Topless female Tarzan causes traffic jam in Vietnam; Nearly 50,000 students join 2015 spring volunteer campaign; Flight time changed due to upgrade work at Pleiku Airport; Aphrodisiac pills seized in Hanoi

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Several weeks before the lunar New Year, the ginger jam-producing village in Hai Chanh commune in Quang Tri province has entered its busiest time of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A movie on Nguyen Ai Quoc's life in Thailand will be premiered to launch a nationwide film week to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the Viet Nam Communist Party.

VietNamNet Bridge – A headmaster at a HCM City school threatened to expel a student from school for missing a music performance. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has told State-owned enterprise (SOEs) to divest a total of more than VND14.5 trillion (some US$679.5 million) from non-core business operations this year.

It is unrealistic to expect Greece to repay its huge debt in full, the chief economics spokesman for the victorious Syriza party has told the BBC.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Stone lions used by the Chinese to watch over tombs can be found in many temples in Vietnam.

 Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh stressed that building a strong ASEAN community is important to its members as it will step up their regional and global integration.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The prestigious seafood journal, “Seafood Intrafish”, has announced the Top 100 most influential people in the fisheries sector worldwide, with two Vietnamese names.

HCMC opens photo exhibition on wild birds; Researcher to speak on late writer Son Nam; Opera depicts life of national hero; Artist Anu performs for Australia Day

New York City and other areas in the north-east US have shut down as Winter Storm Juno is expected to dump as much as 90cm (36ins) of snow.

  Twelve people will be joining a 960-kilometer cycling tour from HCMC, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand from March 6 to 14.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Marriages between banks and financial firms are forecast to be vibrant this year, but industry experts assume such deals could bring banks both advantages and disadvantages.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Last Friday the Hanoi Market Management Bureau seized four tons of cosmetics and three tons of aromatherapy of unknown origin on the way from Lang Son to Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Designer Ly Qui Khanh, 27, has been invited to participate in the fashion show of the amfAR charity event of New York Fashion Week on February 19.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) wants Vietinbank and Vietcombank to become the leading banks of Viet Nam, and boost their scale at the regional level.

 Electric cars are proving popular in HCM City even though the authorities have yet to allow them to be registered for use due to concerns about safety and suitability to traffic conditions and drivers have been told to get off the road.

 Recently the public and architects have frowned on the overly bright new paint on the Saigon Central Post Office that is one of Ho Chi Minh City’s most prominent icons and 150 year old cultural heritages of ancient Saigon.

 Rare Ha Tinh langurs were found on a mountain in central Quang Binh, according to the local Forest Ranger Department.