VietNamNet Bridge – Woodland peach trees used to blossom this time to welcome the Lunar New Year. In the current cold spell, they seem to have overslept.

Indochina Airlines, which was believed to have bankruptedbecause it has disappeared from the aviation market for a long time, and Ha Dung, the owner of the disreputable airline, has appeared again on local newspapers.

Hoi An to host first Global Choir Festival; Traditional handicrafts threatened by oblivion; Musical performance honors overseas Vietnamese; Vietnam’s music award 2010; Vietnam folk painting exhibition opens in Laos    

VietNamNet Bridge – The competition is coming to an end. Of the  top three  candidates – Tuyet Lan, Thu Thuy and Huyen Trang, who will be the winner?

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of passengers flocked to HCM City’s Mien Dong coach station to purchase tickets for the upcoming lunar New Year holiday (Tet) on January 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – After the Vietnam dong deposit interest rates have been stabilized at around 14 percent per annum as per banks’ commitments to the Vietnam Banking Association, banks are now rushing to raise the dollar deposit interest rates.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Electricity of Vietnam Group Monday asked the government for VND13 trillion (US$666.8 million) so that it can operate oil-fueled thermal plants to overcome the serious power shortage expected this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese leading economists believe that it would be unfeasible to try to escape from the influences from China – and the best thing to do now is to find the way to prosper based on the prosperity of China.

As the competition among retailers has stiffened, many retailers have decided to develop online trade. 

The lunar New Year (Tet holiday) is the time for Vietnamese to relax and spend money, especially the rich. VietNamNet reporters collect interesting stories about Tet hobbies.

WTO center inaugurated in Vietnam; Vietnam Airlines braces for Tet tumult; Vietnam Electricity plans $1 bln bonds overseas; Vietnam lowers 2011 rice export target; Tourists, or not tourists - that is the question

VietNamNet Bridge – The most famous models in Vietnam grouped up at the 23rd Charming Vietnam music show in the central province of Phu Yen last week.

VietNamNet Bridge – Teenager Nguyen Hoang Thien will play his first ever Grand Slam for juniors in Sydney on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Brazilian-born striker Huynh Kesley Alves formerly of V-League club Binh Duong won the nation's Golden Boot award for the highest Vietnamese goal scorer of the year, the prize organising committee told Viet Nam News yesterday

VietNamNet Bridge – Eastern Bus Station started to sell passenger tickets for Tet yesterday, Jan 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – A major food hygiene inspection campaign is now underway in HCM City as Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches.

VietNamNet Bridge – General Vo Nguyen Giap is among 99 individuals and units who will be honoured during a live televised programme on January 24 for their outstanding contributions to help Agent Orange/dioxin victims in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the provincial authority of Thua Thien-Hue blocked the water current of a branch of the Huong River so that it could flow into the Ta Trach Reservoir

VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of six short stories by veteran army writer Suong Nguyet Minh has won the Viet Nam Writers Association annual Literature Prize.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and German artists are deep in rehearsals for an interdisciplinary music-theatre piece which is to have its world premiere at Ha Noi Opera House this Friday.

VN sends sympathies to Iran over plane crash; VN ‘united with Asian, African, Latin American countries'; EU diplomat: Vietnam ties will bear new fruit; Vietnam-Cambodia border gate opens

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to redouble its efforts to support the people of Haiti on the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 and made 1.5 million others homeless.

Cuba announced its registration of the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer, named CIMAVAX-EGF, in the world here on Monday.

Apple Inc. on Tuesday announced that a version of its iPhone 4 will be available on the network of Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the United States.

News Corp.'s social network MySpace announced on Tuesday that it plans to lay off 500 jobs worldwide in a bid to streamline operations.