Yahoo! on Wednesday announced an advertising alliance with Google, the company that dethroned the pioneering Internet firm in the world of Internet search.

Illicit cigarettes face crackdown; Ad expense rules need reform, chambers say; Medicine needed for health investment; Wind power project begins on Phu Quy; PetroVietnam seeks fund for the $9bn refinery

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi Telecom recently complained that Viettel and VNPT cut its connection channels, causing difficulties for its business operations.  

Commercial banks that fail to ensure smooth and stable operation of their automatic teller machine (ATM) systems during the coming lunar new year holiday will be fined,

VietNamNet Bridge - On February 6, after more than three years in prison, former lawyer Le Cong Dinh was released to welcome Tet with his family.

 Leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh; Leaders offer incense to President Ho Chi Minh; Lao Ambassador pays Tet visit to Vietnamese embassy; Iran’s National Day observed in Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty-three Vietnamese fishermen detained for entering Indonesia’s territorial waters illegally will be released to enable them return home for the upcoming Tet holidays,

 A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying six satellites blasted off on Wednesday from Pad 31 of the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

The lack of investment capital and gloomy domestic market have brought golden opportunities to foreign investors to buy real estate projects for knock-down prices.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has just assigned three hospitals to be responsible for ruling on gender reassignment operations.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stressed that the achievements of last year resulted from concerted efforts by the entire nation and created favourable conditions for the country

VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of February 6, the Mrs. World Organization presented the title First Mrs. World to Dr. Kim Hong in HCM City.

In the morning of February 6, Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh visited General Vo Nguyen Giap at the Hanoi-based Central Military Hospital 108 on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.

The Department of Performing Arts has permitted Vietnam Television (VTV) to broadcast Tao Quan 2013 (The Kitchen Gods) after the show was forced to undertake edits to its content.

 The results of a probe into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will likely not be known for weeks, investigators said, meaning the fleet will remain grounded for at least that long.

VietNamNet Bridge - Traditional ao dai designed by Le Thanh Phuong was exhibited at the Museum of Natural History (U.S.) on January 26.

Ngo Le Bang, General Secretary of Vietnam Football Federation announced on Tuesday that he wanted to resign from his post soon after Tet Lunar New Year holidays, citing work pressure.

Unlike 2012, commercial banks now can easily mobilize capital from the public. However, the capital flow has got stuck, because banks cannot push up lending.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Award-winning filmmaker Hai Ninh passed away on February 5 in Hanoi after a long illness.

VietNamNet Bridge – Flowers are transported by boat from the southwestern provinces to the Binh Dong wharf, Saigon River, to serve Saigonees this Tet.