Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed Decision No. 6 on the exemption of personal income tax for foreign experts working on foreign aid projects in Viet Nam.

Vietnamese weightlifters will participate in a training course in the United States, starting next month.

 Six Vietnamese movies will be screened at a special programme entitled New Action! Southeast Asia at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2016 from March 4 to 13.

  The management board of Van Phong economic zone (EZ) in Khanh Hoa Province announced yesterday the bidding plan for a construction of a road that leads to the EZ.

Hai Phong has decided to release Pham Duc Hieu as director of the Project Management Unit of Regional Transport Works for slow implementation of projects. He was asked to take up another posting at the municipal Department of Transport.

VietNamNet Bridge - Successfully calling for tens of millions of dollars from the world’s large investment funds, Vietnamese startups did well in the Year of a Goat.

VietNamNet Bridge - In August 2013, Russian President Putin signed a decree approving the 5TOP100 project which aims to put at least five Russian schools into the list of 100 best universities in the world.

Scientists have repeatedly urged eliminating white asbestos in Vietnam as soon as possible, while government officials still debate the matter, saying that no scientific research can find a relation between white asbestos and cancer.

VietNamNet Bridge - An Inventor has made a steel ladder that can be used to exit a building in emergency cases that is comparable to similar imported products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has a plan for its economic development over the next 20 years. Bui Trinh, an economic expert, spoke to the Hai quan (Customs) on-line outlet regarding tasks that Viet Nam must accomplish.

 Responsible tourism is everyone’s business and the industry has the potential to become the cornerstone of the nation’s economy, says the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

VietNamNet Bridge - The market for safe agricultural products is wide open for investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM) has projected the nation’s online retail sales would amount to US$10 billion by 2020, accounting for 5% of total retail revenue.  

 The 9th Ho Chi Minh City Book Festival will be held at the Le Van Tam Park in District 1 from March 21-27.

 People have donned monk robes and roamed the streets of HCM City to fraudulently earn money as people continue to flock to temples and pagodas following the start of the new lunar year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vegetables, fruits and seafood are expected to benefit much from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement despite concerns that agriculture will be one of the most vulnerable sectors.

 The central city of Da Nang has issued orders prohibiting the parking of four-wheelers on even dates and odd days on certain routes of the city centre.

 A line-up of activities will be held by the friendship group of parliamentarians who love Vietnam in the European Parliament (EP) in 2016 to enhance cooperation with Vietnam.

 The content and agenda of the 11th meeting of the 13th National Assembly (NA), to be held in late March, were among the talking points of the NA Standing Committee’s 45th session on the morning of February 24.

VietNamNet Bridge - Natural rubber, sea shipping, pharmaceuticals, seafood, oil & gas, and steel enterprises are expected to be under pressure this year, according to securities firms.

 U.S. health officials are investigating 14 reports of the Zika virus that may been transmitted through sex, including to several pregnant women, raising new questions about the role sexual transmission is playing in the growing outbreak.

 The Fijian government and international aid agencies began delivering much needed aid on Wednesday to the Pacific nation's remote islands and coastal villages devastated by a powerful cyclone that killed 42 people.

 Many sellers in HCM City are re-trapping birds that have been released as part of the traditional First Full-moon Festival.

 Vietnam will grasp the opportunity to promote the country through famous movies, a tourism official has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Folk games such as bamboo dance, tug of war, mud banger, and stilt walking, were recreated in a program called “Discovering Vietnamese Tet” at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology on January 30.