The Party General Secretary’s special envoy has described the continual reinforcement and development of traditional friendship between Vietnam and Laos as a strategic and vital issue to the respective cause of national building and defence.

 Vietnam has imported over 9,000 kilograms of the insecticide known as pyriproxyfen from Brazil to kill mosquitoes, the Ministry of Health (MoH) acknowledged at a meeting on the Zika virus on February 16.

 Vietnamese top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam won the first round of the China F1 Futures tennis tournament in Anning City on February 17.

 Viet Nam made a earthquake at the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship, knocking out reigning champion Japan in the quarter-final round yesterday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

 Nearly 6,000 local and foreign runners will race in the second Da Nang Barefoot Run 2015-16 across central city's My Khe Beach on Sunday.

 Low-cost carrier Vietjet Air has signed contracts worth over 3 billion USD at Asia ’s largest aerospace exhibition, the Singapore Airshow 2016.

 The Government this month issued Decree No. 11/2016/ND-CP, on licensing of foreign workers in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – US hotel group Hyatt will be the partner of Vietnamese corporation Thaigroup in a $165 million project, after Thaigroup acquired Hanoi’s famous hotel Kim Lien with a "golden land"area of 3.5 hectares.

VietNamNet Bridge - An agreement on a pilot Korean language program at schools in Vietnam from 2016 to 2023 has been signed between the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and the South Korean Embassy in Vietnam.

After Da Nang officials told the media that the city was willing to purchase “good ideas”, many people from Hanoi, Saigon and overseas emailed suggestions to Da Nang’s Chairman Huynh Duc Tho. Some ideas have been selected for implementation.

  The Ha Noi People's Committee earlier this month ordered the concerned authorities to ensure the implementation of the city's regulations in parking lots.

 Ukrainian authorities should show legal basis and the purpose of the recent raid and arrest of Vietnamese citizens in Odessa, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Minh Tri.

 The Clipper World Yacht Race fleet finished its sixth leg in the central coastal city of Da Nang on February 17 and received a spectacular welcome from local people.

 Saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta at present is comparable to a once-in-a-century disaster, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Cao Duc Phat said on February 17.

 Preparations for the upcoming 11th meeting of the 13th National Assembly (NA) were among the topics debated at the 45th session of the NA Standing Committee, which opened in Hanoi on February 17.

 Truong Thi Mai, one of the three female members of the 12th tenure Politburo, officially assumed the role of head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission on Mass Mobilisation on February 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This house of less than 5 square meters is located in the Hanoi Old Quarter. To move around inside, the owners have to crawl.

  Five more Vietnamese people, who disappeared after visiting South Korea's Jeju Island on January 11, were found in the island's Daecheong Village, the Jeju Island Immigration Office said yesterday.

 Vietnam are ready to compete at the Asian Wrestling Championships to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 17.

 A group of 400 Shan tea plants in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have been recognised as Vietnamese heritage trees.