VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Tien Minh has moved up two places to sixth in the world badminton rankings, the sport's governing body has announced.

 PM approves national plan to ease hospital overload; 2013: Vietnam Year in Choisy-le-Roi; Woman killed in city cloth store fire; Vietnam, US veterans promote exchange

 Japan's new government unveiled a $226.5 billion stimulus package Friday to breathe life into the world's third-largest economy, rebuild disaster-hit areas and beef up the military.

Vietnam’s ratification of the Law of the Sea is normal and it is a necessary task of a coastal sovereign country, a member of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, said the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi.

  Viet Nam, Italy vow to bolster all-round links; Vietnam, UK celebrate 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties; NA Chairman meets with voters; Viet Nam opposes Taiwan's oil plans; Year of Friendship set to bring VN, India together

VietNamNet Bridge - At 4.15pm on January 10, three young men fell from the fifth floor of an apartment building on Quach Van Tuan street, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City to the ground. Two died while the remaining is critical.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly 150 police officers surrounded “hot spots” in the center of Ho Chi Minh City in the early morning of January 11 to attack street crime.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The luxury cruise liner Costa Victoria of the Italia-based ship operator Costa Crociere S.p.A arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on January 7 with 2,400 passengers and crew to begin a four-day tour of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Financial Supervisory Commission has stressed the need to further cut bank lending rates to enable businesses to survive and grow.

The cash flow has been heading for the stock market since the beginning of the year. However, it’s still unclear if the tendency is stable.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation has invited Vietnamese Czech midfielder Michal Nguyen to train with the national team.

 Australians who fled for their lives from bushfires faced the trauma Friday of returning to see if they still had a home, as firefighters battled worsening conditions to douse more than 100 blazes.

Two more airlines have received licenses to enter the burgeoning domestic aviation market at a time when a slew of challenges are looming as a result of protracted local and world economic woes.

 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.