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 Many private garbage collectors in HCM City are falling on hard times due to a citywide ban on outdated and dilapidated garbage carts.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

 The Con Son-Kiep Bac 2016 Spring Festival will officially open in the northern province of Hai Duong on February 23 (the 16th day of the first lunar month).

Unlike in previous years, farmers in Lam Dong, which is being dubbed as the country’s tea growing kingdom, find themselves in a critical stage as their products cannot find buyers.

Vietnam has a large system of schools for the gifted where the best students receive special education designed for them. However, experts believe that the ‘skimming’ method, or ‘training fighting cocks’, is no longer suitable.

 Work on a number of major traffic projects under the Public-Private- Partnership model in Ho Chi Minh City are expected to begin in 2016, said the municipal Department of Transport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pop star Ho Ngoc Ha, super-model Thanh Hang, singer and actress Angela Phuong Trinh and beauty queens Pham Huong, Hoang My, Ky Duyen and Thu Thao are praised as fashion icons in Vietnam last year.

 Dry weather caused by El Niño and falling rice inventories are expected to send prices of the grain higher over the coming months, reversing years of decline and boosting the cost of Southeast Asia’s staple food.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism published a list of 15 national intangible cultural heritages.

 Vietnamese filmmakers will join their Southeast Asian colleagues in a documentary script-writing residence and a documentary co-production meeting in Phnom Penh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The implementation of UN programmes and action plans on sustainable development poses opportunities and challenges for Vietnam,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam aims to achieve annual average economic growth of 6.5 per cent to 7 per cent through 2020, striving to turn itself into an advanced industrial country soon,

 Hanoi is more peaceful and quiet during Tet holidays with fewer people and less noise.

  On the first days of the 2016 Lunar New Year, the warm and sunny weather created favourable condition for Hanoi residents to flock to the streets to enjoy the Tet atmosphere as well as go to pagodas.