VietNamNet Bridge – "Earning a lot of money is always the goal of any farmer who migrates from rural areas to the cities," said La Trong Thuy, a migrant labourer from northern Nam Dinh Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – The move by foreign investors to sell stocks in big quantities should be seen simply as a “technical transaction”, while it does not mean that the foreign investment funds are trying to withdraw form Vietnam.

Always heading towards the homeland, in recent years, more and more overseas Vietnamese intellectuals and scientists want to return to Vietnam to contribute their efforts to the development of the country.

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HCM City's annual Flower Street on Nguyen Hue opened to visitors last night, with spectacular displays of fresh flowers and ornamental trees to welcome the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that begins this weekend.

Japanese-Vietnamese contemporary dance artist Michiyo Pham Nga will perform in Ha Noi on Sunday to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Despite upgrading their networks, telecom companies are still calling on subscribers to use 3G to avoid network congestion during Tet next week.

Officials warn that bird flu A/H5N1 could return in a more complex form, given the current cold weather and massive transportation of poultry before and during the Lunar New Year, after a teenager in Kien Giang Province died of the virus on Monday.

China’s unilateral fishing ban in the East Sea violates Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, and its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zones and continental shelf.

VietNamNet Bridge – Travelling back and forth along busy Dinh Liet Street, not many people catch a glimpse of the old garden house – the oldest of its type still standing in Ha Noi. Follow the small lane through a moss-covered arch,

The money remitted by overseas Vietnamese (Viet Kieu) to Vietnam has been poured into the real estate sector.

The Construction Ministry has proposed to the Prime Minister that measures must be taken to control capital flows into the property market to prevent speculation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Less migrant workers can afford to go home this Tet for their year-end reunion with their families because of high inflation, decreased incomes and increased transportation fees.

The Saigon River has a host of tributaries, of which many have remained heavily polluted but some have been cleaned up, allowing fish to return.

VietNamNet Bridge – About 1,500 Vietnamese, including overseas Vietnamese, have booked Lunar New Year or Tet tours with Saigontourist Travel Service Co. to take a closer look at pre-Tet activities around the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is a mix of old and new customs and ideas, especially at holiday time. It's usual at this time of year for everyone to get a little more money. This is either to reward them for hard work over the past year

Professor Nguyen Lan Dung, a well known Vietnamese scientists, met with scientists at the second congress of the Scientific Association of human resources development in Vietnam in January and shared stories about how to use talents.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will take part at the Southeast Asian Table Tennis Championship in Thailand without key member Doan Kien Quoc, who has decided to make way for younger table tennis talent.

British researchers have uncovered a gene which plays a key role in the development of oesophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet), according to a study published online Thursday in American Journal of Human Genetics.

VietNamNet recalls the suggestions which were considered as the oddest ones in 2011. They were also the most objectionable proposals.