VietNamNet Bridge – Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem had a good start in the Masters event of the Gibraltar International Chess Festival 2019 in the UK on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will continue to co-operate with US television network CNN to promote the city as a new destination for sporting events, including the upcoming Formula 1 Race.

There is a perfect storm brewing for Vietnam in the coming fortnight as family and friends come together for their annual celebrative binge of being Vietnamese for the lunar new year festival, called Tet.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making French cultural tourism a worldwide experience is what the exhibition France eMotion – The Animated Journey is aiming to do at L’Espace in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Phuong of Vietnam was ousted from the Australian Open Junior Championship yesterday in Melbourne.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese fans are heading to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support the national football team for the AFC Asian Cup 2019 quarter-final against Japan on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two international-standard football pitches will be put into use in March in HCM City, according to the city’s football federation.

World-renowned bubble artist Fan Yang, who has enchanted audiences all over the world with his unique and fantastic shows combining lasers and music, has returned to Vietnam to dazzle spectators.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pop star Thanh Thao will perform in California at a show for fans celebrating her 25-year career. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will face the world’s strongest chess players at the Gibraltar International Chess Festival 2019 in the UK.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam was awarded more medals from the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, as athletes from Thailand and Malaysia tested positive for doping, 

The food market to serve the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival is bustling with various kinds of products to meet increasing public demand but also poses high risks of unsafe food or violations in food safety and hygiene.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People in Vietnam’s mountainous regions cook some of the finest food the country has to offer, with their different takes on smoked pork and buffalo particularly delightful.

Vietnamese people applying for Schengen visas to Germany and Portugal will be able to apply via application centres of the VFS Global Company as of February 20 in Hanoi and HCM City and March 25 in Da Nang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An English book on primate expert Tilo Nadler was published on Sunday, featuring the German’s extensive career in Vietnam.

The country’s largest city brims with things to do and explore, from motorbike tours of former Chinatown to incense-filled pagodas, underground war tunnels and a UNESCO-listed biosphere.

Quy Nhon Port Joint Stock Company in the central province of Binh Dinh has been fined VND60 million for repeatedly violating regulations on towage prices after the firm offered the service 30-40 per cent more expensive than regulated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Nguyen Van Phuong and his Romanian partner Nicholas David Ionel won their first Australian Open Junior Championship boys doubles match on January 21 in Melbourne.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A painting exhibition by Vietnamese and South Korean women opened yesterday in Hanoi, featuring the natural landscape of the two countries. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the Mekong Delta have had a bumper harvest of giant river prawns at good prices because of favourable weather conditions and high market demand.