Michael Keaton's film Birdman has been given a boost in the run-up to the Oscars after winning the Producers Guild of America's top award.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese police on January 22 arrested two men in HCM City for founding and operating a US-based child porn website, based on information from the FBI.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese students studying at the Ahart pilot training center in California have asked the Ministry of Transport for help after the center was suspended by the US Federal Aviation Administration last October.

 Hospital treats puffer fish patients; Man arrested for drug, weapons smuggling; Petrol stations cheat customers in Dac Lac; Smuggling on the increase as Lunar New Year approaches; Electrical faults the most common cause of HCM City fires

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ly Hoang Nam booked a place in the second round of the Australian Open's junior competition yesterday, Jan 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is likely to come back to the growth model fueled by the State sector rather than private enterprises in the coming years if strong investments from the former continue.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors’ excess of sales over purchases in the stock market have been attributed to the appreciation of the US dollar.

TNT Theatre tours across Viet Nam; Concert to celebrate friendship with Japan; Bank's support brings theatre to communities nation-wide; Vietnamese artwork exhibited at Southeast Asian art fair; Coin collector's thousand-year journey

 Quang Nam to open new tourism site; Vietnamese hotels among world’s top 25 best hotels for service; Marketing workshop promotes Vietnam’s tourism; Indian tourism explores central Vietnam; Ninh Binh seeks ways to promote tourism

 The World Health Organization (WHO) has set out plans for reform, admitting that it was too slow to respond to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

 People in the Mekong Delta and scientists have opposed construction of Don Sahong Dam in Laos and other dams on the Mekong River, according to the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN).

 Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh referred to the prospects of Viet Nam, the nation’s relations with other partners as well as the importance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Viet Nam at his interview with the Reuters on January 22.

 Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) in Ho Chi Minh City plans to lure in $150 million in investment capital in 2015, 40 per cent of which will come from foreign direct investment (FDI) capital.

 Vietnamese people spent at least US$3.1 billion for drinking 3.14 billion liters of beer in 2014, excluding imported beer, according to the Vietnam Beverages Association (VBA) released today.

 The Viet Nam Professional Football Company (VPF) has found new sponsors for the national premier league.

 Nguyen Van Phuong won the boys' singles title at the 2015 Asia U14 Tennis Championship, Division II, in HCM City's Phu Tho Sports Centre this morning.

Archaeologists recently discovered more than 100 stone carvings on a high mountain in the northern Ha Giang province.

 The Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC) is negotiating with some banks to buy nearly VND2 trillion (US$94 million) of debt owned by the Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines).

 A new web tool that calculates Viet Nam's energy supply and demand and how they interact with the country's greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 officially debuted yesterday in Ha Noi.

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt, officials said.

Construction ministry inspectors have found violations in the building of two flyovers in Ha Noi that can inflict losses of VND7.94 billion (US$378,000) on the State Budget.

 Katty Pham, an American girl of Vietnamese origin, became a special guest at US President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address on January 20.

 Official website of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on January 22 ran an article highlighting the glorious victory of striker Abass Cheikh Dieng of Becamex Binh Duong team.

 Lord Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam is expected to pay his third visit to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 26-30 January.  

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment introduced the first Biennial Update Reports (BUR1) of Vietnam to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at a workshop in Hanoi on January 23.