VietNamNet Bridge – The city's two inter-provincial coach stations should secure enough tickets for passengers on peak days before Tet (Lunar New Year), according to the deputy permanent chairman of HCM City People's Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam would have to train between 28,000 and 36,000 medical staff yearly to satisfy the forecasted national demand of 372,500 medical staff by 2015 and 480,000 by 2020,

Software giant Microsoft said on Wednesday it sold more than 2 million copies of its new Windows Phone 7 operating system to handset makers in 2010.

The blue-chip Dow broke through the psychologically important 12,000 mark on Wednesday for the first time in two and a half years, but edged lower in afternoon trading.

Russia would not negotiate with terrorists, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, local media reported.

Hong Kong Ocean Park launched a new flagship marine-themed zone - "Aqua City" on Wednesday, in the hope that these fresh attractions will bring 15 percent more tourists to the theme park.

World No. 1 Rafael Nadal on Wednesday shockingly crashed out of the tournament, while Andy Murray, Vera Zvonareva and Kim Clijsters continue their battle into semi finals of Australian Open.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his opening address at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Wednesday with a call for tougher action against terrorism, two days after a bomb blast at a Moscow airport killed 35 people.

Laos awards ex-NA leaders Freedom medals; Vietnam rejects erroneous remarks on human rights situation; Vietnamese, Russian businesses and pressmen meet in Moscow; Vietnam, Mozambique sign cooperation agreement

VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong paid a visit to staff at the National Assembly Office yesterday on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival, which falls on February 3.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program, an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred offshore Vietnam today at 2:24pm (185km from HCM City).

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong and British Ambassador to Vietnam, Dr. Antony Stokes have signed the Vietnam-UK 2011 Action Plan which sets out a wide range of new initiatives on all seven pillars

VietNamNet Bridge – Power companies in northern Viet Nam have agreed to release valuable water from storage reservoirs to help farmers overcome severe drought.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand yesterday, Jan 26, reached an agreement to protect water quality in the Mekong River against emerging threats.

VietNamNet Bridge – The recent cold spells in the northern and north central regions have caused an estimated loss of VND130 billion (US$6.63 million) for the animal husbandry sector,

VietNamNet Bridge – For Associate Professor Tran Hoang Linh, teaching is fun but a busy lecturing schedule keeps him away from his true love, research.

VietNamNet Bridge - Khieu Thi Huyen Trang, 21, from Bac Giang Province won the first Viet Nam's Next Top Model competition on January 23 in HCM City. 

The European Union (EU) will continue its aid assistance for Vietnam even when Vietnam joins the group of middle-income countries, Chief of the EU mission to Vietnam Sean Doyle and Hungarian Ambassador Vizi Laszlo confirmed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Writer and literary critic Hoang Ngoc Hien died here on Monday of colon cancer. He was 81.

VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of people in HCM City and Ha Noi began visiting the annual spring flower festival that opened last night, Jan 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – Paris-based Vietnamese artist Le Ba Dang has donated his unique collection of 12 cat sketches to the city of Hue on the occasion of Viet Nam's Year of the Cat.

A truck carrying beer hit the banister of Ben Thuy Bridge in Nghe An province and was upturned on the morning of January 26. Thousands of boxes of beers and beer cans felt to the road, causing chaos because locals rushed to pick up beer boxes.

VietNamNet Bridge – A collection of new songs by composer Le Van Tuan will be featured tonight, Jan 27, at the Opera House with eight members of the HCM City Symphony Orchestra.

VietNamNet Bridge – Increased use of taxis in cold weather, people going shopping or arranging last minute business has created the worst traffic in Ha Noi to date.  Almost all roads are gridlocked several times a day.

HCMC massage-parlor owner faces 11-13 years in jail; Da Nang newborn badly burnt, leg amputated; Smuggling cattle from Cambodia for Tet; Food shortage due to cold-related deaths; 100 escape death in triple road accident