The Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) is a golden opportunity for foreigners living, working and touring this time of year to gain a better understanding of the country’s customs, traditions, and people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tran Temple Festival will open in the northern Thai Binh Province from the 13th to the 16th of the first lunar month, or February 20 to 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Banyan trees hundreds of years old in Hanoi lining the roads are seen as symbols of the soul of the local people.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has abundant agricultural resources, but its experts continue to argue about what farm produce would earn big money.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung participated in an array of significant diplomatic activities in 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge - On the Peak of Pha Quen Mountain in Thanh Hoa province, local people have discovered a cave with ancient coffins inside. They call it Hang Ma (Cave of Ghost).

 With over 1,000 years of history, Hanoi has been Vietnam’s centre of Buddhism for centuries.

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 Pen-brush opening tradition enacted in localities, Vietnamese regional Tet food featured in Da Nang, Wildfire at Hoang Lien National Park successfully controlled, Over 53,000 people go through Noi Bai airport during four Tet days

 Though there is no sign yet of the price "fever" that periodically marks the Vietnamese property market or a bubble, the market remains a hot topic for analysts and the media.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Women's Association leader encourages women to be kind and confident in everything they do.

 Many private garbage collectors in HCM City are falling on hard times due to a citywide ban on outdated and dilapidated garbage carts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Ba Hai is Viet Nam's first inventor of haptic eyes which serves Vietnamese and foreigners who suffer from varying degrees of blindness.

A senior US security official said that President Barack Obama will spend time to discuss the recent developments in the East Sea with ASEAN leaders at the US-ASEAN Summit in the US this week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Instead of ‘sitting and waiting for the worst to come’, experts say Vietnam should think of growing other crops instead of relying on rice.

 Hoa is no longer VPF official, Thuan chooses Khanh Hoa, Viet Nam defeats China in friendly, Liem drops four steps in February FIDE rankings, Quang Ninh Coal ink contract with defender Hien

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 40 pangolins have died because of asthenia caused by poor eating in a non-natural environment. Only 20 remain stay alive.

 The Con Son-Kiep Bac 2016 Spring Festival will officially open in the northern province of Hai Duong on February 23 (the 16th day of the first lunar month).

Unlike in previous years, farmers in Lam Dong, which is being dubbed as the country’s tea growing kingdom, find themselves in a critical stage as their products cannot find buyers.

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