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.

VietNamNet Bridge - The simple and beautiful sceneries are brought to a group painting exhibition named "Colors of Nature", held at the Nguyen Art Gallery, 31A Van Mieu, Hanoi by young painters.

Petrol importers receive quotas; Nation ranks third in rubber; CMC Corp merges two telecom affiliates; Delta drafts plan for industry; Trading band to increase on both bourses

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 70,000 businesses were newly established in 2012, but more than 54,000 existing businesses were dissolved during the year.

 The technology industry displaying its wares at the massive Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas included a variety of products and apps aimed at the youngest audiences, even those unable to walk.

PetroVietnam Finance Corporation (PVFC) has finally found an ideal solution for it: “getting married” with a commercial bank – Western Bank. This may trigger a new wave of merging finance companies into banks in the future.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Revolutionary musician Hoang Hiep passed away at his residence in HCM City yesterday afternoon. He was 82.

 Warm blankets for cold spell-hit provinces; Newly manufactured drugs' licenses revoked; 2,900 helmets provided for pupils in HCM City; Chicken pox sufferers urged to undergo treatment

 South Korean rapper Psy is going nuts. Not content with starring in the most-watched video in YouTube history, the man behind viral hit "Gangnam Style" is to appear in a Super Bowl commercial for... pistachios.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Van Duan of HCM City's Eximbank team sealed victory on the final day of the Ben Tre Television Cycling Tournament, which finished yesterday, Jan 9.  

 Google announced Wednesday it has invested 200 million U.S. dollars in a wind farm in west Texas, which will become a part of the company's 1 billion U.S. dollars' renewable energy portfolio.

 Vietnam values traditional ties with India; Meeting discusses Vietnam-Laos border marker planting; RoK NA Speaker to visit Vietnam; President lauds former student patriots and calls on modern youth to emulate  

Vietnam’s catfish has to satisfy a series of requirements set up by import countries to reach out to foreign consumers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ly Son is not only a front-post island of the country but also the homeland of the sailor-soldiers of the Hoang Sa Flotilla who went out to the East Sea to defend the sovereignty of the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Three naval ships have brought over 60 tons of cargo to the Truong Sa (Spratly) islands to serve soldiers this lunar New Year festival (Tet).