VietNamNet Bridge – Toyota Japan’s luxury Lexus brand has officially debuted in Ho Chi Minh City on December 26, adding a new member to Vietnam’s high-end car market.

A group of photographers will display and sell their photos of Sa Pa in snow to raise fund for ethnic minority kids in the northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese mobile service providers have integrated their content applications with sim cards without revealing their activities to customers.

 International Flower Festival trade fair opens in Da Lat; Classical Vietnamese history published in Russian; Artists feature at ASEAN exhibition; 30,000 year-old stone tool unearthed; Ancient citadel excavated

 Vietnamese world No 10 ranked Nguyen Tien Minh will compete at the upcoming Victor Korean Open badminton tournament in Seoul.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will release a resolution stipulating some special measures to help State-owned groups and corporations to quickly withdraw their investments from non-core sectors,

 Managers in firing line for internal corruption; Congratulations to Japan Emperor’s birthday, National Day; VFF President welcomes Thai ambassador

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Party, State and National Assembly leaders yesterday, Dec 26, welcomed Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen on his official visit to Viet Nam, his first overseas trip after he was re-elected to the post.

 Every year in late spring, Australia’s Christmas Island becomes covered in crabs when the more than 40 million red crustaceans that call the northwest island territory home start their annual migration to the sea,

In rainy season, the water rises and inundates houses, sweeping crops away. In dry season, the drought chaps the fields. This is what happens with the people in the lower course of the rivers in Central Highlands, where hydropower plants are located.

Da Lat Flower Festival is among the events celebrating the National Tourism Year 2014 and the 120th anniversary of Da Lat. Below are pictures of Da Lat one day before the opening of the flower festival.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly 200 traders and building workers surrounded the Phuoc Son Gold Company in the central province of Quang Nam yesterday, December 26, to claim debt payments.

A 45-year-old man – the owner of a woodworking enterprise in the southern province of Binh Duong – cut a 105mm mortar to collect bronze wires. The mortar exploded and the man was severely injured and lost one arm.

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than four months after Lao Cai’s Chair Nguyen Van Vinh was elected as the province’s Party Secretary, Mr. Doan Van Huong has been appointed as the new chairman.

The Korean director of the Posco E&C contractor and leaders of two construction groups were suspended while two deputy general directors of the Vietnam Expressway Corporation were reprimanded.

Mr. Nguyen Van Cung, 86 years old--a beggar in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, saved each penny to buy gold for decades and always took the gold with him. But all of his gold was robbed on the evening of December 21.

Japanese FC Consadole Sapporo has transferred $250,000 for Song Lam Nghe An FC in exchange for the signature of Vietnam’s top striker Cong Vinh. Vinh will be provided with a car, a bodyguards and an apartment to take his wife and child to Japan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat international airport will begin work on the expansion of its terminals in 2014 in order to receive 25 million passengers by 2017, according to an airport executive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The country is estimated to have a trade surplus for the second consecutive year in 2013, according to the General Statistics Office.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Minh Hai, 19, will play for Lao Champasak club next year, following a one-year loan agreement between Ha Noi T&T and the Lao League team. 

Why has a Chinese software product, not a Vietnamese or foreign one, been advised to be used at secondary schools? The answer is that there is no Vietnamese suitable product, while foreign ones are too expensive.

 An An-12 cargo plane crashed en route from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk in Russia's Southern Siberia, killing at least five crew members onboard, local emergency authorities said Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors have arranged big money ready to disburse for the big investment deals once the State sells its stakes in some enterprises.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) discovered mistakes in billing customers for prepaid SIMcards, fining selling locations nearly VND2 billion in 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Strong winds and heavy seas had isolated Ly Son Island for the past 10 days, 30km off the coast of the central province of Quang Ngai.