Tokyo plans to welcome more Vietnamese tourists

 VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives from 30 Tokyo tourism companies, travel agencies, airlines and hotels have launched a scheme in Hanoi to attract Vietnamese to the Japanese capital.

Spring festivals help to revive folk games across the country

 VietNamNet Bridge – The crowd quickly shaped into a circle in the front yard of the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology as drumbeats resounded and amateur artisans put down heaps of clay.

Vietnam invests in science-technology enterprises

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to have 5,000 businesses operating in science-technology by 2020, which should generate between 7-15 percent of the country’s gross domestic product

Universities’ presidents argue with MOET about floor marks

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of education experts have suggested removing the “floor mark mechanism” from the 2014 exam season because it is “unreasonable” and “unscientific.”

Android TV Box believed to be the biggest choice for TV users

 VietNamNet Bridge – The reasonable prices of Android TV Box proves to be the great advantage that helps Android TV Box become more favored than smart TVs. Experts believe that this would be the biggest choice for TV users in the near future.

McDonald’s hamburger shows dong undervalued

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam dong is believed to be undervalued by 39 percent if compared with the US dollar.

FDI: Vietnam tries to catch “big fish”

 VietNamNet Bridge – Samsung is the big foreign investor Vietnam wants to attract and the one which has expressed its willingness to make investments in many different business fields in Vietnam.

Flappy Bird success story encourages domestic developers

 VietNamNet Bridge – The popular Flappy Bird game marked a bright point for Viet Nam's application industry, raising excitement amongst developers, Vietnamese technology experts told Vietnamplus online newspaper.

Locals outraged by polluting shrimp firm

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of households in southern Soc Trang Province's Thanh Phu Commune are demanding strong action against a local shrimp processing company that has continued to pollute their main water source

Rare brain infection reported in Ha Noi

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Tropical Diseases Hospital received a patient suffering from meningococcal disease, a rare but serious brain infection, early this week.

Vietnamese students battle wits in virtual stock competition

 VietNamNet Bridge – The third edition of the only virtual stock investment competition for Vietnamese students in the UK – the Student Investment Challenge (SIC) – declared a winner on February 15.

EVN to slash 98 mln USD from non-core ops

 VietNamNet Bridge – Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) plans to withdraw capital worth 2.07 trillion VND (97.64 million USD) from seven non-core companies by 2015.

Unique soil firecracker festival in pictures

 VietNamNet Bridge - On the morning of February 15, at the Con Son – Kiep Bac Festival in Chi Linh district of Hai Duong province, 100 local men competed in a soil firecracker making competition.

Jazz star Tung Duong to perform Doc Dao in Paris

VietNamNet Bridge – After their successful performance in Ha Noi, "Divo of Viet Nam," Tung Duong and Vietnamese-French musician/producer Nguyen Le will present their music project Doc Dao (Only Path) at Theatre Adyar, Paris on March 2. 

The Khmer temple in Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge - This is a destination that should not to be missed for those who are interested in architectural heritage and traditional arts of the Khmer in Hanoi.

Nam Du Archipelago’s beaches attract tourist

VietNamNet Bridge – From the observation deck of Radar Station 600, Nam Du Archipelago’s island landscape of sparkling beaches paints a watercolor image. The vast ocean is crowded with small boats and big ships.

Cherishing a space dream

 VietNamNet Bridge – For Vu Thanh Long, the winner of the Unilever Group’s Axe “Finding Vietnam’s Second Person in Space” competition, stratospheric ambitions are intimately tied to helping his homeland.

Google buys sound authentication firm SlickLogin

 Google has acquired SlickLogin - an Israeli start-up behind the technology that allows websites to verify a user's identity by using sound waves.

Art & Entertainment News Headlines 18/2

 Paris fashion academy backs TV show Project Runway; Thailand organises concert against human trafficking; Ethnology museum receives precious elephant hunting tools; Ethnology museum receives precious elephant hunting tools

Social News Headlines 18/2

 Mekong rice at risk from disease; 300 kg of smuggled poultry seized; HCM City to build new flyover; Child helmet-wearing rate below target; Hai Phong police bust gambling network; Incomes fall for relocated families

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 18/2

 State to keep stake in equitised SOEs; Revised law prioritises local contractors; Local auto makers toast jump in January sales; Oversupply forces cement producers to look abroad; Vietnam-Japan trade hits 25.6 bln USD

Cash windfall spurs record trades

 VietNamNet Bridge – A significant amount of capital was injected into the stock market last week as investor confidence improved, boosting liquidity on both the bourses to a record high.

Two more officials from Asia Bank face prosecution

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Supreme People's Procuracy has recently prosecuted two more former officials of the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) for allegedly violating banking regulations.

Binh Duong enjoy first V-League victory

 VietNamNet Bridge – Becamex Binh Duong grabbed their first victory this V-League season after beating Dong Nai 4-1 yesterday (Feb 16) on their home ground.

Sports News Headlines 17/2

 Vietnamese badminton player seeded 8th at England tournament; Tennis player Hoang Thien to be trained in Taiwan; Windsurf competition wraps up in Binh Thuan; Football: Vietnam third in Southeast Asia