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

The Ministry of Planning and Investment will carry out inspections of tourism and recreational-property projects in the central city of Da Nang and five other provinces to determine their feasibility, according to the Ministry's plan for this year.

Picking the nose with a driller, hooking an iron hook onto the eyelid to pull a car, holding onto a whirling propeller with the tongue are among bloodcurdling items performed by Chinese artists in Hanoi.

Mobifone has announced its performance results for 2010 with a revenue growth rate of 31.5 per cent. The revenue was valued at VND36 trillion ($1.8 billion), making up around 35 per cent of its parent VNPT Group’s total revenue last year.

VietNamNet Bridge - After being ranked as the most optimistic nation in the world by a Gallup poll, Vietnam is now rated the world’s 61st happiest nation according to the latest Prosperity Index recently released by a UK think tank.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government has approved a General Department of Taxation proposal to extend the declaration of value added tax (VAT) for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and family-run businesses.

VietNamNet Bridge - Since the Tet shopping season is now at its peak, queuing in long lines to check out at overcrowded supermarkets has become an unwelcome reality for most shoppers in Ho Chi Minh City.

VietNamNet Bridge – In spring weather, ong do (calligraphers) wearing ao dai’s and turbans as they perform calligraphy on the street attracts attention.

VietNamNet Bridge – Diplomats and representatives of the UNESCO Vietnam on January 23 take a study tour at the Ho Dynasty Citadel in Thanh Hoa province to evaluate the architectural and historical values of this work.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet visited his primary school teacher. The newly elected Communist Party’s Central Committee’s Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong drove his motorbike to visit his old teacher.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Viet Nam's south will need between VND 7 and 8 trillion (US$350-400million) each year by 2015 for developing transmission networks to meet the increasing demand.

“Bóng ma học đường” delves into issues faced by teens with relation to family, love, and school violenceThree eagerly awaited Tet releases -- “Thien su 99”, “Bong ma hoc duong,” and “Co dau dai chien” -- all star hot actors and actresses.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Vietnam’s point of view is not receiving foreign unskilled workers,” said Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

VietNamNet captured the Kitchen God festival in Hanoi, which felt on January 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam protests China’s provision of the online mapping service named Map World, which shows the nine-dotted line in the East Sea, said Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga on January 26.

A bronze-made statue of the Mitreya Buddha of 10m high and 80 tons in weight has been recognized as the biggest statue of its kind in Vietnam by the Vietnam Record Book Center (Vietkings).

The Consumer Price Index this month increased strongly by 1.74 per cent against December mainly due to food price hikes, ranking second after the record growth of 2.38 per cent in January 2008, the General Statistics Office reported yesterday.

Chickens at a poultry farm in Japan' s southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima have tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, local government officials said Wednesday.

It is no secret that Beijing is a particularly dry place to live compared with many other capital cities, especially in winter.

VietNamNet Bridge – In over a week, nearly 100 schoolgirls of the Son Thanh Junior and High School in Tay Hoa district, the central province of Phu Yen fainted.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 10-hectare Thanh Long Sports Center in HCM City will be sold to a banker, a manager of the sports center said on January 23.

Oil giant earns $2.1b in January; World Bank arm buys into Vietnam state-owned bank; Stable fertiliser prices predicted; US firm to build solar cell plant in HCM City; Liberty ranks best in business performance

The Ministry of Finance has turned down a proposal by the Viet Nam Gold Traders Association to reduce the export tax of gold and gold jewelry, announcing yesterday that the current tax rate of 10 per cent would remain in effect.

VietNamNet Bridge - Computer viruses will continue to thrive in Viet Nam this year as internet-users ignore the consequences of installing fake software online, the Bach Khoa Anti-virus centre said in their "2010 Virus Review".