VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam's national futsal team lost to Croatia 3-8 in their third friendly match during a training course in Croatia on Thursday, Feb 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vacationers to the central city of Da Nang will have chance to enjoy an aerial view of famous tourist sites of the city as a helicopter tour will start as early as in March.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam spent nearly $603 million on 15.6 tons of gold in the fourth quarter of 2014, down 13% compared to the same period in 2013, falling by two spots to ninth in the world for gold sales.

 Inspectors from the Ministry of Information and Communications have fined the Nguoi Cao Tuoi (The Elderly) newspaper 699.7 million VND for violating the Press Law and other legal regulations.

Da Nang will cancel all firework shows in the city on the occasion of the lunar New Year to show respect to Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs Nguyen Ba Thanh, a native of Da Nang who passed away on February 13.

Visitors from the UK, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Korea participated in a Chung cake (square glutinous rice cake) wrapping festival on January 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A latest documentary on the biggest cave known in the world—Son Doong—located in the central province of Quang Binh, will be broadcast on VTV1 on February 14.

 The Vietnam men’s national football team is starting the New Lunar Year out in the number one spot in Southeast Asia in the latest FIFA rankings for February.

The People’s Court of Dong Nai on February 12 announced the verdicts for three defendants facing charges of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State.

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VietNamNet Bridge - They are football players and football coaches who married Vietnamese women and live in Vietnam.

 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conveyed his New Year wishes to all Vietnamese when talking over the phone with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung on February 13.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed bilateral ties over the phone on February 12.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Slovakia Ho Dac Minh Nguyet held a reception in Bratislava on February 12 to mark the 65th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh talked to Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on the phone on February 13 on measures to enhance bilateral ties in 2015, the year marking the 65th anniversary of Vietnam-China diplomatic ties.

HCMC will have eight fireworks displays to ring in the Year of the Goat on February 18 and three flower markets which will take place from now until February 18.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Traders are flocking to the districts of Tu Nghia and Mo Duc in Quang Ngai Province, where households are planting chrysanthemums in central Vietnam to serve the Tet market.

Vietnamese engineers have the capacity to create good computer microchips at competitive prices, but face challenges launching their products on the market because of the perception that “made-in-Vietnam” means low quality.

 The annual Lunar New Year (TET) calligraphy exhibition, which has taken place for over a decade along Van Mieu Street in the Dong Da district of Hanoi, has been relocated this year to the Temple of Literature.

Experts believe that foreign investors want to develop oil refinery projects because they can see the geopolitical and economic advantage in a Vietnam location.