With up to 40,000 mentions among 1.8 million Instagram posts tagged from ships and ports around the world, Vietnam ranks in the global Top 15 of the most Instagrammed cruise destinations on SeaHub, a cruise deal site.

 For the past 30 years, a Pho vendor in Hanoi has been serving customers between 3-6 am.

HCM City authorities have asked the National Assembly and the government to help resolve capital difficulties for the city’s metro projects which have been at sluggish pace.

Farmers in Thanh Hoa Province are complaining that they have to give local state officials a part of the support money after their shrimp farms were destroyed in a 2017 flood.

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

 Scientists are calling for research on the impacts of microplastics on whales, sharks and rays that strain tiny food, like plankton, out of seawater.

 North Korea's head of state will go to Pyeongchang this week for the Winter Olympics, the most senior official to ever visit South Korea.

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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.

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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. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to have all students learn English since the first grade starting in the 2018-2019 academic year, 

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.

Many ready-to-wear brands in HCM City are offering ao dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) in different styles and patterns, satisfying young women who want beautiful outfits for Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

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.