hanoi on February 29.

  China attaches importance to its relations with Vietnam and is consistent in developing the ties sustainably, said Chinese Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping.

 The German State of Hessen has paid heed to enforcing ties with Vietnam, particularly in education, said Professor Gambiz Ghawami, a local representative, during his meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on February 29.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung suggested Cabinet members raise the national GDP growth rate target from 6.7% to 7% in 2016.

 Phan Dinh Trac, a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), was named head of the CPVCC’s Commission for Internal Affairs under a decision by the Politburo.

 Discerning tourists never plan a trip without thinking through what they are going to do when they get there.  Sounds obvious, right?  Leisure activities.  Location.  Service standards. Charges.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal loggers have destroyed a vast area in the protected Nature Reserve in Son Tra peninsula since last year.

Asian stocks retreated on Monday after a weekend meeting of G20 policymakers ended with no new coordinated action to spur global growth and as solid U.S. data revived expectation of the Federal Reserve further raising rates before year-end.

 As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the economic damage will increase even faster, scientists said on Monday.