VietNamNet Bridge - The Prime Minister has requested cabinet members and localities intensify management over the market to ensure prices are stable, especially during the traditional New Year (Tet) festival.

VietNamNet Bridge - As they catch the last bus home for the Tet holidays, migrant labourers like Huan, a porter at Ha Noi's Long Bien Market, dream of sitting around at the family dinner on New Year's Eve.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam borrowed an additional $1 billion in 2010, raising its total foreign debt to $29 billion, according to the Ministry of Finance.

VietNamNet Bridge - District and commune leaders will be held responsible if firecrackers and flaming sky lanterns are detected in their localities during Tet.

About 800 overseas Vietnamese from different countries and territories yesterday gathered at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel to join the 2011 Homeland Spring programme to welcome the traditional lunar New Year festival, the Year of the Cat.

VietNamNet Bridge – The lotus is honored by artisans at the Spring Flower and Drinking for Tet Festival and the Exhibition to collect people’s opinion about national flower, national costumes and national wine in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Workers are trying their best to decorate Nguyen Hue Road and turn it into the flower street.

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi began visiting the annual spring flower festival that opened Wednesday.

Lunar New Year (Tet holiday) is the chance for rich people to show their wealth through displaying unusual things at home. Besides unique ornamental trees and ornamental fish, some people buy special ceramic items to display.

The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) has said it will compel all those factories emitting smoke at industrial parks (IP) and export processing zones (EPZ) to build treatment facilities by the year-end.

VietNamNet Bridge - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Belgium has removed Vietnamese tra fish from the WWF’s red guidebook in 2010-2011, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said on January 29. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Joining associations will help wood processing plants effectively address current impediments derived from material and labour scarcity.

VietNamNet Bridge – The deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Directorate of Forestry, Ha Cong Tuan, spoke to Dai Doan Ket (Great Unity) newspaper about illegal logging activities.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam plans to test the Wolbachia bacterium's effectiveness in eradicating mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.

VietNamNet Bridge – The special garden of a veteran surprised many people. In a small alley on Au Co Road, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, hundreds of bonsais are displayed.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City is preparing for traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) with music shows, charity activities, art exhibitions and calligraphy markets.

VietNamNet Bridge - About 30 percent of the pork tested in Ho Chi Minh City was found tainted with clenbuterol, which was fed to pigs to keep their meat lean but endangers the health of pork consumers.

VietNamNet Bridge – If Vietnamese wooden furniture enterprises join forces with each other to develop in groups, they will be able to settle the current problems, including the scarcity of materials and the labor shortage.

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VietNamNet Bridge - On the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet), Party, State and Government leaders paid Tet visits to various localities across the country.