The central province of Thua Thien Hue will focus on developing four tourism products in preparation for the National Tourism Year 2012.

 “It is good news that Vietnam’s national economy is recovering after a downturn, but I don’t think that the recent achievements are because we have successfully fixed the problems of the economy”, noted a senior expert.

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of new born babies in HCM City in the first days of the new lunar year increased over the same period last year because the Year of Cat is considered a lucky year, doctors say.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thu Duc District and District 9 have become the first two districts in HCM City to allocate police in each ward to deal with the recent series of incidents involving nails being scattered onto streets.

Spaniard Guim Teruel and his Vietnamese wife Nguyen Thuy Anh will make a tour around the world on solar bicycle, said the Spanish embassy in Hanoi on February 14.

VietNamNet Bridge – In rainy and cold weather, thousands of people through Thua Thien-Hue province went to Tam Giang lagoon to attend a boat race between nine teams on February 14.

Apple is reportedly designing a smaller iPhone in a bid to more directly challenge Google's Android-powered handsets.

VietnamNet Bridge – Many strange hairstyles have appeared at school in Hanoi after Tet. Educators have expressed their worries about the school environment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Specific regulations on building housing in rural areas remain unavailable despite several policies on housing the State has adopted over the past years, industry insiders say.

VietNamNet Bridge - An anonymous man has promised to donate US$53,000 to the Vietnamese Writers’ Association for poetry-related activities.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to website boblinks.com, the US music legend Bob Dylan will sing at an international university in HCM City on April 10.

VietNamNet Bridge – A hill named Dreamlike in the resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is the home to odd animals like a buffalo with six horns, a pig with five legs, a duck with four wings.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Michael Michalak finished his 3.5-year term in Vietnam and returned to the US on February 14.

Boeing on Sunday unveiled 747-8 Intercontinental, a new wide-body jet airliner touted by the U.S. aviation giant as the only airplane in the 400-500 seat market.

Vietnam is importing Chinese products in big quantity, which has raised worries about the trade deficit with China. However, if Vietnam can invite Chinese manufacturers to set up production bases in Vietnam, its imports would decrease.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government has agreed to raise the cost of electricity from next month, the third March in a row the price has been adjusted in Viet Nam.

Over 10,000 cases of food poisoning were reported during the Tet season (lunar New Year) in the country, according to statistics by relevant health agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Roughly 2.38 billion litres of beer was consumed in 2010, an increase of 19.8 per cent compared with 2009.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 90,000 people visited Yen Tu, the “kingdom of Buddhism” in Vietnam, on the first day of the Yen Tu Pagoda Spring Festival, February 12. 

VietnamNet Bridge – The US dollar in Vietnam has a green side when it is transacted among banks, a red side when it is in hands of management agencies, and a black side when it is traded on the black market.