Much less sludge was spilled than first estimated from a dam burst at a Brazilian iron ore mine last November which killed 17 people,

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities approved the Department of Planning and Architecture's proposal to build more than 100 public parks and playgrounds with a total area of 59ha around the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thrillist - a leading US food, drink and travel website has cited the best countries in Southeast Asia to visit, including Vietnam.

 U.S. employers likely maintained a fairly strong pace of hiring in December, suggesting that a recent but sharp manufacturing-led slowdown in economic growth would be temporary.

 Asian shares rebounded on Friday, led by strong gains for battered Chinese stocks after China suspended its market circuit breaker system and set a firmer midpoint rate for yuan trading for the first time in nine days.

VietNamNet Bridge - In most of the merger & acquisition (M&A) deals in the textile and garment industry which were made recently, the buyers were foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The police of the central province of Nghe An’s Hoang Mai town have summoned a man for investigation of photos related to the killing of a monkey which were posted on his Facebook page.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Metro Group (Germany) has announced the completion of the transfer of Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam to a Thai partner.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 200 tons of fish at fish farms on a branch of the Dong Nai River in the southern province of Dong Nai have been reported dead, placing many households in distress.

VietNamNet Bridge - The ASEAN Economic Community which is now in effect will cause products from ASEAN countries, especially Thailand and Malaysia, to penetrate the Vietnamese market.

 Viet Nam's second largest mobile network operator MobiFone has acquired 95 per cent of stake in Audio Visual Global JSC (AVG), an official told local media yesterday after completing negotiations.

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.