Private film companies that sunk large amounts of money into making movies for release at Tet (Lunar New Year) saw high ticket sales, while theatres also had large crowds.

 More than 140 amateurs from Thailand, Hong Kong and Viet Nam will compete in the Da Nang Golf Club Championship, the club announced yesterday.

 Vietnam's U23 team gathered at the Ha Noi-based Viet Nam Football Training Centre yesterday to practice for the 2016 AFC U23 Championship qualifier.

 As many as 50,000 people flocked to the holy site in Ha Noi's suburban My Duc District on the opening day of the increasingly popular three-month long Huong Pagoda Festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over the past few years, some veterinary experts, forest rangers and volunteers in Viet Nam have been rescuing and caring for birds, particularly endangered species, at a national wildlife reserve.

 The northern province of Tuyen Quang is taking steps to have the traditional Then singing of the Tay ethnic group be included on the list of the world intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

 Bookings by both domestic and international adventurers to explore the world's biggest cave, Son Doong in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh Province, have reached 267 since the tour launched early this month.

 Vietnam is working fast to repair business gaps in anticipation of a myriad of bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTA) expected to be signed in 2015.

Viet Nam is ranked 75th among 93 countries in the annual Global Talent Competitiveness Index, which measures a nation's competitiveness based on the quality of talent it can produce, attract and retain.

 Vietnam's cashew industry exported more than US$2 million worth of the kernels in 2014 - for the first time.

  In the warm atmosphere of the Lunar New Year Festival, people like to stay with their families. However, many doctors and nurses must continue their work over Tet.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung struck the gong symbolizing the opening of the first trading session of the Year of the Goat at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on February 24, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

 Presient Truong Tan Sang launched 2015’s tree-planting festival at Hung King temple in northern Phu Tho province, on February 24.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has applauded the joint efforts to ensure a happy and safe Tet for everyone at a February 24 cabinet meeting in Hanoi.

 Several artists will perform traditional music in three French cities - Paris, Marseilles and Bordeaux - to celebrate the overseas Vietnamese community and the French during the lunar new year festival.

The media outlets must understand their position, role and mission in preparation for disseminating socio-economic tasks and covering major events this year.

 A brighter outlook is forecast for the Vietnamese economy in 2015 and the following years amid difficulties and challenges, according to economic expert Nguyen Minh Phong.

Daniel Toohey, 31, an Australian tourist, was chosen to carry the 6m-long firecracker at the spring festival of the Dong Ky Village, Bac Ninh Province.

 Tens of thousands of monks, nuns and Buddhist followers from across the nation have begun the annual spring pilgrimage to the Bai Dinh pagoda at Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien district in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

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