VietNamNet Bridge - Ornaments, lucky money envelopes, Feng Shui statues… are sold very well on the days before the lunar New Year.

Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han and leading model Ngoc Quyen appear in two new collections of ao dai, designed by Ngoc Han herself and Lien Huong.

VietNamNet Bridge - Starting with mice, fish became his passion. Dr. Nguyen Thai Tu has devoted his life to the search for new species of fish for Vietnam and the world.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hospitals in Ha Noi have announced that they are ready to care for patients during the upcoming Tet holiday, which will last for nine days beginning this Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prior to every Tet Lunar New Year festive season, which this year falls on February 10, hundreds of cases of firecrackers are seized by customs authorities at border gates from China,

Samsung’s second plant to take shape in Vietnam; Clothing exports surge by 28 percent; Vietnamese seafood gains firm foothold in US; No price hike during Tet; VND16.9 trillion invested in power transmission

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lights, flowers and decorations fill the streets around the capital as Hanoians count down the days to the lunar Year of the Snake.

VietNamNet Bridge – U.S.-based Starbucks Coffee Company opened its first store in Vietnam at the New World Hotel in downtown HCMC last Friday, sparking curiosity in a country

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2013 ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Simulation Exercise (ARDEX) is scheduled to take place in Viet Nam in October.

Stalls overflow with bouquets in the markets, blooms hang from pot plants in the streets and flower growers make hay while the sun shines. It's spring festival fever. Hoai Nam reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Parking lots in big cities have dramatically hiked fees as Tet approaches, defying cutoffs set by local authorities.

The famous comedian Xuan Bac has sued the DMC film studio and the Viet Sky Art and Event Co for alleged copyright violation, complaining that a comedy routine he performed was reproduced

 Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry will not launch its new models in Japan, reports said on Friday, effectively heralding a pull-out from a booming smartphone market

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five new steel mills with a combined capacity of 1.5 million tons per year will start operations this year, making supply further exceed demand and leading to a fiercer competition in the local steel market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Association of Fine Arts has put on show 300 artworks on to celebrate the lunar Year of the Snake.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Industrial park workers and migrant workers in urban areas are making their journeys home to celebrate Tet with support from their employers or labour unions,

VietNamNet Bridge – The stabilizing of the dong/dollar exchange rate over the last two years has made the local currency depreciate by 20 percent, which has hindered exports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prices have risen at traditional markets in HCM City on essential goods as the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday approaches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Flower Festival on Nguyen Hue Street in Ho Chi Minh City opened on February 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – It takes tourists four hours to reach Tan Quy Dong flower village in Sa Dec Town in Dong Thap Province from HCMC but it is worth every second when they see the beauty

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will do its utmost to intensify ASEAN’s joint efforts to build a single, united community by 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – In the dry season, residents of Bay Nui in Tinh Bien and Tri Ton districts, An Giang province) go to the forest to hunt queen termites, scorpions, etc., which are rumored to be good for men’s virility.

VietNamNet Bridge - In three days, the Hong Phuc Pagoda in Hanoi made 2,000 banh chung to give to the poor and the disadvantaged people.

Analysts all keep optimistic when giving predictions about the stock market performance in 2013 after several years of staying gloomy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will send two representatives to compete at the 2013 Asia Marathon Championships scheduled for February 24 in Hong Kong (China).