On the full moon day of the first lunar month, the Chinese community in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, organized the street festival, attracting thousands of participants. Let’s join the procession through the following pictures:

Shares on the nation’s two stock exchanges retreated last week on false rumours related to a devaluation of the dong, petrol prices increasing and that the Bank for Investment and Development chairman Tran Bac Ha had been arrested.

Coffee ambassador to be selected; Ha Long Bay – a lifetime must-go destination; Farm produce exports up 31.5 percent; FDI disbursement hits over US$1 bln; Garment businesses see bright signs in export

Critics blasted Oscars host Seth MacFarlane on Monday for "crudely sexist antics" and peddling "offensive" Jewish stereotypes, as the Academy Awards post mortem got into full swing.

Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam held a ceremony in Hanoi on February 25 to receive the special national relic certificate and the UNESCO’s Global Memory of the World Programme’s certificate for its 82 doctoral laureate steles.

VietNamNet Bridge would like to introduce an analysis by Jairo Acuna-Alfaro, Policy Advisor, Public Administration Reform and Anti-corruption, UNDP Vietnam, which reviews Vietnam's efforts to combat corruption in 2012 and suggests solutions for 2013.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese karatekas Nguyen Hoang Ngan and Vu Thi Nguyet Anh will return to the national team after long breaks due to injury.

VietNamNet Bridge – The five-time European champion club has announced that the Liverpool fan club in Vietnam has become one of the more than 200 official fan clubs in the world.

VietNamNet Bridge - Mrs. Mae Mua, the representative of Strata sports marketing firm revealed the cost to bring the Italian football club AS Roma to Hanoi at $1 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - In a concert in Ho Chi Minh City, Bojan Z will perform the works that helped him become well-known in the French and the world jazz scene.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam said it would temporarily shut down the Phu Bai international airport in the eight-month period, from 20/3 to 20/11 to repair the runway.

VietNamNet Bridge - While transporting iron to a construction site, a truck overturned, killing four people, including two Vietnamese workers who came from the central province of Quang Ngai on February 20.

"Being touched by hands with sweat for many consecutive years, many doctoral steles in the Temple of Literature are worn out. For example, a stele that was made in 1452 now has no words left," says Dr. Nguyen Minh Tuong, Institute of History.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of February 25, hundreds of young men in Hanoi said goodbye to their friends and relatives to join the army.

On the afternoon of February 25, in Hanoi, Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of Defense, met with the Assistant to the UN Secretary-General, in charge of the UN peacekeeping force, Mr. Edmond Mulet.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of February 22, Binh Phuoc Provincial Police Department prosecuted and arrested two department deputy directors and the director of a center of the province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Being addicted to computer games, a boy was stripped by his father, tied to an electric pole along the road in the cold of below 15 degrees Celsius.

On February 24, Colonel Duong Tu Trong was arrested for investigation related to his help to his elder brother Duong Chi Dung (former director of the Vietnam Maritime Administration) flee.

VietNamNet Bridge – A young woman from Dong Da District, Hanoi, has been fined with VND750,000 ($35) for making a false report to the police.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is home to many different species of snakes, including 5 endemic ones.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is no longer a paradise for foreign football players. Plans to recruit foreign players of football teams have been stalled, waiting for the meeting of sponsors on March 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – Artist Nguyen Quoc Dung awakens very old beauties in a series of photos in the exhibition "Color of Time."

With more than 200 documents and many precious objects, including national treasures, the display of Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Heritage, held at the National History Museum in Hanoi, has attracted special attention of the public.

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