VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomes the constructive comments and recommendations of UN member countries on its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle, a leading Vietnamese diplomat has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Flappy Bird has surpassed Angry Birds or Candy Crush to become the world’s leading mobile game conquering mobile game market shares with downloads on iOS and Android phones in January 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For 15 years, Michel searched for his father in vain. Only two hours after posting information on Facebook, the German man had clues and found his Vietnamese father after nearly 30 years.

 CVS Caremark, the second largest drugstore chain in the U.S., announced Wednesday it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in its more than 7, 600 stores nationwide,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The demand for high-class staff in 2014 is believed to be extremely high in the consumer goods, pharmacy, consumer lending, retailing and chemicals production sectors.

According to the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, there are 818 operational travel firms put under the department’s management which can meet the requirements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Owning more than 200 vintage motorbikes manufactured mostly in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s by stables such as Suzuki, Mobbylette, Lambretta, Honda and Yamaha, Nguyen Hien Tuan considers the collection,

 Lang Son confirms no H7N9 infection; HCM City to set up new post-planning office; Ha Noi suburbs face shortage of clean water; First Vietnamese school for children inaugurated in Japan; One killed in HCM City house fire

 Local company boosts Cameroon investment; Vinamilk expands world market; Binh Dinh unveils prioritised investment projects; Big challenge for economy in 2014; Haiphong licenses Hong Kong investment project

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the first day of the Huong (Perfume) Pagoda Festival, the largest festival in northern Vietnam, thousands of tourists flocked to the pagoda on the outskirts of Hanoi from 1-2am.

After drinking a lot of wine of various kinds over four consecutive days, from January 30 through February 2, a 32 -year-old man in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi, was hospitalized and later died after.

 Going to the districts of Yen Son, Son Duong, Ham Yen and Na Hang in Tuyen Quang Province, visitors will see straight greenish tea beds everywhere.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Thuy Hai rejoined as technical director of V-League's Becamex Binh Duong on Monday, the first day of training of the team after the Tet holiday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Berlin Film Festival will kick off its Panorama section on February 6 with the latest film of award winning director Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh entitled “Nuoc (water) 2030”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – If preschool teachers have no sense of morality and lack pedagogical skills, they would make mistakes sooner or later.

 Hanoi is developing tours to six selected local trade villages as part of efforts to promote this type of tourism in the capital city.

 Tet festivals take place across Vietnam; Violinist Cong Duy performs in Germany; Ethnic Tet celebrations scheduled at culture village; Ancient Thai books: a treasure of Son La province

 Overseas Vietnamese seeking to re-export ineligible cars; Local gold price slides after Tet; US farm bill hampers Vietnamese catfish; Exports to the US leap 21.3 per cent; Deficit higher as shipments plunge

 A deaf composer who has been dubbed "Japan's Beethoven" has admitted hiring someone else to write his music for nearly two decades.

 Every day at Tan Xuan wholesale market in Hoc Mon District of Ho Chi Minh City, about 5,000 pigs are sold to traders and transported to smaller markets in the city.

 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday declared a state of emergency for all of New York State, effective immediately as a winter storm continues to bring heavy snow, ice, and freezing rain to communities in both the upstate

Since early this year, the fishing wharf of Sa Huynh in Duc Pho District, Quang Ngai Province has been animated with the return of convoys of offshore fishing ships, each full of fresh tuna.

Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle was reviewed at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on February 5 in Geneva, Switzerland.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 286 people were killed in 598 traffic accidents nationwide during the recent nine-day Tet (Lunar New Year) festival that ran from January 28 to February 5.

 Scientists have created a bionic hand which allows the amputee to feel lifelike sensations from their fingers.