VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese government is determined to bring total bad debts down to 3 per cent in 2015, well below last year’s 5.43 per cent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of inexperienced pedagogy university and college graduates are becoming unemployed or facing difficulties to find jobs because of mass enrolment and poor training quality.

VietNamNet Bridge – Philippine leading soprano singer Rachelle Gerodias will take part in Subscription Concert Vol.77 of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra on January 15-16 at the Hanoi Opera House.

PM okays industrial cluster plan; Five-star hotels shine in Hanoi; New record for auto sales in 2014; Hanoi cuts procedural time for enterprise establishment; Excess capacity clouds the outlook for steel sector in 2015

 VietNamNet Bridge – The New York Times on January 9 listed Vietnam’s central Danang City the 43rd among 52 places to go in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Investors are showing their interest again in seaports, as shown by purchase of shares at recent IPO of Nghe Tinh Port.

VietNamNet Bridge – The owners of tourist boats now operational at Bach Dang Wharf in downtown HCMC will be writing to the HCMC government asking for an extension of operations beyond the January 15 deadline

 Updated information about cultural events in major cities of Vietnam.

 There was no precedent for how to deal with a hacking attack on the scale of that which hit Sony Pictures, its chief executive has said.

 Transport Minister suspends leave for Vietnam Airlines employees; Little boy loses arm to bear on family farm; Hundreds strike for minimum pay rise

Encyclopaedia Britannica now in Vietnamese; VN’s colourful chapel named top ingenious work of architecture; Belgium, VN promote restoration; Subscription Concert Vol.77 to enthrall Hanoi audiences

 A candidate in the television contest Vietnam's Got Talent accidentally drank acid when a performance of magic went horribly wrong live on VTV3 on January 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Korean girlband T-ara arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City on January 9, and then held a press conference and a mini-show in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian food manufacturer - Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food (Aisa) – plans to spend $80 million to expand business in Vietnam and Malaysia this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Lien Son mountain range in Lao Cai Province had snowfall at an altitude of 2,000 m or more at around 10pm on Saturday, January 9. The snowfall stopped Sunday morning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s economy will see major changes because of new provisions of the amended Enterprise Law that will turn hundreds of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into non-state enterprises.

Richard Linklater coming of age film Boyhood has taken top honours at the Golden Globe awards.

A blood test could help people choose a stop-smoking strategy that would give them the best chance of quitting, research in the Lancet suggests.

A special collection of posters is on display at the Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts. Entitled A Revolutionary Spirit, the show features large-scale reproductions of rarely seen original art works produced between the 1960s and early 1980s.

 Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, say officials.

 A new exhibition by Vietnamese artist Tran Duc Quy offers the public an original perspective on life.

 Hong Kong surpassed large investors, such as Japan, Singapore and Taiwan to become the second largest investor in Viet Nam last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

 A two-month inspection into the admission capacity of 93 non-state high schools across Ha Noi will be conducted by the city Department of Education and Training starting next Monday.

Jurgen Klinsmann, the current coach of the US national team, has called up Vietnamese American Lee Nguyen to play as a midfielder for the United States Men’s National Team.

 CNN International has described Duong Thuy Vi as the acrobatic artistry of Vietnam's Wushu champion.