A new stamp collection featuring the landscapes of the northern province of Lao Cai has been launched to mark National Tourism Year 2017, themed Lao Cai – North Western Region.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced a list of 11 newly-recognised national intangible cultural heritages.

 China remained Vietnam’s biggest trade partner in the first month of 2017, followed by the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the US, according to the General Department of Customs.

 The first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM1) and related meetings in 2017 will be organised in Nha Trang city, the south central province of Khanh Hoa, from February 18 to March 3.

 Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Tong Thi Phong met with representatives of Vietnamese expats in New York, the US, on February 12.

 The Lim festival, for many, including me, is synonymous with quan ho, the traditional love duets that Bac Ninh Province is famous for.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s Department of Tourism will focus on developing and marketing destinations to help increase the number of foreign arrivals to the city to six million this year,

Mobile network operators have noted changes in subscribers’ taste and technology trends. They now tend to access the internet and social networks instead of using phones to make calls or send messages.

VietNamNet Bridge - State management agencies and scientists have issued warnings about the damages to the economy and environment brought by harmful invasive species in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to hold more unscheduled inspections of food hygiene and safety in food production and trading this year.

 Audience in HCMC will have a chance to watch ten popular German movies in the past years at the Spring Cinema, hosted by the Goethe Institut in Vietnam, every Wednesday at 7 p.m. starting from February 15 to April 26 in HCMC.

An alarm is sounded these days when the threat of an alien creature farmed in the Mekong Delta that may do harm to local agriculture makes headlines in local media. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Work to upgrade HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport must be completed at the earliest to ensure the new facilities can be used from next year,

 The “Spring cinema” program featuring the most popular German movies of the past years will be held by the Goethe-Institute in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from February 15-April 26.

For a long time, the Vietnamese custom of asking for and giving good words has become an indispensable traditional custom on the first days of the Lunar New Year. 

 Carlsberg will bid for the State-controlled Hanoi Beer Alcohol and Beverage Joint Stock Corporation (Habeco) in March or April, but the Vietnamese Government may have more than one option to choose from when it comes to buyers.

 Besides Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, another Samsung Group member is ambitiously ramping up investment in Vietnam, promising to hit $6.5 billion in early 2017.

 A raft of unprecedented policies was proposed by the Ministry of Transport to charm investors to a major road building project in a pivotal south-eastern economic zone.

 The Vietnamese government’s latest effort to further accelerate administrative reform to the levels of ASEAN’s strongest economies has received the thumbs-up from international experts.

Casinos are feeling the heat from a pilot test on local sports betting, as the government is set to allow Vietnamese nationals to bet on international football games and horse and greyhound races starting March 31.