Though the assets offered for sale are plentiful, only few deals have been made.

 Visitors to Danang’s Ba Na tourist resort have the chance to pose for a photo with life-size wax models of celebrities they admire when touring the wax museum known as the first Madame Tussauds Vietnam.

 Rice exports slump as prices rise; Vietnam needs to restructure tra fish sector; Seven new air routes to connect to Can Tho City; Local dairy firms hike prices in foreign brands’ footsteps;

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first chartered flight with Russian tourists on board will land at Phu Quoc Island on Valentine’s Day, February 14, marking the start of an influx of Russian holidaymakers into this picturesque tropical island.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many parts of Hong (Red) and Thai Binh rivers have seen its average water level remarkably reduced - by two metres lower than the previous 20 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 240 people have tested positive to measles in 24 provinces since the beginning of the year, including three child fatalities, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Though FTTH (fiber to the home) is considered the best service for people to access to Internet, it is still not the choice of the majority of Vietnamese people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four sculptures of Vietnamese historical figures have been presented to the public as part of efforts to publicise them.

A lot of mistakes were made in the past, leading the failure of the plans on the development of many key industries. The supporting industries, therefore, cannot grow up.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several measures undertaken to maintain security and order during the recently concluded Tet (Lunar New Year) festival have to be persisted with in the coming weeks and months, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered.

 An Australian man who killed a great white shark by ramming it with his boat and beating it with a pole has been fined A$18,000 ($16,000; £9,000).

 The first chartered flight with Russian tourists on board will land at Phu Quoc Island on Valentine’s Day, February 14, marking the start of an influx of Russian holidaymakers into this picturesque tropical island.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Around 250 bikes will be available for rent for only VND4,000-5,000 ($0.19) per hour under a pilot project in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's average inflation this year will rise to 7.5-8 per cent, said the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, in its latest monthly report.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon rock fans may have come across The Lost Art, an expat band from the U.K and Japan that covers Vietnamese songs in a rock style.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Residents of Viet Xuyen Commune in central Ha Tinh Province are worried that contaminated well water is exposing them to cancer after a spate of deaths caused by the killer disease recently.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to Moc Chau Plateau in the northern province of Son La these days will be amazed at the picturesque scenes there, where wild plum and peach trees blossom everywhere.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has issued guidelines for the purchase of shares in Vietnamese credit institutions by foreign investors and their sale by these institutions through Decree No 01/2014/ND-CP (January 3, 2014).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the 2012 results of the public administration reform index (PAR INDEX 2012), on which Ha Noi received 82.79 per cent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A company authoritised by Vietnam Television to protect the copyright of Kitchen Gods 2014 has officially sued websites, including YouTube, which published the programme without permission.