Nearly 100,000 books will be put on show at the annual book street festival in downtown Ho Chi Minh City from February 2-8 in celebration of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday 2019.

Petrol imports this year should be sharply reduced as the Nghi Son Refinery comes into operation and the output of Dung Quat Refinery meets most of the local demand, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai.

 Vietnam’s northwestern region is now more poetic than usual as spring is coming. 

 Vietnamese hip-hop star Suboi, young EDM artist Teddy Chilla, and artist and choreographer Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent from Brussels-based studio t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e will cooperate in the solo contemporary dance “Mutante”.

 Artist Phung Tien Son will hold a solo exhibition featuring his sound installation Soundtracks at independent art space MoT+++ in HCMC from February 23 to April 23.

 Pho Ong do, a street lined with calligraphers’ stands, has been opened at the HCMC Youth Cultural House at the corner of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and Pham Ngoc Thach streets in District 1.

 The driver of the truck that crashed into a group of cemetery-goers in Hai Duong City yesterday afternoon, leaving eight people dead, tested positive for heroin, the local media reported, citing provincial police.

 Local residents in Hanoi will experience a fifth-generation (5G) network service once it is launched on a trial basis in the first quarter of the year, according to the municipal Department of Information and Communications at a meeting held today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An English book on primate expert Tilo Nadler was published on Sunday, featuring the German’s extensive career in Vietnam.

The HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways has proposed the HCMC People’s Committee advance US$97 million from the city’s budget to make overdue payments to the contractors of the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line.

 A chung cake festival was held in Phan Thiet city, Binh Thuan province, on January 20. Nearly 120 tourists from many countries joined in making the traditional cake of Vietnam.

The country’s largest city brims with things to do and explore, from motorbike tours of former Chinatown to incense-filled pagodas, underground war tunnels and a UNESCO-listed biosphere.

Quy Nhon Port Joint Stock Company in the central province of Binh Dinh has been fined VND60 million for repeatedly violating regulations on towage prices after the firm offered the service 30-40 per cent more expensive than regulated.

VietNamNet Bridge - Le Quynh Hoa, a parent in Cau Giay, complained on her Facebook page that her son, a third grader, got a 9 and 10 score on nearly all of his school work and exams.

 Nguyen Tri Hieu, a banking expert, has thrown his support behind a plan by the Ministry of Information and Communications to pilot Mobile Money.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Nguyen Van Phuong and his Romanian partner Nicholas David Ionel won their first Australian Open Junior Championship boys doubles match on January 21 in Melbourne.

 Vietnam’s property market with an incomplete legal framework is still nascent compared with those in other countries.

 With only two weeks left before the Tet (lunar New Year) holiday, Cao Thon villagers are busy with incense making to meeting the increasing demand for incense sticks during the country’s biggest traditional festival.

The biggest influencers were businesspeople whose enterprises developed large, significant projects and made huge profits, who owned big properties and successfully developed their real estate brands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A painting exhibition by Vietnamese and South Korean women opened yesterday in Hanoi, featuring the natural landscape of the two countries.