VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines (VNA) initially selected 19 investors as possible strategic investors, with 17 turning away, two showing interest, and one staying. 

Educators who are owners of education establishments in Hanoi and HCMC have complained about irrational behavior and attitudes of parents. The following are some of their concerns:

 Behind Vietnam’s strong economic growth and widespread national development, there is an engine of increasing foreign direct investment.

 Two Vietnamese mothers in France have established a group called “The Vietnamese Kite” to teach Vietnamese children about their fatherland and preserve Vietnamese culture.

Vietnam was the country with the most to gain from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Increased market access would have supported an export manufacturing boom and outsized GDP growth.  

 The broadcasting of analogue terrestrial television will be ceased in several northern and southern localities before July 1.

 Residents in Trinh Xa village, Yen Ninh commune, Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa central province flock to a spring festival to make traditoinal cakes to offer to their tutelary god.

 Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in January sees low increase

 Over 60 percent of Japanese firms in Vietnam have plans to expand their business, according to Atsusuke Kawada, head of the Hanoi office of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).

 Hanoi is willing to cooperate with French-speaking cities to organise the meeting of the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) Executive Board.

Construction of a new terminal at Da Nang International Airport is scheduled to be completed in late March to serve foreign passengers, especially delegates to meetings held within the framework of the APEC Year 2017. 

The Vietnamese National Assembly commits to working closely with the IPU and its member parliaments to realise sustainable development goals in the spirit of the Hanoi Declaration adopted at the 132nd IPU-132 in Vietnam in 2015.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has unveiled a draft decree on State monopoly over production and supply of goods and services in 20 areas in the country.

 The Department of Education and Training has lately sent its document to senior high school managers, asking schoolgirls to wear Ao dai in schools.

 Several auto firms have adjusted down prices of completely-built-up (CBU) autos imported from regional markets following an import tax reduction this year in line with a roadmap of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA).

 It is not necessary to take a flight to Thailand to admire the land of golden pagodas, as Vietnam has a similar region known for its ancient golden pagodas - Tra Vinh, a province in the Mekong Delta.

 Eight members of the G8 Group, who are also members of the Vietnam Fine Art Association and the HCMC Fine Art Association will have a joint exhibition from February 24 to March 2 at the Museum of Fine Arts of Vietnam in Hanoi.

 Rhetoric has come full circle in the dispute over the East Sea but can the Philippines, the current chair of Asean and a claimant state, deliver a peaceful solution for the area?

 VietNamNet Bridge – In all major Vietnamese cities, one dish become ubiquitous after emerging as a new trend a decade or so ago – the hotpot.

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