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).

Art schools have all called for their autonomy in enrolling students. They want the right to decide how many students to receive and what exam subjects students need to take.

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2012, about 3.5 million Vietnamese traveled abroad, of which China alone attracted 1.1 million Vietnamese visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge – Below are the people who are bright stars in Vietnam’s sky of art in 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At midnight on the 2013 Lunar New Year’s Eve, fireworks will be set off around the country.

Businessmen have become more picky when choosing the first caller for the New Year Day.

Medical workers who help women to determine the sex of their child during the early stages of pregnancy before birth will be fined VND10-20 million, 30 per cent higher than before.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tu Do Gallery in District 1 has opened a spring exhibition featuring Nguyen Van Phuong, Van Chien, Tran Thi Thu Ha, Le Tuan Anh and Nguyen Xuan Anh.

The project on using mosquitoes to eliminate dengue has been kicked off on Tri Nguyen island of Nha Trang City of Khanh Hoa province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem will take part in Aeroflot Open 2013 scheduled for February 12-17 in Russia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dyke erosion and forested areas cut down for shrimp ponds are destroying farmland and affecting the livelihood of local residents in coastal areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tra Vinh.

In the afternoon of February 7, nearly 50,000 people flock to Mien Dong bus station in HCM City to return home for the Tet holiday. At the same time, tens of thousands of people also rushed to  My Dinh and Giap Bat bus stations in Hanoi.

 Yahoo! on Wednesday announced an advertising alliance with Google, the company that dethroned the pioneering Internet firm in the world of Internet search.

Illicit cigarettes face crackdown; Ad expense rules need reform, chambers say; Medicine needed for health investment; Wind power project begins on Phu Quy; PetroVietnam seeks fund for the $9bn refinery

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi Telecom recently complained that Viettel and VNPT cut its connection channels, causing difficulties for its business operations.  

Commercial banks that fail to ensure smooth and stable operation of their automatic teller machine (ATM) systems during the coming lunar new year holiday will be fined,