VietNamNet Bridge – The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) has rejected the rumour that its Chairman of Board of Directors Tran Bac Ha was arrested.

  Shooting team aims for Olympic Games; Sparta Prague goalie to join Vietnam’s national squad; Xuan Thanh ready to rumble

 Dutch group promotes Sa Pa waterfall; Lac Hamlet offers home-stay tours; HCM City tourist sites attract millions

The Voice Kids kicks off;  Love duet singing festival opens in Bac Ninh; National heritage of Long Tong festival recognized; Tay ethnic festival receives recognition

Binh Phuoc has received Ministry of Justice’s instruction to not revoke the two decisions recognizing the change of gender and civil status of Mr. Pham Van Hiep into Ms. Quynh Tram, to wait for the Prime Minister's instruction.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has just approved the Master Plan on Economic Restructuring in 2013-2020, which focuses on reorganizing public investment, credit organizations and State-owned enterprises.

A lot of Vietnamese businessmen now plan to march towards Myanmar, an emerging potential market.

Buying a monkey to make bone glue, a man in Quang Tri discovered that the monkey is an endangered Douc langur which is named in the Red Book of Vietnam. The man gave the langur to the authorities to release it back to the forest.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Health Ministry has instructed localities to be vigilant over the spread of a potentially fatal virus that is similar to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).

Guard force awarded Ho Chi Minh Order; Sovereignty exhibition attracts visitors; Vietnamese diplomat presents credentials in Laos

 VietNamNet Bridge – Proposed constitutional amendments need to expand the concept of direct democracy, said deputy Lu Van Que,

3D movie theaters will be built at the Children's Houses of the districts of 5, 6, 8, 9, Go Vap, Binh Tan, Thu Duc, Cu Chi, Binh Chanh and Can Gio. The construction is expected to start in the second quarter of 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has approved the plan to launch the mini satellite VNREDSat-1A, the first remote sensing satellite of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 28-year-old striker will join the Vinh City-based Song Lam Nghe An FC (SLNA), his hometown club, this football season.

VietNamNet Bridge - Canal Plus, the French co-owner of K +, has just announced to buy some exclusive packages of the Premier League (EPL) broadcasting right for $40 million.

On the flight from Da Nang to Khanh Hoa, a Vietnamese American forgot her purse with around $7,000, six Visa cards and some personal documents. A lieutenant in the immigration department sent the money and documents to the victim.

As part of the New Year celebration of 19 ethnic groups in the Vietnam Ethnic Culture Village in Son Tay, Hanoi, the fire jumping ceremony of the Pa Then people took place on the evening of February 20, with the participation of hundreds of people.

The first lunar month is the month of festivals. Everywhere in the country, festivals are held to commemorate those who contributed to the country and the people and to pray for peace and prosperity in the new year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese air carriers cancelled and delayed departure schedules of at least 546 flights during Lunar New Year holiday, better known as Tet,

TrustBank has “opened fire,” kicking start a new merger and acquisition (M&A) wave in 2013. What are the next?

 Italian iconic fashion house Prada transformed 1950s American housewives into would-be Bond girls on Thursday, with a lethally seductive look which gave a powerful twist to the classic hourglass dress.

A school has been offered for sale since the investors cannot enroll students, cannot afford the high land leasing fee and the high bank loan interest rates.

Nearly one million US dollars, or over VND20 billion, would be disbursed from the state budget in a program to help software firms obtain the CMMi (capability maturity model integration) and ISO27001 certificates

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many comedic plays have aired on television in recent months, but audiences have not been satisfied with the quality of scripts and actors’ performances.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the Tay Nguyen region are struggling to find water to irrigate their crops as a drought that hit them early this year has caused many rivers and reservoirs to dry up.