VietNamNet Bridge – Thomas Eugene Wilber was 12 years old when his father’s plane was shot down in Vietnam and taken prisoner.

 The telecom sector made up 35 per cent of the value of Vietnam’s 50 largest brands, followed by food (15 per cent) and banking (11 per cent).

ADB (Asian Development Bank) has predicted a 6.8 percent GDP growth rate for Vietnam in 2018, a figure which is much higher than the average growth rate in the region.

 Giang Mo is an adorable little village in Binh Thanh commune, Hoa Binh province. The village’s scenic mountain and traditional stilt houses of the Muong ethnic minority group make it a popular destination for tourists.

 2018 is likely to be a fiercely competitive one for real-estate companies in Ho Chi Minh City since scores of new projects are set to hit the market, analysts said.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue just approved the equitisation plan of state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group under which more than 11 per cent of the group’s chartered capital will be earmarked for domestic strategic partners, but not foreign ones.

 Up to 100 events will be held throughout 2018 in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh as part of the National Tourism Year.

The capital city of Hanoi at night is glittered in brilliant and colourful lights from streets and high-rise buildings.

 Hoa Phat exports 200,000 tonnes of steel, Agriculture contributes to country’s modernisation: PM, Food safety should be priority for local, export markets, BNP Paribas offloads entire stake in OCB

 Finance-banking, real estate-construction and consumer goods are three industries that gain the highest profitability in the securities market in 2017.

Although hundreds of thousands of university graduates fail to secure jobs, students and their families still hope to attend university at any cost—leaving vocational schools struggling to attract enough students to operate.

 Vietnam’s exports in 2017 were fruitful despite many difficulties caused by natural disasters and import markets. 

Sedge mats made by Xuan Duc village in Nam Dinh have been in presence of Vietnamese people lives throughout the course of history. However, the craft of making sedge mats in the village is on verge of extinction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After winning the Golden Ball award 2017, captain of V.League 1 champions Quang Nam, Dinh Thanh Trung says he and the national team aim to win the AFF Cup this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – You want to change VND100,000 into smaller denominations, so you pay VND150,000, a 150 per cent commission or “service charge.”

Skilled grafter Le Duc Giap from Thanh Oai district, Hanoi can earn hundreds of millions of Vietnam dong during the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) by selling pomelo trees which he has engrafted with up to 10 different varieties of fruit.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 2017, some 22 people died and 46 were injured each day due to traffic accidents nationwide.

The collection ‘The Beauty of Light’ is a gentle connection between two like-minded souls celebrating the beauty of light in daily life.

 The HCM City People’s Committee plans to kick off a Tet Flower Festival on February 10 in Tao Dan Park in District 1 and will open 130 Tet flower markets around the city.

 The Year of the Rooster has been a rollercoaster ride for foreign banks in Vietnam: one received a licence to expand, two trimmed down their business scopes, while others decided to divest their stake in domestic banks.