Hanoi’s first urban railway running from Cat Linh to Ha Dong will be inaugurated in late December this year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several foreign businesses are attentive to recent developments and want to shift their investments into Viet Nam as they see big opportunities of big Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Free Trade Agreements

 VietNamNet Bridge – The "Kong: Skull Island" film crew arrived in Vietnam on February 18 to shoot some scenes in Ninh Binh, Ha Long Bay and Son Doong Cave.

A “selfie” photo featuring Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and other ASEAN leaders at the US-ASEAN Summit in California posted on the Facebook page of the Singaporean PM attracts special attention of the online community.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four police officers in Quang Ninh province have been suspended from work for clarifying their responsibilities in a special case: a female prisoner under death penalty is pregnant.

 President Truong Tan Sang underlined the continuing need to protect the country’s sovereignty during his visit to Lang Son City Cemetery, a message underlined by pupils on Phu Quoc Island.

 Greed and mob mentality have created problems with overcrowding at local pagodas and festivals during spring in recent years, according to cultural experts.

 In recent years, Vietnam has been recognized internationally as one of the world’s top 10 software outsourcing countries and recognized by UNESCO as one of four nations producing vaccine to treat Rota virus.

 Vietnamese track-and-field athletes are trying to secure berths for the Brazil Olympics via the 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships that began in Doha, Qatar, on February 19.

 VN Customs ranking 8th in customs statistics, Vietnam stock sector has foundation day, Central bank approves company-bank merger, Vietnam's consumer confidence improves: Nielsen, Hai Phong seeks to attract more investors

 PM approves programme to prevent child injuries, More CNG buses to run in HCMC, Da Nang's online facility to receive public complaints, ASEAN-Korea Centre’s former chief acknowledged with insignia

 Dozens of students at Phan Huy Chu High School in Hanoi were banned from classes on February 16 just because of their hair colour. The students were penalised and forced to do cleaning work instead.

 The Prime Minister’s Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform gathered on February 19 to review its operation in 2015, and set forth tasks for 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New Zealand Wine & Food Festival will return to the RMIT University campus in HCMC’s District 7 on March 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A sofa and dressing table topped with roses were part of a stunning stage backdrop for a romantic play staged recently in HCM City by the The Gioi Tre (The World of Youth) Drama Troupe.

Thai conglomerates are running a race to buy Big C supermarkets in Vietnam and Thailand from French Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Commercial Division in Thailand.

 Tourists visiting Sin Suoi Ho village in mountainous Lai Chau Province's Phong Tho District will see beautiful cymbidium orchids in nearly 100 ethnic Mong households.

  Global Beauties, an online magazine for international beauty, has announced that Vietnam was ranked 24, up from its previous 35, in the latest list of global beauty.

 Photography Life Magazine recently posted 20 fascinating images of Vietnam taken by four photographers on its website in a piece entitled Visions of Vietnam – 4 Photographers, 4 Styles.

 The Ministry of Transport is preparing procedures for construction of more expressways in central Vietnam, including one connecting the coastal cities of Nha Trang and Phan Thiet.