VietNamNet Bridge – Senior Construction Ministry officials have expressed worries that the new Law on Planning could affect 2,000 major construction plans of different provinces and different regions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With companies such as Grab or Uber, it’s never been easier to summon a motorbike taxi (xe om).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lich Su Thu Phap Viet Nam (The History of Vietnamese Calligraphy), a book by 31-year-old researcher Nguyen Su, has just been published by Nha Nam Books.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tet book street 2017 will be held from January 30 to February 5 (from the third to the ninth of the first lunar month) at Le Thach Street and the wind instrument house in Ly Thai To flower garden,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Lunar New Year is just around the corner, but many sportspersons from Viet Nam have such packed schedules that they will have to celebrate Tet away from home.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 200 beautiful peach trees in full blossom are on display at the Peach Flower Festival, which is being held for the first time in the northern province of Lang Son.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Spring Newspaper Fair officially opened in Da Nang’s library on Bach Dang Street on Monday, displaying special Tet (Lunar New Year) issues of newspapers and magazines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi FC are facing challenges head of their Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League’s Preliminary Stage 2 match against Hong Kong’s Kitchee FC today.

 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.

Plants at Thong Nhat Park in Hanoi have been shaped into 12 animal designations to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year festival or Tet.

 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.

Some photos of Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City before its opening on January 25.

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.