Football legend Dwight Yorke in his visit to Vietnam on Sunday said Vietnamese players should leave the country to improve their abilities.

 The second session of the Vietnam-UK Working Group on Trade and Investment Dialogue took place in London from January 14-15, focusing on orientations for cooperation after the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit).

 Fireworks will light up the Hanoi sky to welcome the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 5 this year, at 30 display venues.

 Two-way trade between Vietnam and India experienced a year-on-year rise of 40 percent to reach 10.69 billion USD in 2018, according to statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs. 

 An entrenched cash using habit and safety concerns are the main reasons for people not to switch to non-cash payments, a workshop heard in Ho Chi Minh City on January 15.

VietNamNet Bridge - A survey has found that 52 percent of Vietnamese consumers feel overloaded with information, according to Doan Duy Khoi of Nielsen Vietnam.

 As many as 1,900 racers from 39 countries will join the Vietnam Trail Marathon in Moc Chau, in the northern mountainous province of Son La on January 19. 

 The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) stands ready to share its experience in dealing with specific topics regarding question and answer and inspection work with its Lao counterpart, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said. 

 The Italian Embassy in Hanoi will organise the Italian Design Day, themed ‘future city’, and a seminar on cultural preservation on March 22, according to Italian Ambassador Antonio Alessandro. 

 A carnival themed “Con duong tho cam” (Brocade road) took place in Gia Nghia town, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on January 16. 

 Bonuses for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) at most companies nationwide are worth one month’s salary on average, which is around 6.3 million VND (271.68 USD), or 11.4 percent higher than 2018.

 Vietnam will give everything to earn the full three points in the last group match with Yemen, coach Park Hang-seo told a press conference prior to the game at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, on January 15.

 Reports from Kaspersky Lab in Vietnam show that in the beginning of 2019, Vietnamese companies are actively investing in information security (IS), especially related to Business-to-Business (B2B) type.

VietNamNet Bridge - Steel, fiber, household-use products and electronics in Vietnam are vulnerable to anti-dumping and anti-countervailing duties imposed by other countries. 

 Police in Ho Chi Minh City will continue adopting new technologies to reduce crime in 2019.

Many peach trees have begun to grow along Lac Long Quan road in Tay Ho district, Hanoi, signaling the approach of the Lunar New Year festival (Tet).

 Online commerce in Vietnam has never seen such a bloom as it is now. 

 As Tet (lunar New Year) festival is approaching, those who love traditional values can easily enjoy bright-coloured Kim Hoang folk paintings and lively applications of the traditional genre of painting in contemporary life. 

 As Netflix is taking the cinema industry by storm across the world, it cannot take over Vietnam, despite being launched for three years.

 Dao Ngoc Thanh, CEO of Vihajico, the investor of Ecopark, and representative of An Quy Hung Co., Ltd., was elected as chairman of Vinaconex.