VietNamNet Bridge – With the number of internet users and online shopping websites in the country skyrocketing, e-commerce is expected to boom this year.

 Thousands of people gathered at Dong Ky Village, Bac Ninh Province, to participate in the local Firecracker Festival.

A number of young promising athletes emerged over the past year, giving fans a strong belief in the bright future of national sports.

 Hanoi has changed, obviously as its citizens' habit of welcoming Tet. 

 Located just 50km to the Northwest of Hanoi, Duong Lam is one of the country’s best examples of an ancient village.

 The World Bank is now embarking on a process to design its next strategy to support Vietnam in implementing the 2016-2020 socio-economic development programme and achieve the set objectives in the period.

 In Western astrology, there are 12 astrological signs – and in Vietnamese astrology, there are 12 zodiac animals – the mouse, cow, tiger, rat, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

 The Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) is a golden opportunity for foreigners living, working and touring this time of year to gain a better understanding of the country’s customs, traditions, and people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tran Temple Festival will open in the northern Thai Binh Province from the 13th to the 16th of the first lunar month, or February 20 to 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Banyan trees hundreds of years old in Hanoi lining the roads are seen as symbols of the soul of the local people.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has abundant agricultural resources, but its experts continue to argue about what farm produce would earn big money.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung participated in an array of significant diplomatic activities in 2015.

 With over 1,000 years of history, Hanoi has been Vietnam’s centre of Buddhism for centuries.

 Though there is no sign yet of the price "fever" that periodically marks the Vietnamese property market or a bubble, the market remains a hot topic for analysts and the media.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Women's Association leader encourages women to be kind and confident in everything they do.

 Many private garbage collectors in HCM City are falling on hard times due to a citywide ban on outdated and dilapidated garbage carts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Ba Hai is Viet Nam's first inventor of haptic eyes which serves Vietnamese and foreigners who suffer from varying degrees of blindness.

A senior US security official said that President Barack Obama will spend time to discuss the recent developments in the East Sea with ASEAN leaders at the US-ASEAN Summit in the US this week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Instead of ‘sitting and waiting for the worst to come’, experts say Vietnam should think of growing other crops instead of relying on rice.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 40 pangolins have died because of asthenia caused by poor eating in a non-natural environment. Only 20 remain stay alive.