The Ambassadors of the US and France to Vietnam have shared their experience of celebrating the biggest festival in a year of Vietnamese people – the Lunar New Year or Tet.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum and the Stamp Company have recently issued 50 gold coins of 20 VND in domination, used by President Ho Chi Minh as gift for ministers, senior officials and diplomatic guests.

For the first time, the entire 67-poem Lyrical Intermezzo of renowned German author Heinrich Heine's collection Book of Songs has been translated into Vietnamese by Chu Thu Phuong, a diplomat who spent years living in Germany.

VietNamNet Bridge – Park Noh Wan, the Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Viet Nam, recently became the first foreigner to receive the International Relations Doctoral Degree from the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Le Thanh An, the U.S. Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, has ended his 3-year term in Vietnam. Today, August 6, he is leaving Vietnam to return to the United States to receive a new task.

John Ramsden is a diplomat but he has a passion for photography. From 1980 to 1983, he was sent to Hanoi as part of the British Diplomatic Service’s mission. Within three years, he traveled around Hanoi and took nearly 2,000 photos.

Ton Nu Thi Ninh served her country as Ambassador and Head of Mission to the European Union in Brussels, then as vice-chair of Viet Nam's 11th National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, and now as the Head of Tri Viet Institute.