The ancient town of Hoi An inaugurates a ‘Spring Festival Fair' at the junction of Nguyen Hue and Tran Hung Dao, near Hoi An Market, today.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung accepted the proposal of the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (SBIC) to sell 70 per cent of Damen Song Cam Shipyard to the Netherlands' Damen Shipyards Group.

 The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has issued a special wanted notice as part of its global hunt for a Vietnamese man named Nguyen Quoc Tuan.

 The People's Committee of HCM City has approved a five-year plan to promote cultivation of organic and safe vegetables.

Suntory Pepsico Vietnam has not given any official answer to the question about the quality of Oo Long tea allegedly made of materials from China. The Food Safety Department stated that the company will have to give an explanation this week.

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VietNamNet Bridge - Parents and educators cannot agree about whether to keep students at home on cold days.

Beautiful bank officers and luxury rooms with air conditioners will no longer be attractive to Vietnamese customers in the future, when they can stay at home and make transactions through e-banking.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) has warned that the underground water levels in coastal provinces and cities from Hai Phong City in the north to Ca Mau province in the south have been decreasing dramatically.

In his address at the 12th National Party Congress, Bui Quang Vinh, Minister of Planning and Investment, stressed the need for Viet Nam to speed up its institutional reform toward a prosperous, creative, equal and democratic nation.

After being temporarily moved to Ham Nghi Boulevard last year pending the upgrade of Nguyen Hue Boulevard into a pedestrian square, the flower street for the upcoming Lunar New Year will be back to its original place.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will put the use of the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation from the third quarter of this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite a lot of unknowns and current bad performance, analysts still believe a 7-12 percent increase of the VN Index can be reached in 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will have various advantages in exporting rice this year though it may have to compete with Thai rice in the global export market when Thailand sells rice at stock.

 Dong Ho folk painting artisans in the Song Ho village of Thuan Thanh district, the northern province of Bac Ninh have made the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival more colourful with the centuries-old art form they are pursuing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year online shopping, particularly shopping through Facebook, has been very popular in Vietnam, especially among office employees.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There were 29 foreign markets generating export revenue of more than US$1 billion each for Vietnam last year, according to the General Department of Customs.

 Ha Noi T&T's young players will play Kitchee Sport Club of Hong Kong in the second preliminary round of the AFC Champions League today at Hang Day Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge – New policies include regulations on re-arrangement of agriculture companies, sanctions against irresponsible cadres and public employees, foreign langue teaching, technology transfer, banking system safety.  

  Events in Vietnam's major cities from February 1 to 28. Daily updated