VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition featuring artworks by four artists coming from the midland region of Vietnam will begin tomorrow at 5.30pm at the Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi.

 Hanoi People’s Committee has promulgated a plan on organizing the 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom festival.

 Vietnam Airlines’ on-time performance in the last two months of 2018 has improved significantly, reaching the fifth place among 35 airlines in the Asia – Pacific in terms of punctuality, VnExpress reported.

 Four major state-owned commercial banks in Vietnam have announced that they will lower their lending rates to priority sectors in a move to support enterprises.

 Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee, Nguyen Duc Chung has just signed a controversial decision which bans people from recording at citizen reception offices.

 Renowned Vietnamese stage director Tran Luc and the LucTeam troupe will perform the play “The Bald Soprano” by dramatist Eugène Lonesco at 8pm on January 12 at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem district in Hanoi.

 Walls on Ma Pi Leng Pass in the northern province of Ha Giang have been stained by careless drawings.

As much as 14 tonnes of scrap smuggled from Cambodia to Vietnam were seized, Major Dinh Quang Diem, head of Long Binh Border Guard Station in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang told the Vietnam News Agency

 A woman in the central province of Ha Tinh will sue the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam for the agency’s lax management over a local junction which was partially blamed for a recent accident leading to her husband’s death.

 Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh believed eight Vietnamese were involved in an illegal surrogacy service.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least seven out of 700 drivers in the central province of Nghe An tested positive for drugs, according to a report by the Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper.

 The fifth Vietnam-Japan Environment Policy Dialogue was held in Hanoi on January 9 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

The financial sector collected $60.2 billion towards the State budget in 2018, or 7.8 percent higher than projected, heard a conference to review financial and budget works in 2018 and put forward tasks for 2019.

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang underlined Vietnam’s stance on the US vessel USS McCampbell’s passage through Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) waters, while responding to reporters’ questions regarding the case on January 9. 

 MicroDragon, a made-in-Vietnam earth observation satellite, will be launched into orbit by an Epsilon-4 rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture at 7:50 of January 17 (Hanoi time).

 The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre is partnering with US Seagate and CyArk companies to digitalise data of two heritages of Tu Duc Tomb and An Dinh Palace, Director of the centre Phan Thanh Hai said on January 9.

 The Vietnamese Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau (China) on January 9 met with sides relevant in an oil tanker blaze in Hong Kong’s southern waters to find the causes of the incident and discuss search and rescue measures.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Universities with an entrepreneurial mindset will play an important role in the development of Innovation Districts in HCM City, 

VietNamNet Bridge - Only a few research works conducted at universities can be applied in reality. 

 The popping up of diverse modern performances and art shows have made it much more difficult for traditional art genres to sustain stay popular.