Twin U.S. spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core put themselves into the lunar orbit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the country's space agency said.

State Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan says she hopes the SOS Children’s Villages International will continue to support Vietnam in the future, especially in building the two villages in Thai Binh and Gia Lai. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of the France Vietnam (FV) Hospital in HCM City and American doctor McKay McKinnon will perform operation on the 90kg tumor of Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, from Da Lat city, Lam Dong province.

The heavy floods in Thailand have led to the computer hardware prices increasing continuously. The computer market in the year-end sale season is gloomy because the price has become double.

A lot of university students are now working part time at supermarkets, serving the high year-end sale season to earn money for Tet celebration.

The southern province of Hau Giang recently detected the first outbreak of bird flu in a household raising 450 chickens in Long My district.

Vietnam’s foreign affairs activities have greatly contributed to national development, taking advantage of external resources and protecting national interests and territorial integrity.

Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday told the U.S. peace envoy to the Middle East, David Hale, that the Palestinians are committed to a serious peace process with Israel.

The health authorities declared an outbreak of a deadly rat fever on Monday in the flood-hit areas in the southern Philippines.

Economists have warned that the difficulties of 2011 would continue in 2012, and that manufacturers should not put too high hopes on the consumption demand increases in 2012.

Vietnam's top chess player - Grand Master Le Quang Liem and Miss Vietnam World 2010 Ngo Phuong Lan will represent Vietnam at the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay in Manchester, the United Kingdom in June 2012.  

Cambodia's Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday that at least 72 Cambodian children had been killed by dengue fever in 2011, an increase of 89 percent, compared with the 2010's deaths of 38 kids.

Iran successfully test-fired long- and short-range missiles during its military drill in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, state media reported.

As of December 30, Vietnam has 627 investment projects in 55 countries and territories with a total registered capital of US$10.8 billion, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

VietNamNet Bridge - A fisherman in Phu Dien commune, Phu Vang district, in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue province caught a rare turtle of 85kg in weight and 85cm long on January 2.

VN targets $11 bln in FDI disbursement; Cement, iron stocks need to be cleared; Vietnam garment hanger faces suits in US; VN among top 10 nations with highest remittances; Land, house taxes may be used for infrastructure

Vietnam painted a bright economic picture in 2011 as it earned more than US$96 billion from exports, up 33 percent against 2010, and reduced the trade deficit to US$10 billion.

Chairs cum chiefs of Traffic Safety Steering Boards of seven provinces have been criticized by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, for the increase of traffic accidents and victims of traffic accidents in 2010 and 2011 in their provinces.

Viet Nam's stock market extended the December falling streak, with the VN-Index losing 7.7 per cent and the HNX-Index down 2.9 per cent over the previous month. Investor sentiment hit the lowest point of the year as well.

Two days after the U.S. sanctions on Iran's central bank was announced, Iran's currency, rial, presented a significant slump against the U.S. dollar.

The authorities arrested a man early on Monday suspected of setting 53 arson fires in and around Hollywood which rattled Los Angeles residents over the New Year's weekend.

A hormone derived from visceral fat called adiponectin may play a role as a risk factor for development of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease in women, according to a study published on Monday in online issue of the Archives of Neurology.

VietNamNet Bridge – Serious gridlocks occurred at Hanoi’s western and southern gateways on the afternoon of January 2, when hundreds of thousands of people returned to the city after the three-day New Year holiday.

Vietnam enters top five Asian beauty contest list; Russian TV channel spotlights Vietnam; Local unearths Dong Son bronze drum; Urban transformation in ‘Born from the Land’; Vietnamese acrobats win prizes at circus competition  

The Ministry of Education and Training announced Friday its decision to ban three colleges and universities from taking in new students in 2012, and another decision to have four international training facilities stop unlicensed training programs.