Thousands queued up at the Tan Son Nhat Airport to board domestic flights over the weekend.

Up to 207 majors of 71 universities in Vietnam will not be allowed to recruit students in 2014 due to lack of permanent lecturers, according to a dispatch signed by Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga.

 Largest flower festival marks the beginning of spring; Int’l Culinary Festival 2014 opens in HCM City; Ho Chi Minh City offers traditional cake to ancestors; Research on ancient ceramics wins int't award

 Talented Vietnamese tennis players Hoang Nam and Hoang Thien will meet the international top ten seeds Pakistan at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Davis Cup tie in Da Lat next month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prices of many smart phone models have fallen strongly in the lead up to the traditional Lunar New Year holiday or Tet, making the local market much more bustling than in previous months.

 Vietnamese badminton ace Nguyen Tien Minh has dropped one position to No 8 in the world rankings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though the social network Facebook has had around 20 million users in Vietnam, it has just officially been present in Vietnam via media and advertising partners here.

 VietNamNet Bridge – IT workers have been much in demand in January, according to HCM City's Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information.

 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Jay-Z and Daft Punk are among the stars vying for glory at the prestigious Grammy Awards.

In the days before Tet, many students are excited to come back home to welcome the biggest festival of the year. However, more and more young people are opting to stay in major cities to find jobs and earn lucrative Tet bonuses during the holidays.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government is committed to clamping down on corruption and strengthening the organisation and prosecution of big time cases in its bid to restore people’s trust.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite tens of billions of dong having been spent to build new markets to replace old or temporary structures in rural areas, several markets have been abandoned for years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism parks and entertainment centres in HCM City have made significant investments to attract visitors during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, which begins on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong yesterday, Jan 26, led the nation's leaders in conveying greetings and paying tribute to national heroes on the occasion of Tet (Lunar New Year).

 Protesters in Thailand have surrounded polling stations, blocking early voting ahead of next week's general election, officials say.

These days, residents of the largest bean sprout growing village in the central region - Tho Loc village in Quang Ngai province, flock to the sandy bank of the Tra Khuc River to harvest bean sprouts to serve the Tet-holiday market.

Current H7N9 cases are scattered and there is no evidence of constant inter-human transmission, according to a paper on H7N9 diagnosis and treatment issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission on Sunday. 

Once foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) are given the right to distribute some important products in the domestic market, a lot of Vietnamese businesses would have to leave the market. However, this would benefit consumers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Capital demand for building infrastructure of the electricity industry is increasing, but the industry still has difficulty in gaining access to it, stated Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is among the nations with the lowest unemployment rates on the globe, but the number of young jobless laborers is triple the domestic unemployment rate.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs about US$8.3 billion to provide waste water treatment services to its 36 million urban residents by 2025, according to a World Bank report released yesterday, January 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ta Pa, a 120-meter hill on Tri Ton District in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, lures tourists due to its magnificent and romantic landscapes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese young people, including design students across the nation, have been invited to participate in Design Lab, a global design competition hosted by Swedish household and professional appliances manufacturer Electrolux.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Committee of southern central province of Phu Yen has declared a state of emergency over the sea erosion in the coastal city of Tuy Hoa's Ro neighbourhood.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the economy recovers and the government issues new policies to develop the stock market, the shares of companies in certain sectors are predicted to gain.