What do young people think about the Lunar New Year (Tet)?

 Several commercial banks have in the early days of 2017 posted positive business performance for 2016, with profits much higher than the previous year.

 Vietnam’s hotel and resort market will see sustained or even accelerated growth in 2017, according to Alternaty, a real estate service company.

 The Vietnamese economy needs to take caution against external shocks this year due to the global economic uncertainties, a scholar has warned. 

 An exchange programme for foreign students in Vietnam to celebrate Lunar New Year was held by the Vietnam Students Association on January 15 at Hanoi University.

 Daisy gardens in flood-hit Phuoc Hoa commune in the south central province of Binh Dinh show no sign of blossoming due to long-term submerging, and with Tet just days away, flower growers’ hopes of a profitable holiday are fading.

 The University of Science under the Vietnam National University - Hanoi has become the first in Vietnam to undergo quality verification based on the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance standard.  

 The Dong Hanh Scholarship Fund in Singapore (Dong Hanh Singapore) on January 15 organised a Gala Dinner to raise scholarship funds for disadvantaged Vietnamese students.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked centrally-run agencies to create all favourable conditions for the capital city of Hanoi to develop its transport infrastructure to ease traffic 

 Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership

 A contest to design a logo for the 2017 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum announced its winner in Hanoi on January 16.

 The relations between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have been strengthened and developed in all areas, notably the economy, over the past years, said Vietnamese Ambassador to the RoK Pham Huu Chi.

 A senior Party official has said the visit to Vietnam by Deputy Speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly Gergely Gulyás shows the Hungarian people’s sentiments towards their Vietnamese peers.

 President Tran Dai Quang acknowledged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s role in and devotion to nurturing the Vietnam-Japan extensive strategic partnership at a meeting in Hanoi on January 16.

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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe have reached high consensus on major orientations and specific measures to push forward the bilateral extensive strategic partnership. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - At Bat Trang, you have an opportunity to make ceramic products as a gift for your relatives, friends or for souvenir. 

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