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Photos: Vietnam rings in New Year with firework, music extravaganzas

 Millions of people across Vietnam took to the streets in jubilant celebrations of the traditional Lunar New Year, which fell at midnight on February 18.

Foreigners’ feelings about Vietnamese Tet

 The Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival is a special opportunity for foreigners living, working or just travelling in Vietnam to get a better understanding of the country’s rich cultural history and traditions.

Cable car service to An Giang’s mountain peak launched

  Tourists to the Mekong Delta province of An Giang now can enjoy the scenery of Mount Cam more easily as a cable car service launched on February 14 will carry them to the peak in just eight minutes. 

Son Doong Cave: A top 10 lifetime trip

 When caught with a case of wanderlust, Vietnam’s Son Doong Cave is one of the few particular places that stand out among the crowd on this beautiful planet, the Huffington Post said on its website.

Year-end antique market in Hanoi old quarter

 Hang Luoc street in Hanoi is busy with a year-end market, which sells antique and imitation objects.

Meaning of New Year’s Eve in Vietnamese belief

 Tet, the Lunar New Year festival, is the most important holiday in Vietnam. As people believe Tet refreshes everything in their lives, they treasure the tradition of seeing off the old year and welcoming the new year.

Three footballers born in the year of Goat

 Nguyen Van Quyet, Tran Buu Ngoc and Duong Thanh Hao are three phenomenal Vietnamese football players who were born in the year of the Goat.

Vietnam to complete TV digitalization by 2020

 All cities and province across the country are scheduled to fully implement the TV digitalization programme by 2020, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication.

Hoi An to reopen ancient wells

  Hoi An ancient city, the central province of Quang Nam, plans to restore 80 ancient wells, most of them locate on the north bank of the De Vong River near the Thanh Ha pottery village.

Tomb-sweeping tradition in Vietnam

 Whenever the Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, normally from the 23rd of the lunar December to the New Year eve, Vietnamese families visit their ancestors’ tombs and clean gravesites.

Vietnam’s first quarter 2015 growth quickens

Vietnam's economic growth for the three months leading up to April 2015 will quicken to an annual rate of 5.4%, the National Financial Supervisory Commission (NFSC) forecast in a recently released report.

Government News

Party building is the main task for this year; Congratulations to new Prime Minister of Timor-Leste; Egypt, Vietnam foster all-sided cooperation; Wish of good health extended to Singaporean PM

President urges accelerating growth model renovation

President Truong Tan Sang has stressed the need to accelerate reforms, renovate growth models and facilitate economic restructuring to increase the competitiveness of the economy, boost rapid and sustainable development.

Vietnam to pursue loosener monetary policies in 2015

Vietnam has decided to loosen monetary policies in 2015 in an aim to hasten national economy recovery. However, the narrowing of the gap between the dong and US dollar interest rates will worsen the dollarization situation in Vietnam.

VN population growth presents challenges

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Tan, vice chief of the Ministry of Health's General Office for Population and Family Planning, spoke with Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam about solutions to problems created by demographic changes.

The seven most famous Vietnamese dishes

Pho, bun rieu cua, and bun cha are street food dishes that captivate thousands of international visitors. Here are the seven dishes and drinks that have made Vietnam an attractive spot on the culinary world map.

Sugar import quota up for debate

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tenders might be invited for determining the sugar import quota this year, instead of it being allocated as in the previous years, to ensure transparency.

Change of heart strengthens love and resolve

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Mau Duc walks briskly between the bikes in the parking lot of the Hue Central Hospital and lifts several to rearrange them.

National beach football team to be convened

 The national beach football team will be convened on February 25, ahead of their participation in the AFC Beach Football Championship in Doha, Qatar, from March 23 to 28.

Students have no time for play as life-skill lessons crowd the curriculum

VietNamNet Bridge – Educators have begun teaching teach life skills to students, but parents complain that the teachers do not know how to give instruction in such skills.