The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on February 5 the top ten events of the sector in 2014 as follows:

 Migratory birds may be spreading viruses that cause bird flu around the world, say scientists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training should place school counsellors on the payroll to motivate them more, experts said at a recent workshop.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Paying a visit to traditional craft villages such as  banh chung, peach and pomelo villages, you will feel the atmosphere of the lunar New Year (Tet holiday) in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Incoming remittances last year stood at around US$12 billion with 46% of it going to production and business operations, nearly 36% to expenses and the remainder to savings and health services,

 HCMC will restrict spending on public autos, seminars, meetings, groundbreaking ceremonies and overseas business trips for its officials as one of the measures to better manage the State budget and public assets at agencies.

Old Quarter exhibit recalls Hanoi's rich past; Chef club debuts in central city; Spring festival shines in Hanoi; Hanoi welcomes OVs returning home for TET; “What do you know about Vietnam” contest 2015

Ha Noi to get disabled taxi service; Chicken pox breaks out in preschool in HCMC; Electrical fault caused tourist boat fire; KOICA grants $30m ODA for central region; Severe cold weather blankets northern areas

HAGL's first Australian beef products introduced to HCM City market; Growth expected in textile, footwear export turnover;

  VietNamNet Bridge – The Gia Lam District police in Ha Noi on Thursday caught three vessels in the act of stealing sand from a section of the Duong River.

Poverty eradication remains the overarching goal of global development efforts, Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent representative of Vietnam at the United Nations said at a session of the UN Economic and Social Council.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam could see a trade deficit in 2015 after three consecutive years of a surplus, as prices for crude oil, which Vietnam exports, have plummeted.

  Scientists have discovered two new species of beech, scientifically known as Castanopsis grandicicatricata and Castanopsis multiporcata, in Xuan Son National Park in the northern Phu Tho Province.

 About 10 panels carrying the images of the most important new Italian architecture will be displayed in an exhibition that opens tonight in downtown Ha Noi.

Rescuers on Friday morning recovered four more bodies from the Keelung River, raising the death toll from Wednesday's TransAsia Airways passenger plane crash to 35.

A conference was held in Hanoi on February 5 to officially release the Vietnam Coalition for Education for All, the fifth non-government organisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training to implement educational goals.

 A set of stamps featuring Vietnam’s symbolic architectural heritage and landscapes was unveiled in Paris, France, on February 5.

A seminar reviewing the global prospect of biotech/genetically modified crops in 2014 took place on Tuesday in Hanoi to present the latest annual report on GM crop usage situation globally in 2014.

VietNamNet Bridge – The State Securities Commission (SSC) is revising Decree 58/2012 guiding the Securities Law to increase the foreign ownership limit at listed enterprises,

Several weeks ahead of the lunar New Year festival, the Poison Control Center in Hanoi received dozens of alcohol poisoning patients, up 30% compared to the same period last year. Some of the patients became blind from drinking fake alcohol.