VietNamNet Bridge - Whether Vietnamese students should return to Vietnam after they finish overseas study is a topic of hot debate on social networks.

 The Airbus A350 aircraft of Vietnam Airlines returned to Ha Noi yesterday afternoon two days after being stranded in Paris due to problems in a wing of the aircraft.

 The Ministry of Health on January 7 slammed a misleading report that a Styrofoam sheet's dissolution by a fish oil product would prove the supplements' low quality.

 The Hanoi People's Court yesterday gave a 22-year prison sentence to Pham Thanh Tan, former General Director of State-owned Agribank, completing a 15-day trial in Ha Noi in a corruption case involving thousands of billions of dong.

 The missing radioactive materials from the Bac Kan Cement Company have not yet been found and they could be sold as scrap.

 Approximately 330 calls have been made to three national anti-corruption hotlines that were created for the public to report corruption 25 days ago, said Pham Trong Dat, head of the Government Inspectorate Anti-Corruption Bureau.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese users are buying fewer Chinese phones after a series of recent discoveries about the security problems of Chinese-made products.

VietNamNet Bridge – Cat Ba Archipelago, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is the largest limestone archipelago of Vietnam with 388 big and small islands, covering a total area of 336sq.km in Cat Hai District, Hai Phong City.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam spent more than US$556 million to import nearly 480,000 tons of meat of all kinds in January-October of 2015, an increase of $150 million compared with the entire year in 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of enterprises in Vietnam getting bribe requests when working with State agencies is big, a survey of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) showed.

The 2015 Vietnamese movie season closed with the victory of "I’m Your Grandmother", as a promising end. More than 40 films were produced, and nearly 30 films went to the local cinemas in 2015 as signaling the "boom" of Vietnamese movies in 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security has proposed to let local police use weapons given the number of people attempting to resist arrest or confrontations, especially with traffic police.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has signed a decision giving assignments to eight ministries to help realize this year’s socio-economic targets.

 The Vietnamese environment sector's main tasks this year include administrative reform, tightened controls on natural resources and more measures to tackle climate change.

 The Ministry of Science and Technology will push ahead with reforming activities in the field to serve national industrialisation and modernisation, Deputy Minister Pham Cong Tac said at a press conference in Hanoi on January 7.

 Vietnamese marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh ranked third in the world in the 50m pistol event at the end of 2015.

 Flower villages in Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have planted 1,000ha of flowers for Tet (Lunar New Year), according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 Panasonic Vietnam will consider investing more in the country in the future, General Director Eiji Fukumori said at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on January 7 to unveil the new-generation FSV – EX air conditioning system.

 Vietnam is deeply concerned about the latest hydrogen (H) bomb test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on January 6, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh.

Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh has once again expressed Vietnam’s strong protest against a pair of Chinese civilian jet airliners that landed at an illegally-built airport on Chu Thap (Fiery Cross) island in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago.

 Saigon Heat pocketed their fifth win of the season by beating the Pilipinas MX3 Kings 103-88 at the Malolos Convention Centre in the Philippines on January 6.

VietNamNet Bridge – The rare species of giant muntjac has suddenly appeared in the Pu Hu Nature Reserve in Quan Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province.

VietNamNet Bridge - New South Wales police in Australia on January 7 began investigating the case of hundreds of Vietnamese students in Australia who unknowingly bought fake Vietnam Airlines tickets online.

 Reuters Health - Treating Ebola victims with blood plasma donated by Ebola survivors failed to significantly increase the odds of recovering from the deadly virus, according to a field test of the experimental treatment.

VietNamNet Bridge - The budget deficit is higher than the permitted level, while the public debt nearly has reached an alarming rate. But huge projects capitalized at trillions of dong are still proposed.