Vietnam Airlines offers cheap tickets for domestic routes, Vietnam's literacy rate reaches 97.3 percent, Vietnam promotes tourism in Norway, 8 million ethnics to benefit from improved land management project

VietNamNet Bridge – For 86 years since its establishment on February 3, 1930, the Communist Party of Vietnam has held 11 national congresses. The first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam is Mr. Tran Phu.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's rice exports this year excluding border trade are expected to remain at last year's 6.5 million tonnes, according to the Viet Nam Food Association.

  Popular German jazz artist Timo Vollbrecht and his band Fly Magic will put on a concert at the HCMC Conservatory of Music in District 1 on Saturday night.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi may ban private vehicles from the central areas and streets, as well as issue limitations on the registration of new vehicles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities may never be able to find transfer pricing evidence from foreign animal feed production firms in Vietnam, due to the complicated nature of feed composition.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thailand’s SCG will bring SCG MuangThong United, a football club of the Thai Premiere League, to Vietnam for friendly matches and training activities as part of the “SCG Muangthong ASEAN Tour 2016” program.

 Midfielder Danny van Bakel, who is playing for FLC Thanh Hoa, has become a Vietnamese citizen after his application was approved early this week.

The Korean Exchange (KRX), the operator of Korea’s Securities and Derivatives Markets, said it had set up a working group of financial and legal experts to attract Vietnamese enterprises to the KRX.

 Vietnam and Japan will work together in UN peacekeeping operations as agreed in the minutes of the two countries’ ground staff officers’ third consultation.

 Nguyen The Thao, former Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, received the “Bene Merito” Order, granted by Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on January 19 for his contributions to the growing friendship between Poland and Vietnam.

 Up to 1,510 delegates to the 12th National Party Congress met in a preparatory session at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi in the morning of January 20.

 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued guidelines for doctors caring for pregnant women who might have been exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne infection that can cause brain damage in a developing fetus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. Nguyen Le Quoc Anh, Director of Strategy and Bank Development, will temporarily replace Mr. Murat Yuldashev as the CEO of the Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Joel Leroy, a world-famous French laparoscopic expert, said that Vietnamese US$2 billion a year on medical treatment abroad.

On New Year's Eve, Hanoi will hold firework displays at 31 places, including six places with high-range performances and 25 places with lower-range performances.

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may be signed on February 4 in New Zealand, according to Ms. Nguyen Quynh Nga, Deputy Director of the Multilateral Trade Policy Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

 Doctors tend to get less aggressive care before death than the average person, a new study finds.

 Back in 2008, with gas prices averaging nearly $4 a gallon, President Barack Obama set a goal of getting one million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One year after hospitals in Viet Nam started implementing surrogacy technologies, the first surrogate babies will be born this month at the Ha Noi-based Central Maternity Hospital and the HCM City-based Tu Du Hospital.