Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong offered his best wishes to incumbent and former leaders of the Party and State as well as the entire Vietnamese people yesterday on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

VietNamNet Bridge - A teacher of history tried to kill himself with a knife at a ceremony held by the Le Quy Don High School to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the school's establishment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has issued a new decree governing foreign firms’ establishment of representative offices and branches in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Quy Dong and Cai Mon in Dong Thap and Ben Tre provinces are the two biggest flower cultivation areas of the Mekong Delta.

The Ministry of Culture has asked the PM's permission to join South Korea in compiling a multinational dossier seeking UNESCO’s recognition of the traditional craft of lacquer as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage.

 The Vietnam e-Business Index (EBI) 2015 report has revealed great disparity in e-commerce development among localities, particularly in big cities including Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi.

 Hospitals across the country have prepared everything for medical examination and treatment of emergency cases before and during the Tet (Lunar News Year) holiday period.

VietNamNet Bridge - Economists have warned that the foreign-invested economic sector may become dominant in the national economy.

 The net sale of shares worth 1.25 trillion VND (56.2 million USD) by foreign investors in January contributed significantly to the decline of the stock market last month, data collected by two local bourses.

 "Banh Chung" (square glutinous rice cake) is a traditional cake of Vietnamese people in Tet holidays.

VietNamNet Bridge – As an annual routine, in the lead up to Tet (Lunar New Year), people in mountainous districts in the central province of Quang Nam start collecting wild grass used for making brooms. 

HCMC took the lead in the Vietnam e-Business Index 2015 with 73.3 points in a report of the Vietnam e-Commerce Association announced last week though other cities performed better than the southern economic center in certain areas.

 Vietnam needs proper measures to turn opportunities created by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement into reality and cope with any difficulties, an official has said.

 Le Quang Liem has dropped four places to No 37 among active players in the latest world men’s rankings announced by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

Crowds of people have flocked to Hang Ma Street in the Hanoi Old Quarter to purchase votive objects and decorations for the traditional lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

 Free wifi service will be available for tourists during Huong Pagoda Festival, which is scheduled to open on February 13.

 Hung Yen police said on February 2 that they had seized a truck transporting 81 pangolins, a rare animal species banned from trading.

VietNamNet Bridge - BKV, the franchisee which brought Burger King to Vietnam, said it has shut down its third restaurant in HCM City and plans to march towards the north.

 Nearly 700 students from 47 secondary and high schools took part in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 10/12) held at Chu Van An High School in Hanoi on February 2.

 The heavy lift vessel Rolldock Storm, carrying the Kilo submarine Russia built for Vietnam , arrived at Cam Ranh Port in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on February 2 after a voyage from Russia.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong continues to receive congratulatory sent by leaders of foreign countries on his re-election as Vietnam’s Party chief.

 The Lao and the Cambodian Party Central Committees have cabled messages of congratulations to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) over its 86 th founding anniversary (February 3).

The Vietnamese Government agreed to sign the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” agreement with Resolution 09/NQ-CP issued on February 2.

 Bad fuel hits cars in HCMC, Ha Noi to provide 6,000 Pentaxim vaccine doses, Severe cold snaps likely to hit northern Vietnam in Feb, Nobel laureates to attend scientific conference in Vietnam, Border guards rescue fishing boat

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tuy Phong District in the central province of Binh Thuan has become a popular tourist destination for the beauty of Co Thach Beach and Hang Pagoda.