VietNamNet Bridge – From 2013, Ho Chi Minh City will apply the new financial mechanism in scientific research. Accordingly, research results can be traded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to manage greenhouse gas emissions and establish a carbon trading scheme.

  Exhibition on domestic violence in Hanoi; Improved hospital hygiene helps curb antibiotic intake; Support key in the fight against HIV; Screening to reduce birth defects by 95%

Nearly 600 scientists, including 100 people from 15 countries attended the International Conference on Traffic Safety in Hanoi last week to give suggestions to help Vietnam reduce traffic accidents.

VietNamNet Bridge – Poet Vi Thuy Linh has released her first prose collection, ViLi's Essays.  

Food companies don’t intend to make high grade canned products for the Tet sale season, but they will concentrate in making products with reasonable prices to retain consumers.

VietNamNet Bridge -After the 4 days off for the New Year, state employees and workers will have a nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, from February 9 to 17, 2013.

E-commerce – effective way to overcome crisis; Web users learn value of security; Websites warned of virus threat; CyberSource and PeaceSoft reach agreement; Viettel cuts off EVN subscribers

VietNamNet Bridge - Mai Thi Giang, 21, from the northern port city of Haiphong, is the winner of the Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012, which ended in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25.    

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League club Becamex Binh Duong overcame the Vietnamese U22 team 2-0 in the final of the Number One BTV Cup yesterday, Nov 25, at the Binh Duong Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest collections by famous designers were introduced at the "Fashion and Passion" show in HCM City on November 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Feature films and documentaries from 31 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific are to be shown at the Ha Noi International Film Festival which opened yesterday, Nov 25.

Spain cuts funding for Metro Line No. 5; HCM City yet to start tunnel toll collection; Exports hit over US$104 billion in 11 months; Over US$12 billion in FDI; November CPI rises 0.47 percent; Trade surplus worth US$64 million

 The Rolling Stones were set to rock London on Sunday in their first stadium concert for five years as the band mark half a century together.

 A record 247 million U.S. shoppers visited stores and websites over Thanksgiving weekend, up from 226 million last year, according to an industry survey released on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phan Thi Ha Thanh and Nguyen Ha Thanh won two gold medals at the World Gymnastics Championships 2012 in the Czech Republic.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s representative at the Mr. World 2012 pageant, Truong Nam Thanh, won the Mr. Fashion title and entered the top ten contestants in the final night on November 24 in the UK.

 Vietnam, Italy step up solidarity; President Sang hears voters’ suggestions; RoK inspectors, auditors on Vietnam visit; Party leader works in Dong Thap Province; Russian professor honoured with Friendship Order

 VietNamNet Bridge – The seventh National Buddhist Congress re-ordained the Most Venerable Thich Pho Tue as Patriarch of the Viet Nam Buddhist Sangha's Patronage Council at its closing ceremony in Ha Noi on Saturday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Artisan Le Duc Vy, 63, from Da Nang city, has been recognized as the first Vietnamese who can “print” color pictures on stone, using a digital technique.

At the age of 40, some businessmen managed to obtain the stock assets worth trillions of dong. The total stock assets of the 30 richest businessmen among them have reached 8 trillion dong.

Thua Thien–Hue province has opened the "Borders and islands of Vietnam" exhibition to widely broadcast materials and exhibits that confirm the legal and historical values of Vietnam's sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa Islands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Vinh on November 23 discussed with the press the outcome of the recent 21st ASEAN Summit and the prospect of an ASEAN Community by 2015.

While Vietnamese students feel excited with the new teaching method applied by foreign teachers, their parents, who have generation differences with their children, have expressed their worry that the new method may do more harm than good.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The nation should prepare to lower the inflation rate and speed up economic growth next year as Viet Nam entered a new development phase, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung said last Friday.