VietNamNet Bridge – Doan Truong Loi of Phu Yen triumphed in the professional category of the National Motor Racing Championship, which concluded in the southern province of Can Tho on Monday.

International support is of great importance to Vietnam’s national liberation struggle and development.

 A rising number of pet dogs dressed in colourful costumes are being walked in the pedestrian streets around the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi in the first days of the Year of the dog.

 Vietnamese people spent up to VND409 billion (USD18 million) on importing flowers and bonsai trees for this year’s lunar new year, according to the General Department of Customs.

 State-owned Hanoi Trade Corporation (Hapro), the owner of several golden land plots in the capital, will conduct its IPO on March 30, according to information published by the Hanoi Stock Exchange.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed Decision 213/QD-TTg approving a plan to accelerate bilateral trade and investment ties between Vietnam and its strategic and key partners.

 State employees and workers will return to work on February after a week-long lunar new year (Tet) holiday.

Nguyen Van Huyen from the northern province of Hai Duong could not return to Hanoi on Monday morning as planned because he was unable to get a taxi.

 Thailand’s biggest solar energy company, Superblock Pcl, plans to invest 56 billion baht (USD1.76 billion) to install 700 megawatts (MW) of wind farms in Vietnam.

 A total of 19,062 babies were born during the Lunar New Year holiday from February 14 to 20, according to Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Medical Service Administration under the Health Ministry.

 No traffic accidents involving coaches and ships were recorded during the traditional Lunar New Year festival from February 14-20, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee. 

Many members of the European Parliament have urged acceleration of the completion of documents and relevant procedures for the signing and ratification of the Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and the EU (EVFTA).

The cultivation sector aims to gross over 21 billion USD in export turnover in 2018, representing a year-on-year rise of 2.2-2.3 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Viet Nam’s stock market is expected to rise further after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday and even throughout 2018, boosted by positive macro economic development as well as support of foreign traders.

 The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Province of Kien Giang is soliciting investment in industrial parks and other projects as a means to boost socio-economic development.

With large numbers of people returning home to HCM City after Tết (the Lunar New Year), highways in the Cửu Long (Mekong) delta are clogged with vehicles.

 Viet Nam’s No 1 long jumper Bui Thi Thu Thao has had an exciting New Year.

About 1,700ha of custard apples are growing in Lục Nam District in the northern province of Bắc Giang. After Tết (Lunar New Year festival), growers will have to spray pesticides by hand  to prevent spider mites from damaging the crop.

 HCM City authorities hope to have at least 15-20 per cent of school children travelling by bus by 2020.

VietNamNet Bridge - Illegal loggers have been using motor saws in Yok Don National Park and felling dozens of precious trees for a long time. But no agency has taken responsibility for the deforestation.