Music reporters gathered in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to select the nominees for the annual musical awards by the Vietnam News Agency’s The Thao & Van Hoa (Culture & Sport) newspaper.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a meeting with the Vietnam-Laos Cooperation Committee, relevant ministries and sectors on January 13 to discuss the implementation of the cooperation agreement with Laos last year and plans for 2018.

 Mr. David Cruickshank, Deloitte Global Chairman, discusses what’s needed for Vietnam to move forward in global trade and investment.

 Many Vietnamese tourists prefer travelling overseas, mainly to Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet, and the number of buyers of outbound tours has increased by 15-30% compared to last Tet.

VietNamNet Bridge - 2017 was the year the government demonstrated strong determination to support the development of enterprises. 

Chu Ngoc Anh, Minister of Science and Technology, talks to Viet Nam News Agency about advantages that the fourth industrial revolution presents to the country and steps that need to be taken to tap them.

Naval soldiers got on board for their mission in Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago as Tet (Lunar New Year) is approaching, all showing their determination to fulfill their tasks.

 Foreign investors will be given the go-ahead to set up logistics companies in Vietnam, but with conditions on ownership and services, according to Government Decree 163 on logistics services which will come into force on February 20.

Vietnam Airlines’ equitization now seems more likely to actually go ahead than it ever has previously.

 Around one-fourth of workers participating in a survey conducted by executive recruitment service provider Navigos Search said they would quit their jobs if they receive no bonuses for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet.

 Property market sees increase of buyers in 2017

More than 200 inland ports in HCMC will be shut down this year due to the expiration of their operating licenses, which will adversely affect inland waterway transport, according to the municipal Transport Department. 

 The number of apartments sold in HCMC reached roughly 41,000 units last year, almost double that of Hanoi City at 21,000 units, according to the Vietnam Association of Realtors.

The bar is high, but fruit and vegetable exports are an area of particular potential for Vietnam.

 Not much attention is paid to investments from Sweden despite many of its enterprises having a long-term presence in Vietnam and many others planning to come.

HCM City-based poet Nguyen Phong Viet has become a publishing phenomenon after selling a total of 120,000 copies of poetry collections. Now he has released 5,000 copies of a new collection titled Sao Phai Dau Den Nhu Vay

 Despite historical ups and downs throughout the village’s 500-year history, Ma Chau villagers in Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province, have exerted every effort to keep their traditional silk weaving art alive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The climate in the valley of Muong Phang in the mountainous Dien Bien Province is no longer as it was over previous centuries. But the change has brought some benefits to local farmers.

Hanoi seems to be warmer with beautiful peach blossoms and kumquat trees.

After a hard day’s work, labourers in the lead recycling industrial area of Chi Dao Commune in northern Hung Yen Province are required to leave their contaminated clothes at work, bathe and then change into clean clothes