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 U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the next head of the Federal Reserve, to replace the outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke whose term ends at the end of this month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though the real estate market has been cool for a long time with the prices bottoming down, it remains a profitable business which helps a lot of Vietnamese families get rich.

 A man suspected of carrying out the arson attack on the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, has been arrested, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung yesterday, Jan 6, called for major improvements to the living conditions of farmers saying this was key to ensuring rural development and national industrialisation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fires broke out from a paint warehouse and spread rapidly, making an enterprise of thousands of square meters of a Korean company in the Yen Phong Industrial Zone collapse.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After more than three years without a single case of measles, the HCM City Children's Hospital 1 now receives 5-6 child patients per day with complications.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This lunar New Year, some parks and bus stations in HCM City will have 11 public toilets of 4-5 star standards and ATMs to serve visitors and passengers.

The authorities on Monday excavated over 70 sets of remains, founded by “telepath” Nguyen Thanh Thuy, at the martyrs’ cemetery in Dak Lak province, for DNA tests to identify whether they are the remains of martyrs or not.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment made public the sector’s top ten highlights of 2013 on January 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A favourite dish of the Vietnamese people, the pho noodle soup, has been recommended as a "bowl of heaven" by The Huffington Post, a US newspaper website.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A baby South African giraffe was born in captivity on January 2 at the Dai Nam zoological park in the southern province of Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty percent of the most excellent students would automatically finish high school without having to attend finals under a Ministry of Education and Training’s plan.

More and more cities have offered free wi-fi services, because the cities’ leaders believe this would help attract more travelers. Meanwhile, whether Vietnam should develop “wi-fi cities” remains controversial by scientists.

The fact that a series of foreign contractors were punished for their violations has pleased domestic contractors, who always complain that foreigners receive big favors from government agencies and investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) announced the sector’s top eight events on January 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of hectares of forests in Hoang Lien National Park in the northern province of Lao Cai are struggling to overcome forest fires, deforestation and illegal logging.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A joint venture gold company in central Quang Nam Province's Phuoc Son District resumed operations over the weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance (MoF) announced that over VND17 trillion (US$823.1 million) worth of government bonds were mobilised after its 10 auctions in December 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge – Located over 1,000 meters above sea level, Dong Van Stone Plateau is formed by narrow valleys alternating with rocky mountain ranges in the north of Vietnam. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The induction of top Vietnamese women players into a foreign club has catapulted them into a league of their own by way of recognition and renown.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bamboo roots used to be burned as firewood in rural areas of Viet Nam, since farmers only used trunks of bamboo trees for handcrafts or the building of houses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Criminal activity rose in 2013 driven by increases in cases relating to drugs, human trafficking and social evils, according to a recent report on public security.

Tran Dai Nghia is a big name in the field of weapon manufacturing in Vietnam, and associated with the famous products in the history of the war of resistance of Vietnamese people such as bazoka bullets, SKZ guns or flying bombs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese consumers will pay 50 to 60 per cent less tax on cars imported from ASEAN countries beginning January 1.