VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines plans to restructure its subsidiary - the Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) - to establish a new airline offering short flights.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many streets in Danang, the biggest city in central Vietnam, have become roads of light before the Lunar New Year 2016 (Tet holiday). Let’s take a walk around the city at night.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF, which has been looking for a new coach for the Vietnam national team, plans to introduce the new coach after the Lunar New Year holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - One out of every four US businesses in China have left or have plans to leave China. And Vietnam could be the next destination for them.

 Local mobile phone service providers like Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone have drawn up plans to cope with network glitches, especially for the 3G service during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).   

As Tet (Lunar New Year) is a special time for family reunion of the Vietnamese, many shops and restaurants are close in HCMC. But those who stay in the city at Tet can still find some places to come for food and drinks.

 Once a year, the leaves market is opened on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in HCMC’s Tan Binh District on the 20th of the last lunar month to sell dong (Phrynium placentarium) and banana leaves for wrapping banh chung and banh tet.

VietNamNet Bridge - Located in An Hao Commune, Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province, Nui Cam (Forbidden Mountain) is an ideal destination for travelers and families in the lunar New Year holiday.

VN to cut tariffs on Laos imports, Flower industry needs tech growth, Masan's sales jump 90%, profits up 24% to $113m, January PMI up as new orders increase, Domestic lending drops off in January

  Lunar New Year just around the corner and Hanoi puts on its brightest face in celebration.

 Vietnamese visitors, including overseas Vietnamese, will be able to visit the Hue Imperial Citadel in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from February 8-10 (the first to third day of the Lunar New Year) for free.

 The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)- an independent business within The Economist Group forecasted an upbeat prospect for Vietnam’s economy with a gross domestic product growth rate expected to stand at 6.8 percent in 2016.

VietNamNet Bridge – The most special and expensive ornamental trees are brought to the Spring Flower Festival in Phu My Hung urban area in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, which is dubbed the “home for the wealthy”.

 Vietnam’s economic freedom index went up 2.3 points compared to last year and reached the overall score of 54, reported the Heritage Foundation in its recently published 2016 Index of Economic Freedom.

 Neither Vietnamese citizen has been detained by Ukraine so far, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department Ly Quoc Tuan affirmed on February 3.

 The Republic of Korea (RoK) on February 3 confirmed the arrest of a Vietnamese citizen who broke through Incheon international airport security to enter the country illegally.

 Economic ministers from 12 member nations signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in Auckland, New Zealand on the morning of February 4.

VietNamNet Bridge – SHB Da Nang have signed contracts with strikers Gaston Merlo Argentina and Horace James of Jamaica in preparation for the national football V-League championship this year. 

 Coach Pham Nhu Thuan of Quang Ninh Coal has finalised his team for the new season after signing a contract with American Rod Dyachenko this week.

 The total state budget revenue in January was 95 per cent of the revenue year-on-year due to about 66 per cent fall in crude oil revenue, the finance ministry said.

 ATMs run out of money ahead of Tet, Dong Nai to stop unlicensed ports, HCMC transporters preparing for Tet, Misused hoist causes construction accident, Disadvantaged communes to receive aid from government

Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang yesterday dismissed the General Director of Hanoi Railway Transport Company, Nguyen Viet Hiep, for failing to comply with the Government's policy on the import of machinery, equipment and technological lines used.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam has told commercial banks to accord top priority to supplying cash at automatic telling machines (ATMs) during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts have compared the investors and the e-commerce market with foxes and grapes. The foxes have come, but the grapes are still not ripe.

VietNamNet Bridge - After Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said that Vietnam will not develop more coal hydropower plants, environmental organizations released statements lauding the decision.