VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese will be welcomed back to the HCM City for Tet (Lunar New Year) with Xuan Que Huong 2015 (Homeland Spring 2015) cultural programme.

 Around 1,000 Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) will join the programme 'Xuan Que Huong' (Homeland Spring) 2015 which is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City on February 7-8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese living abroad remitted over US$5 billion to HCM City last year, 4.2 per cent higher than in 2013, according to figures released at a meeting held by the city's Committee for Overseas Vietnamese yesterday, Jan 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health said the number of foreign patients treated by medical facilities in the country surged last year, bringing foreign currency earnings of some US$1 billion.

Vietnam congratulates new Japanese leaders; President meets overseas Vietnamese in Cambodia; Vietnam, Laos strengthen court cooperation; President meets Cambodia’s Great Supreme Patriarchs

 VietNamNet Bridge – A project to provide 24 television and radio channels to overseas Vietnamese via the Internet will be implemented from 2015 to 2020.

  Currently over 4.5 million Vietnamese people live outside of Vietnam, a comparatively high number, a recent workshop in the central province of Phu Yen disclosed. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese (OV) last week voiced concerns over a new circular on second-hand machine imports, saying the new rules would hit their operations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang is set to hold a fireworks competition with a difference: instead of lighting up the night sky, it will explode onto computer screens.

 About 200 Vietnamese people in Hiroshima and neighbouring localities in Japan on July 13 took to the street to protest China ’s illegal placement of its drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in Vietnam’s waters.

A Chinese passenger was caught attempting to steal USD5,000 on a Vietnam Airlines’ flight from Jakarta to HCM City.

The Viet Nam Road Administration announced yesterday that it had removed all road signs limiting speed to under 40kmph on national highways.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A range of policies took effect yesterday (July 1) including the revised Land Law, a decree on methods to evaluate land prices, and a decree to monitor multi-level marketing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 95 percent of National Assembly deputies on June 24, the last day of their seventh session in the 13 th tenure, approved the Law on amendments and supplements to the Law on Vietnamese Nationality.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Law on Housing needs to be amended due to shortcomings that have led to uncontrolled and unplanned housing developments, shortage of housing for low-income people and a surplus of high-end housing,

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly members yesterday (June 17) agreed that the Law on Vietnamese Nationality should be amended to allow overseas Vietnamese more flexibility in retaining their citizenship.

 Some contagious diseases likely to enter Vietnam; More vessels to be built for Fisheries Surveillance Force; HCM City to bury over 1,000km of wires underground; Vietnam donates rice to drought victims in Angola

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photos and videos of dragon and fairy engravings on pillars and wooden walls of Vietnamese communal temples from the 16th century to the early 19th century are being shown as part of an exhibit

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese across the globe have continued to raise their strong objections to China due to its blatant deployment of a giant oil rig and a large number of surrounding vessels into Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam late last week called for the public, particularly patriotic workers at industrial parks, to stay vigilant against ill-intentioned elements.