VietNamNet Bridge – As the Lunar New Year (Tet) nears, residents in Ward 6 of Yen Dinh town, Hai Hau district in the northern province of Nam Dinh are hurrying to complete hundreds of longan cake batches from morning till midnight.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An increasing number of young Vietnamese couples are opting for Buddhist wedding ceremonies.

 Three boys drown in Phu Yen pond; 10,000 Mekong Delta households get electricity before Tet; Boat rescues fisherman from sea; Relocated families get drinking water supply; Nghe An opens tourist info centre

 Amongst many taboos and rituals connected with the Lunar New Year in Vietnam is xong dat , or “first-footing” as the Scots call it.

 Vietnam aims to send 90,000 guest workers abroad in 2015, deputy director of the Overseas Labour Management Department Tong Hai Nam told Thoi Bao Kinh Te Vietnam (Vietnam Economic Times).

 More than 75,000 tourists including 40,000 foreign arrivals have registered to visit the old imperial city of Hue during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet), according to the Thua Thien Hue province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

 Nguyen Thi Thu Mai of Viet Nam won a bronze medal at the 22nd Asian Track and Road Junior Cycling Championships, which ended last weekend in Thailand.

 Coach Phan Thanh Hung has admitted that FC Seoul were too strong for Ha Noi T&T during the Asian Football Confederation Champions League play-off match yesterday in Seoul.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in Dak To District's Tan Canh Commune claim they are forced to use polluted water pumped from the Poko River to water their coffee bushes.

 It's hard to find ancient wild peach branches on sale in the northern mountainous province of Son La, due to their overexploitation by the local people.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is expected to see rising remittances enter the property market, following the amended housing law that allows Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) to own a house in the country.

 About 275 traffic accidents occurred over five days of the Tet (Lunar New Year) vacation, killing 164 people and injuring 237.

 Vietnamese all over the world have organised plentiful activities to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), their most important festival in a year.

Prof. Dr . Nguyen Quoc Sy became an official member of the Electrical Sciences Academy of Russia after getting an absolute majority in a vote on February 17.

 Some 200 tourists arrived at Tien Sa port in central Da Nang city in the morning of February 19, the first day in the year of goat.

 Millions of people across Vietnam took to the streets in jubilant celebrations of the traditional Lunar New Year, which fell at midnight on February 18.

 The Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival is a special opportunity for foreigners living, working or just travelling in Vietnam to get a better understanding of the country’s rich cultural history and traditions.

  Tourists to the Mekong Delta province of An Giang now can enjoy the scenery of Mount Cam more easily as a cable car service launched on February 14 will carry them to the peak in just eight minutes. 

 When caught with a case of wanderlust, Vietnam’s Son Doong Cave is one of the few particular places that stand out among the crowd on this beautiful planet, the Huffington Post said on its website.

 Hang Luoc street in Hanoi is busy with a year-end market, which sells antique and imitation objects.