VietNamNet Bridge – Skills gaps and shortages plus information barriers are the main challenges to labour mobility in Viet Nam, a development report by the World Bank reveals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One baby could grip his mother’s finger and the other could cry. Doctors said that these are good signs.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Government has approved the 9-day lunar New Year (Tet) holiday proposed by Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang. The vacation time will last from January 28 to February 2, 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – According to data released by the State Audit Agency, only 49.5 million in the total of over 75.5 million subscribers of Vinaphone and Mobifone were active within 30 days from the time of calculation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The talented photographer explores the wild and mysterious characters of the jade island in photos with the theme "Harmony of Nature".

 VietNamNet Bridge - The firm that performed customs procedures is reputed, so the 12 speakers containing 230kg of heroin was exempted from checking by customs, a customs official told the media yesterday.

Travel operator Saigontourist welcomed US luxury liner, Azamara,and its 750 passengers and crew members to Vietnam, for the first time this year.

President Truong Tan Sang has told US Trade Representative Michael B. G. Froman that Vietnam will exert every effort to push up the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that involves both Vietnam and the US .

VietNamNet Bridge - Trung Tuc Vuong Le Lai Temple, part of the Lam Kinh Special National Relic site in central Thanh Hoa Province, burnt to the ground on Sunday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged for balanced supply and demand of goods so as to keep their prices from spiralling, especially farm produce and foodstuff as the lunar New Year approaches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Digital ads, including online ads and mobile ads, are a growing tendency in Vietnam and is believed to witness high growth in the time to come.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fresh policies shall come into force in December, 2013 including the level of vocational training support for employees, three-level development of electricity market; ceiling level of deposit and labor markets,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Several old pieces of pottery dated to around seven centuries ago were recently found in the central province of Ha Tinh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wrestlers are confident they may pick up six gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games, taking place in Myanmar next month.

 VietNamNet Bridge - As the youngest child in a wealthy family in Da Lat city, Le Duong The Hanh was an excellent students. But her bright future collapsed when she was diagnosed to have a brain tumor.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over the last 20 years Vietnam has signed some US$63 billion in overseas development assistance (ODA), with about two-thirds used for infrastructure projects.

VietNamNet Bridge – Traditional form of dressing is becoming less common among Vietnamese ethnic groups as a result of modernization and urbanization, according to a two year study conducted by the Museum of Cultures of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is facing many challenges in energy, food security and water resources given the adverse impacts of climate change,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Long-term planning is needed to cope with worsening pollution in the Sai Gon and Dong Nai rivers, experts have warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2013 information security index of Vietnam – VNISA Index 2013 – has been improved significantly, but high risks still exist. Vietnam Net online newspaper reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 13th National Assembly’s (NA) sixth session has been hailed as historic, ushering in a new period of national construction and defence.

 VietNamNet Bridge - When the last leaves of autumn fall; when the thin mist of early morning fly on the Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake; it is the time Hanoi enters winter.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly all the universities in Vietnam pledge the international standards TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, B1 for their graduates’ English skills. However, the “international standards” remain doubtful.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of enterprises in the fields of real estate, finance & banking, consumer goods have suddenly jumped into the retail market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Australia has temporarily stopped providing cows to Vietnam so as to spend time on cooperating with Vietnamese competent agencies to dispel the information that Australian cows have been dumped on the Vietnamese market.