The temperature at the Mau Son mountain peak in the northern province of Lang Son continued to sink to minus 2oC at 10 am on January 23 and white frosts nipped the 1,500 metre-mountain peak.

 Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) has been given authorization to operate a nationwide computerized lottery in Vietnam for the next 18 years, according to widely publicized local media reports.

 The Prime Minister has recently approved a programme to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure by 2020.

 Forty-five excellent athletes are getting special training and treatment to prepare for Olympics qualifying tourneys, the General Department of Sports and Physical Education said. 

 Phan Hoang Thai of Vietnam won a silver medal at the 23rd Asian Junior Cycling Championships in Oshima, Japan on January 22.

 Fifteen bands from Thailand, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong (China) and Vietnam will perform at the music festival School of Mosh in Hanoi on January 24.

 Ten talented artists in different fields of movie, music and theatre were honoured at the annual Mai Vang (Golden Ochna) Awards ceremony at the HCM City Opera House on January 22.

 Vietnamese football fans will be able to vote for the favourite players in 2015 through the internet, it was revealed in Ho Chi Minh City on January 22.

 Republic of Korea (RoK) businesses have poured additional 6.72 billion USD into Vietnam, making the RoK the largest among 62 foreign investors in the Southeast Asian nation.

  Party and State leaders of Laos hosted receptions for Hoang Binh Quan – special envoy of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong, in Vientiane on January 22.

Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, delivered a report on deepening international integration in order to serve national construction and defence at the 12th National Party Congress.

 Agriculture, rural areas and farmers are among topics debated at the January 23 working session of the 12th National Party Congress which was chaired by Politburo member and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The sixth session of the Vietnam-China Land Border Joint Committee was held from January 17-21 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

  Delegates to the 12th National Party Congress discussed the documents presented to the Congress on the morning of January 23, focusing on how to build a uniform policy for national industrial development and a modern agriculture sector.

  Issues relating to social welfare and human resources drew great attention from delegates at the 12th National Party Congress during their working session on January 23.

Mobile World, one of the largest mobile phone and electronic product distribution chains in Vietnam, is preparing to open its first stores in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar in early 2017, revealed its CEO Tran Kinh Doanh.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Ross Stewart's desire to leave home and discover the world brought him to Viet Nam. Little did he know he'd end up spending over a decade in a country, and find his dream job.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Principle of Ha Noi College of Electrical Mechanics Dong Van Ngoc told the Kinh te & Do thi (Economic &Urban Affairs) newspaper about problems in vocational schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese tycoons, one in Quang Ninh and another in Hanoi, have spent a lot of money to cover many details of their expensive Rolls-Royce Phantoms with gold.

VietNamNet Bridge - Cars from Thailand and Indonesia have been flowing to Vietnam in a wave of imports from ASEAN.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An uncontrolled rise in personal vehicles has exacerbated traffic in cities. Since 2003, the Government has pushed Ha Noi, HCM City and the Ministry of Transport to limit the number of vehicles on the streets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The UK Daily Telegraph has listed Vietnam among the world’s happiest countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – House-shaped rooms connected by staircases and bridges inside a three-metre-wide house in Ho Chi Minh City was named House of the Year at the World Architecture Festival last November.

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