Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal worth a total of $19bn (£11.4bn) in cash and shares. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 32-episode television film on the legendary Vietnamese spy Pham Xuan An will be shot soon in both the US and Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of students still can move up to the next grades even though they have bad learning records or have the grades below average.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Set top box (STB) manufacturers said they would only make products to the State’s order under the national TV digitalization plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Commercial banks now can sigh with relief as the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has decided to amend the regulation on debt classification to save them.

 Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Yokohama are working to establish a direct air link that serves the increase number of business travellers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang is working on a project to develop a national geopark in an effort to preserve natural and cultural values there.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has become the fourth country in the world and the second in Southeast Asia to produce an anti-diarrhea vaccine for children.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One of the most outstanding Italian pianists and a successful conductor Andrea Bonatta will hold concerts in Viet Nam from February 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vovinam – the martial art created by Vietnam - wins the strong support of five countries for a chance to appear in the 28th Southeast Asia Games, said Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Olympic Committee – Mr. Hoang Vinh Giang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has called on relevant bodies to accelerate co-ordination efforts with the Samsung group to restructure domestic shipbuilding activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With eye-catching decor, this unique cafe is located in a wagon of more than 100 years old.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mau Son Tourist Area located around 30 kilometers east of Lang Son City on National Road No. 4B and stretching over the three communes of Cong Son,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has remained relatively robust amidst the turmoil in international financial markets, HSBC has said in a regular monthly report.

 Antidepressant drug citalopram could help significantly relieve agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease, but at the cost of slightly decreasing cognitive function and increasing heart attack risk,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology will encourage businesses to foster innovation through research. The scheme is part of a project costing US$110 million to boost the country's creative industries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An influx of saline water will flow 40-60km inland into the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's coastal provinces next month, according to the Southern Irrigation Science Institute.

 VietNamNet Bridge - To promote administrative reform to serve nearly 1.8 million residents and 15,000 businesses, the southern province of Binh Duong is the pioneer in grouping all administrative bodies into one place - a 23-storey twin towers.

 Beauties gear up for Miss Ocean Vietnam;  8th HTV Awards 2014 opens for vote; Vietnamese painters solo exhibition debuts in Paris; Ha Giang’s Tran Dynasty antiques recognized as national treasures

 Traffic safety rules tightened at Noi Bai; Pillar collapse kills student in Binh Dinh school; Rotten meat seized in southern province; Bodies of snail farmers found at sea; Nghe An police bust trans-border drug ring

 PM: Restructuring of SOEs key political task; Over 400 SOEs to be equitised by 2015; Vietnamese abroad encouraged to remit money home; HCM City IPs eye US$550 million in investment; Vietnam among top world’s gold consumers

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam once missed the opportunity in 2006-2007 to push up the state owned enterprise (SOE) equitization process and develop its finance market. Will it be able to grab the new coming opportunity?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five hundred enterprises have been listed as having had the fastest growth in Viet Nam in 2013.

 Shares of beverage giant Coca-Cola saw their biggest fall in two years after its profit fell due to slowing sales in the US and Europe.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three projects funded by the European Union to help Viet Nam and neighbouring countries combat illegal logging were launched in Ha Noi yesterday, Feb 18.