VietNamNet Bridge - From July 2011 to April 2012, a family from HCM City produced about 100 kg of narcotics in the southern province of Long An to sell to drug addicts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pre-tax profits of Vietcombank and VietinBank, two large banks with majority State ownership, rose slightly in 2012 despite tough challenges facing the banking industry.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 100 people from 12 famous calligraphy clubs throughout the country grouped up in the southern coastal city of Vung Tau on January 12.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi officials have asked relevant bodies to decorate the streets by Khue Van Cac symbols during the lunar New Year (Tet holiday).

VietNamNet Bridge – Blocking their way, holding back, clinging to purchase goods everywhere are the problems of foreign visitors in Ho Chi Minh City for many years.

VietNamNet Bridge - In a press conference on the afternoon of January 14, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) vice chairman Nguyen Lan Trung confirmed that coach Hoang Van Phuc the interim coach of the national football squad.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Music albums are a hot item at this time of year and unclicensed businesses are taking advantage of a largely unregulated market, reports the magazine Thoi Trang Tre (Young Fashion).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training will be offered to 600,000 rural employees this year under a national project that ends in 2020, according to the General Department of Vocational Training.  

 US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday urged Congress to raise the nation's borrowing limit as Democrats and Republicans battle over the federal budget.

 VietNamNet Bridge – TV stations will continue to hold the lion’s share of the advertising market in Vietnam this year as TV is still the most popular medium and most effective advertising vehicle.

VietNamNet Bridge – The students, who follow economics related majors, would have to pay 100 percent of tuitions, if a project being considered by the Ministry of Education & Training and Finance comes true.

The State Bank of Vietnam successfully eased the interest rates in 2012 in order to make it easier for businesses to access bank loans. However, there is always the other side of a coin.

The Soc Trang Province People's Court early this week opened the appellate court for a defendant who asked the My Tu District People’s Court to pay compensation of VND500 million ($25,000) for its wrongful verdict.

 Fallen cycling hero Lance Armstrong personally apologized Monday to staff members of the Livestrong cancer charity ahead of an interview with talk show diva Oprah Winfrey.

Inspectors of the Vietnam Environmental Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment last Saturday proposed the HCMC authorities fine 25 local entities for violating environmental protection laws

VietNamNet Bridge - A multidimensional Hanoi is portrayed by 13 artists in a variety of styles and materials in the ongoing exhibition at Art Talk Café, 12 Quan Su, Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – In previous years, fixed line services brought high revenue to the national telecom group VNPT. But nowadays, it incurs the loss of trillions of dong from the services.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Polish-American pianist Anna Kijanowaska will come on stage for one night only at the Youth Theater, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street in Hanoi at 8 p.m. on January 23.

The number of lawsuits for safeguard measures against Vietnamese export items are believed to increase in 2013. Wooden furniture and cashew nuts may be the next defendants in the lawsuits.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ho Chi Minh City has 15 special schools for the hearing-impaired, where currently around 2,000 students are already enrolled.

The Government's Decree 103, which takes effect this month, increases regional minimum wages for helpers employed by businesses, co-operatives, farms, households and individuals by VND250,000-350,000 per month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Space Technology Institute will send an Earth observation satellite worth 55.2 million euros (US$72.4 million) to the Earth’s orbit.

In cemeteries, behind the cold graves is the underground world with “odd” tricks to make money. Except for honest people who make a living through their own labor, these "cemetery vultures" must be inspected and removed by the authority.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People living in the Song Hong (Red River) Delta are preparing to celebrate the Huong Pagoda festival 2013, which a local official has promised will be the biggest ever.

Bird-nests prove lucrative swoop; Ministry to introduce new food labelling standards; Sugar makers seek to export 300,000 tonnes; Firm chosen to temporarily import, re-export iPhones; Real estate prices likely to keep falling