Hanoi has planned solutions to ease traffic congestion around the lunar new year holiday.

Around 25,000 fans holding national flags and wearing red colour T-shirts with yellow star flocked to Thong Nhat Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 10 to join an exchange with Vietnam’s U23 team on February 4.

Becamex Binh Duong beat Vasco da Gama of Brazil in the final at Go Dau Stadium on February 4 to take the International Football Tournament – Binh Duong Television (BTV) Cup.

If peach blossom is the symbol of Lunar New Year in the north, in the southern region it is apricot blossom. As Tet is nearing, apricot farmers in Thu Duc of HCMC are worried as their trees have already begun to flower early before the festival. 

A fair featuring the fast-coming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival was held in Ecopark urban area, the northern province of Hung Yen from February 2-4, drawing crowds of visitors and residents.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is expected to continue to increase rapidly in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

The Xang Khan festival of Thai ethnic group in the central province of Nghe An has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage element.

Visitors to the flower garden of Vo Ha Anh Tu in Hoc Mon district can see farmers hurriedly preparing for the Tet harvest. In bloom on the 14,000 sq.m farm are flowers of all kinds which are carefully pruned ahead of the festival.

Representatives from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have discussed measures to foster bilateral trade ties, towards a target of 100 billion USD in two-way trade by 2020. 

 The fourth national lion dragon dance championship kick-started in Le Huu Phuoc Park, Ninh Kieu district, the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho on February 3.

A detailed plan on logistics development, especially on transport connectivity, is needed to set goals for industrial production, agriculture and imports-exports, experts have urged.

Up to 1,650 property transactions were successful in Hanoi in January, up by 13.8 percent from December 2017, reported the Ministry of Construction’s Housing and Property Market Management Department.

An estimated 4.1 million passengers are forecast to go through  Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City during the 2018 Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, up 25 percent from the 2017 Tet.

Selling pressure is predicted to extend to this week’s trading, which may have negative impacts on the stock market, in the context of declining trade by foreign investors and unexpected movements in the US market.

Though observers have different views about the establishment of a ‘super committee’ to manage state capital and assets in enterprises, they agree that the current policy will come to an end.

Vietnam had a bumper year in attracting FDI (foreign direct investment) in 2017. The three coal-fired thermal power projects registered by Japanese investors had total capital of $7 billion.

Of the 102 medicinal plants used by Pako-Van Kieu ethnic people in the Central Region to treat diseases, Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoai has found 30 species containing antioxidants with the ability to kill cancer cells.

Vietnamese are the second largest community of expat workers in Japan, which employs 1.28 million foreign workers, just after China. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Wattay international airport in Laos’s capital city of Vientiane on the morning of February 4 for the 40th meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-government Committee to which he is the co-chair.

 Xoan Singing of the northern province of Phu Tho received a UNESCO certificate of an intangible cultural heritage of humanity at a ceremony at Lai Len Shrine, Viet Tri city, Phu Tho on February 3.