VietNamNet Bridge – The Government Inspectorate should crack down on violations in key sectors, including finance, banking, management of State Budget funds - and on the import and export industry,

 Former poor district in City now poverty free; Nearly VND400 billion for policy beneficiaries during Tet; Scholarships for disadvantaged; Safe food push ramped up

VietNamNet Bridge – In the last minute, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) unexpectedly added striker Le Cong Vinh to the list of the national football team.

VietNamNet Bridge – Waves immerged a fishing vessel of the central province of Binh Thuan, killing one man. Many other ships were also damaged by the first storm of 2013 in the East Sea – storm Sonamu.

Nearly 10 days since the decree on funeral of public employees takes effect, the Ministry of Justice’s Legal Document Inspection Bureau has requested to review the decree on organizing funerals of public employees.

A lot of investors had to transfer real estate projects in 2012 when their money got exhausted. Though the real estate market was frozen, it is now still the right time to make investment in the real estate sector, when the prices get cheaper.

“Chiec Khan Pieu,” a song compiled by Doan Nho over 50 years ago, re-mixed by Nguyen Le and performed by Tung Duong, won the 2012 Song of the Year award with the huge bonus of $50,000 for the singer and $15,000 for the composer.

VietNamNet Bridge – The coach of Song Lam Nghe An FC came first in the Fairplay Award poll 2012.

The one-week prolonged cold weather has no sign of ending as in the next two days, another enhanced cold air is coming. The average temperature is forecast at 11-14 degrees Celsius and only 7-10 degrees Celsius in the mountains.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong and representatives of the People’s Supreme Procuracy to work with the police of Hai Phong to hear reports about the Tien Lang case again.

The world's top banking regulatory body on Sunday eased the first global liquidity rules scheduled to start applying to banks in 2015 and aimed at improving their ability to survive financial crises.

 Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh’s 55,354 points have secured him 8th place in the newest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.

HCM City has over 250,000 workers in the industrial and export-processing zones. Up to 70%  of them come from other provinces. Everyone wants the family reunion during the lunar New Year, but many workers "don't dare" to return home...

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tropical Storm Sonamu, the first of its kind in this year, would drop in intensity and become a tropical low pressure in the next two days, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecast.

 Temperatures of around 10 Celsius degrees have been associated with a higher-than-usual number of elderly people and children requiring treatment for respiratory and cardiovascular-related diseases in recent days, doctors say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Thi Binh enjoyed a satisfying end to the weekend by defending her title in the women's category of the annual Ba Ra Mountain Climbing Race in Binh Phuoc Province.

 The top Republican in the US Senate warned President Barack Obama on Sunday that he is willing to use the debt ceiling as "leverage" to end the administration's "massive spending addiction".

Confirming that the Hanoi Party Committee considers one of its priorities in civil servant recruitment is preventing corruption, but Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi admitted that there are still “gaps.”

Rumors have been spread out that Air Mekong, a private airline, may have to stop flying because of the big debts it cannot pay to partners.

 The European Central Bank will usher in 2013 with steady interest rates at its first policy meeting this year to keep up the pressure on governments to solve the debt crisis, analysts predict.

 Air pollution in Tehran has left 4,460 people dead in a year, an Iranian health official said in reports Sunday, with another sounding the alarm over high dose of carcinogens in domestically-made petrol.

  Duma delegation visits Ninh Thuan power plant site; Party leader tours Lao Cai Province; Party leader visits Yen Bai

VietNamNet Bridge - "Compared to the old version, the draft Constitution for the comments of people has a new point: it does not specify the state economic sector as the mainstream," said National Assembly Vice Chairman - Uong Chu Luu.

The Stork Island in Hai Duong Province is now the home to 16,000 storks and some 5,000 night herons that have been living on the three floating strips of land of the An Duong lake, the place with the most diversified ecosystem in the north.

Conducting transfer pricing, evading tax, running away with unpaid debts – all of the behaviors of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) have caused big headaches to the Vietnamese management agencies.