New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that babies born in the city in 2009 have the record high life expectancy of 80.6 years, an increase of nearly three years since 2000.

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) Nguyen Trong Hy believes that the federation will have a new Secretary General within one month, to replace Tran Quoc Tuan.

Vietnamese products centre promoted in Berlin; Hitachi Transport to launch logistics business in Vietnam; HCM City automakers to form park; Vietnam’s exports earn nearly US$95 bil this year; 45 best made-in-Vietnam products awarded  

The country’s state-owned enterprises (SOE) will be put into four categories by 2015, and prohibited from investing in non-core sectors, according to the draft on the SOE restructuring developed by the Ministry of Finance.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese contestant ranked 15th at the Miss Tourism Queen International pageant in China, which closed on December 27. The beauty queen is Kantapat Peeradachainarin from Thailand.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 27, announced the top ten tourism and culture events of the year.

Making wrong decisions in the two first rounds of the National Cup, referees Kieu Viet Hung and Nguyen Quoc Hung will have no chance at the V-League 2012, which has been re-named as Super League, Vietnam’s top professional football event.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Museum of Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta has opened an exhibition of unique potteries, collected by Vo Minh Man and Tran Quoc Doan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Police of the central province of Ha Tinh on December 26, detected the largest wildlife trafficking case in the province so far. Nearly two tons of wild animals, including snakes, turtles and iguanas were seized.

Both investors and listed companies have experienced a very difficult year 2011. The Club of Securities Journalists has announced the 10 most outstanding events of the stock market as follows.

Following is the world's top sports news in 2011 selected by Xinhua News Agency: 1. The first ever FIFA Ballon d'Or award, which has merged the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the France Football's Ballon d'Or award, was awarded

VietNamNet Bridge – Cho Ray Hospital will cure two young women who suffer from strange diseases, said the hospital’s director Nguyen Truong Son.

U.S. police Tuesday identified the shooter and victims of a Christmas Day murder-suicide in which seven family members died.

Japan helps fight super bacteria; Man honored for rescuing ten in Hoi An shipwreck; Animal diseases drop during course of year; Man stabbed in front of Vung Tau club

Eight Palestinians were moderately injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza city on Tuesday night, hours after an earlier air raid killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the area, medical sources said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A family in Long Hai town, Long Dien district in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has unexpectedly felt in tragedy just because of a wasps’ nest.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two days at the Topas Ecolodge resort in Sapa, Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend stayed in a special bungalow and enjoyed a lot of Vietnamese cuisines.

VietNamNet Bridge – Seven provinces have sought help to ease food shortages in the lead-up to the Tet holiday, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said.

The stock price sharp falls have led to the number of Vietnamese stock millionaires decreasing dramatically from 450 in 2010 to 270 in 2011.

Vietnam’s Next Top Models in Singapore; RoK provides 3.5 mln USD for Hue master plan; “Little Frog” dazzles Vietnam’s Got Talent; Well-known local private galleries to be closed

The four works of art announced for the auction programme are Soul of the Vietnamese cup, Thang Long Vase, Carps Transforming to Dragons, and Thang Long’s Sonority.

VietNamNet Bridge – Sixteen-year-old Nguyen Hoang Thien has qualified for the Australian Open Junior Championships U18 Tournament which will take place on January 22-28.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese vessel Vinalines Queen manned by 23 sailors was reported to have lost contact with its company Vinalines Shipping, since Sunday.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Wednesday bid final farewell to the nation's late leader Kim Jong Il.

VietNamNet Bridge – The largest tourist development project in Viet Nam will start in eight northwestern mountain provinces next year.