VietNamNet Bridge – Rising tennis star Ly Hoang Nam moved up 11 spots in the International Tennis Federation (ITF)'s latest junior ranking to 114th.  

VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung proposed Viet Nam and India early open a direct air route to speed up trade linkages between the two countries in the coming time. 

Analysts now bet on the fate of Air Mekong after hearing that the private airline cannot pay for fuel. Pacific Airlines still has reported a loss for the last five consecutive years of operation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The draft Land Law will undergo public comment during February and March before being submitted to the National Assembly for approval in May,

  Senior leaders receive Indian Vice President; Nation eyes stronger ties with S Korea; Conference reviews VFF’s 2012 activities; Vietnam, Japan strengthen strategic partnership

In Vietnam, Metro Cash & Carry, Adidas registered their business as wholesalers. However, in fact, individual clients still can buy goods directly from the distributors.

Ministry asks for unchanged fuel prices; Prospects for gold price market in 2013; Can Tho industries lack investors;  Nation vaults past neighbours in FDI; Ministry to support salt producers

VietNamNet Bridge - Khanh Hoa province, in central Vietnam, will release thousands of Aedes aegypti flies to Tri Nguyen Island to replace natural mosquitoes.

When hydropower power plant dams are built in masses on Mekong River, this would not only seriously damage the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, but would also threaten the world’s food security.

No investment capital from the states, but a lot of non-state science institutions show that they have been operating very well and they are in no way inferior to the organizations funded by the State.

VietNamNet Bridge – Analysts believe that Starbucks coffee in Vietnam would be closer to the Starbucks coffee in India rather than to China.

The amended corporate income tax law, which will be submitted to the Government this month and forwarded to the National Assembly in May, contains a provision that will help real estate investors offset their losses.

MOET has rung the red alarm over some training majors, warning about the oversupply of the labor force in the fields. However, consultancy experts believe that they cannot see the oversupply in any business fields.

In the next 10 years, urban areas would remain the potential destinations for foreign luxurious products, especially cars and beauty products.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hoang Thien will take part in the Australian Open juniors on January 19-26 in Melbourne, a Group A event. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – DARA International, an organization specializing in research on environment monitoring, announced in a report that Vietnam had become even more vulnerable to climate change in 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – Commenting about the deal of Vietinbank, one of the Vietnamese biggest commercial bank, sells stakes to The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), the Vietnamese bank has obtained big gains.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has added then singing and the long tong festival – two typical cultural features of the Tay ethnic minority groups in the north – to the list of national intangible cultural heritage.

 Eating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries per week may help women reduce their risk of a heart attack by as much as one-third, researchers reported Monday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has had a rich and diverse ecosystem of mangrove forests, which were mostly destroyed in the past. In recent years, thanks to a national strategy these mangrove forests have been restored.

VietNamNet Bridge – They are only 20-23 years old, beautiful, good at martial arts, proficiency in using a variety of guns. That is the portrait of the first 32 female policewomen of the task force of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of telephone and Internet subscribers has posted slow growth last year as shown by a recent report of the General Statistics Office (GSO) but the information is doubted. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A resolution on "vote of confidence" procedures relating to officials elected or approved by the National Assembly or People's Councils is expected to be adopted at the 14th meeting of the NA Standing Committee,

VietNamNet Bridge - Located to the north of the Truong Sa (Spratly) island district (Khanh Hoa province), Nam Yet Island is the home to papaya and coconut, which are planted by soldiers.

 Heavy snow that blanketed eastern Japan over the holiday weekend left one man dead and injured 900 others, as Tokyo commuters on Tuesday took to the slippery streets.