VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Viet Nam on Tuesday, Jan 8, granted gold bar trading licences to seven more firms, bring the total number of bullion traders nation-wide to 38.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three leopards, of the endangered Panthera Pardus species, have been spotted in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, according to the provincial forestry management department.

For more than three tiresome weeks, thousands of City residents and from neighboring provinces have queued for hours to buy train tickets at Saigon Railway Station or agency offices--to go back to their hometowns

 VietNamNet Bridge – After the music download charge programme proved to be ineffective, music service providers in Vietnam said they would continue to tighten control over music copyright.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 ong do (Confucian teacher) from across the country will gather in the coastal city of Vung Tau this weekend for the second Confucian Teachers Union.

Analysts believe that not many super-cars would be imported to Vietnam in 2013, because a lot of barriers have been installed which would block the way of the cars to Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City police have arrested four women who hid 4.3 kg of narcotics in their bras, panties and shoe soles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Huynh Duc will likely take charge of the national football team for two upcoming matches at the 2015 Asian Cup qualifier, according to the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Communities in Viet Nam have been legally empowered to have their say in developing projects that use water in their areas in an amendment to the Law on Water Resources that came into effect on January 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam enterprises have remitted home profits amounting to US$430 million earned from outbound investments, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City has recently proposed to open the "red light district" to better manage and restrict the consequences of prostitution. However, this opinion is so new to the Vietnamese society.

Travel firms keep doubtful with the figures of foreign and domestic travelers to Vietnam in 2012, because they are “abnormally high” in the context of the global economic crisis.

Archaeologists have found a tomb containing the remains of a man who was believed to live in the period of Phung Nguyen culture about 3,500 years ago, at the Dong Dau relic site in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

VietNamNet Bridge – Badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh made a stuttering start to 2013 when injury forced him to retire from the opening tournament in South Korea yesterday, Jan 9.

Discover Ha Noi with FVH city walks; Unconventional Science celebrates album release; Enjoy world music at Hanoi Bicycle Collective; Hard Rock Cafe presents stand-up comedy

The investment deal of US$200 million in Vietnamese Masan Consumer Group which has just been announced by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) is believed to trigger a new wave of private investment funds returning to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Weather conditions have been fluctuating in recent years, which have resulted in flower and fruit trees to bloom far ahead of Tet Lunar New Year Festival, leading to a predictable financial loss to farmers.

MOET has prohibited universities to organize beauty contests at the schools, saying that such the contests do not fit the education environment. However, the decision has been violently criticized by students.

Nguyen Duc Tien, a scientist from the Agricultural Electromechanical Post-harvesting Technology Institute and his associates have successfully invented the technology to make Gamma Oryzanol from rice bran.

Mick Moloney, one of Ireland's most renowned traditional musicians and musicologists, will return to Viet Nam for an evening of Irish music and song at the Youth Theatre in Ha Noi and at the Conservatory of Music in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite difficulties in 2012, Viet Nam managed to keep its budget deficit to GDP ratio at 4.8%, setting the premise for overcoming challenges in 2013.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has asked public technical and vocational schools in the city to focus efforts this year on improving the quality of teaching as well as the English proficiency of their graduates.

 Breakthrough Australian research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could open the door to novel new diabetes treatments, ending daily needle jabs for millions, scientists have announced.

VietNamNet Bridge – There are many legal documents that have been protested by the public. Some of them must be amended immediately. Why?

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security's environmental police agency has uncovered a case of chicken smuggling in northern mountainous Son La Province perpetrated with the aid of a local animal health official.