VietNamNet Bridge – The Peanut is back. The band of four brothers that began rocking Sai Gon audiences more than four decades years ago has reached an agreement to perform every evening at the Palace Sai Gon Hotel under their first name.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the tenth day of the first lunar month, “Con di danh bong”, a folk dance of hundreds of years old, is performed at the festival of Trieu Khuc village in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi.

Vietnam is emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in the Asia – Pacific region. Like in other emerging markets, the financial burden of falling ill in Vietnam is becoming larger as incomes increase and lifestyles change.

VietNamNet Bridge – Financial expert Bui Kien Thanh told the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper that one of the key tasks in managing the country's macro economy was to lower the lending interest rate.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Department of Science and Technology will kill red-ear turtles in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake in March to protect the legendary turtle.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people stood on the pavement and the road to attend the early-year rituals at Phuc Khanh, one of the most famous pagodas in Hanoi.

Paper maker targets higher earnings; Cement producers face market glut; Services sector lifts exports; Northern provinces set for bumper harvest; Breeding industry given 8% target; Vietnam’s inflation likely to surpass 10 percent

VietNamNet Bridge - The fact that a nine-year-old Vietnamese boy went to the South Pole with his father while some others at his age never go too far from their homes, has raised a debate among parents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to make an effective administration at a meeting to implement the ministry’s task for 2011 in Hanoi on February 12.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Viet Nam Railway Corporation started work to strengthen railway infrastructure on the North-South route in central Ha Tinh Province yesterday following instructions from Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dao people in Ta Phin, Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province on February 10 organized the early year singing festival to pray for health, love and good harvest.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has ordered its members to buy 1 million tons of rice from farmers and stock the amount for three months to keep up the price for the grain.

VietNamNet Bridge – University graduates of less than 30 years old will have an opportunity to become vice chairs of 600 communes in Vietnam, under a US$10.25 million project which has been approved by the prime minister.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh has completely recovered from his knee injury and will re-join the V-League from the third round, in the game between Hanoi T&T and SHB Da Nang next week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Commercial banks posted solid earnings in 2010 with an average growth in profit of over 20 per cent, most of which came from lending and foreign exchange trading.

VietNamNet Bridge - Until February 10, some Vietnamese athletes bagging medals at the ASIAD 16 in China in November last year have yet received any cash awards promised previously by the government.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman finally got married and it was the happy ending of a 31-year love story.

VietNamNet Bridge - Danang will become more attractive to tourists and individual investors seeking second homes in the central region.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Construction Ministry has proposed an increase in housing subsidies as a part of employee wages with an aim to help them resolve difficulties in accessing cheap accommodation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Joe Jackson, 82, the father of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, arrived in Vietnam February 11 to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of a five-star hotel project in the southern province of Long An.

VietNamNet Bridge - Physical education at all levels in Vietnam has been notorious for cultivating in students a hatred for sports with its rigid grading system, joyless drill and limited offerings.

Shoemakers build on success; In-bound tourists up 20 percent during Tet; Sales boom in imported electronics; Portfolio investors likely to return; Tuna exports keep growing

VietNamNet Bridge - Vo Hong Quan, a vocal music student at the Virty-sur-Seine Music College, was crowned Miss Spring 2011 at a beauty contest for Vietnamese students in France on February 12

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Capital Investment Corp (SCIC) is looking to divest 281 enterprises and to sell the entire State stake in 170 local enterprises, General Director Lai Van Dao told a recent meeting.

With quality improvement, Vietnam’s exports of dragon fruit have increased dramatically. Meanwhile, rambutan is prepared to re-enter the US after the lifting of the ban on the Vietnamese fruit, expected to take place this month.