VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of boats transporting flowers from southern provinces have landed at the wharf of Binh Dong in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City to serve the Tet holiday.

 Maps demonstrating areas vulnerable to elevated water levels caused by hurricanes in coastal provinces are at the heart of a project to cope with super typhoons conducted by the National Steering Committee for Flood Control and Prevention.

For this Lunar New Year, or Tet, Saigontourist is still the main organizer of major events in HCMC, including a lighting decoration on Ham Nghi Boulevard, a fireworks display for Lunar New Year’s Eve and the flower street on Ham Nghi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Ba Thanh, the Head of the Central Commission for Internal Affairs, died at noon on February 13 after several months of treatment in Singapore, the US and Vietnam for marrow disorder.

Local and foreign visitors have a variety of domestic tour options during the upcoming lunar New Year holiday (Tet), which will last from February 15 to 23 this year..

Apple has banned the practice of bonded labour - where new recruits are charged a fee - from its factories.

 Women trying for a baby and those in the first three months of pregnancy should not drink any alcohol, updated UK guidelines say.

 US President Barack Obama and Apple's Tim Cook are among the speakers at a cybersecurity summit on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – They have a lot of money but do not have time to prepare the feast for their ancestors and for the Kitchen Gods, so they hire others to do it.

During Tet, Saigon is always different as its streets are not as crowded as usual and one can see beautiful flowers, fruits, ornamental trees and revelers with beautiful clothes and smiling faces.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The police of Quang Ninh Province have imposed administrative fines totaling VND20 million ($1,000) on five Chinese and one Korean for unauthorized entry into Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A woman from the central province of Nghe An was arrested on February 12 while transporting six dead, frozen monkeys in a sack.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese boy Do Nhat Nam who has excellent English and writing talent, recently ranked first in Dallas, USA at a presentation contest after only five months studying in the US.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese tax authority will investigate 26 tax accounts held with HSBC's controversial Swiss bank, which has been accused of helping affluent tax-dodgers across the world.

 The Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAGL) has entered a joint venture (JV) with real-estate and investment firm Rowsley Ltd. for developing a mixed-use project in Yangon, Myanmar.

 The V.League 1's Quang Ninh Coal team achieved an awards hat-trick in January, according to the Viet Nam Football Federation.

Hanoi's Hang Luoc Street in the old quarter is famous for its traditional Tet flower market. Nguyen Viet Thanh shows images of the market on a spring morning, a week ahead of the Year of the Goat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Anh Gia Lai's (HAGL's) striker Nguyen Cong Phuong has been found guilty of violating the national team's trade rights after he wore the team's jersey during a beer commercial.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many travel agencies have reported their domestic and international tours for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday are almost fully booked and bookings are up at least 10% compared to last Tet.

The Hoi An Culture and Sports Centre has issued a notice, suspending all tour guide activities during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

 HCM City's gateways and many streets in the downtown areas are regularly gridlocked in the run-up to Tet with people trapped in traffic unable to get any real time information about the jams.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Water puppetry and Dong Ho paintings are just two amongst Viet Nam's many traditional arts selected to entertain locals and tourists alike during the Lunar New Year holiday season in Ha Noi's Old Quarter.

 The Ministry of Health's Food Hygiene and Safety Department has instructed the health sector in Binh Duong Province to set up an inter-disciplinary team to inspect production activities at the Tan Hiep Phat Beverage Group in Thuan An Commune.

 Tet (Lunar New Year) festival paintings of the Sinh village are a combination of traditional culture and ancient artistic methods and have been part of the of the Hue ethnic minority culture for over four centuries.

 For the first time, Vietnamese tourism agencies are displaying their products at an international tourism fair in Tehran, Iran, which commenced on February 12.