Only one percent of students choose to study Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese or German as their first foreign language. 

 The Tram Chim National Park, a half-year dry, another-half flooded land, spanning over 7,312 hectares in Tam Nong district, Dong Thap province is habitated by hundreds of species of flora and fauna.

 US President Donald Trump on January 23 signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP).

VietNamNet Bridge - The domestic e-wallet market has not developed well in the last eight years since the first e-wallet was licensed, though there are 16 e-wallet service providers.

 At the end of the 1990s, franchise was still a strange concept to most people in Viet Nam.

 The health insurance medical information system, rolled out last June, is the optimal solution to ensure transparency and prevent insurance fraud. 

 The Hanoi traffic police’s proposal to allow Hanoians to own only one car and one registration plate interferes with the citizens’ right to own property.

Vietnam catfish exports to the US market face being shut down this coming September 2, after efforts to abolish a program shifting regulation of catfish producers to the USDA fails.

The new year is coming and together with people nationwide, Hanoians are preparing to welcome the arrival of spring. Following are photos about Hanoi people preparing for the upcoming Lunar New Year.

Ambassador to South Africa Vu Van Dung presented his credentials to the country’s President Jacob Zuma on January 24.

 Vinamilk, Vietnam’s largest milk producer, has been intensifying efforts to expand its market share in Bangladesh.

 Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung on January 24 presented the adjusted investment license of 50 years to Coca-Cola Vietnam.

 Vietnamese leaders paid tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on January 25 in celebration of the 87th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930).

Vu Huy Hoang was stripped of the title as former Minister of Industry and Trade in the 2011-2016 tenure due to his violations in personnel work.

 Mobile phone operators said they are making preparations to avoid network congestion during the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things were high on the agenda as FTP Group Chairman Truong Gia Binh met with business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 

The three telecommunication groups under direct management of the Information and Communications Ministry (MIC) will have to develop their equitisation plans in 2017. 

People are flocking to streets and shops in HCM City to shop for Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, and sellers say sales are booming. 

 Reuse Everything Institute Inc of Finland has agreed to fund a biodiversity research project in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve that will contribute to protecting the endangered red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).