Laos grants Freedom Order to Vietnamese Party’s departments; Promoting Vietnam’s image to the world; Laos to preserve Ho Chi Minh Trail; 13 Vietnamese sailors rescued in East Sea; Party delegation visits Hue Archbishop Office

VietNamNet Bridge – Individuals and organizations contributed nearly VND1 trillion ($500 million) to Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary, announced the city authorities on December 25.

VietNamNet Bridge - Five anti-corruption activists are to be honoured for their contribution in the anti-corruption fight at the National Patriotic Emulation Congress held today.

Bond liquidity gets a boost; Shipping firm beats forecasts; Agricultural product exports top US$19.15 billion in 2010; FDI inflows lower than target, total $18.6 billion; VN-Index slightly restores

VietNamNet Bridge - Scores of local banks have found it hard to achieve 2010 profit targets despite modest ambitions.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many new policies that will have significant impacts on the domestic market will be applied as of January 1, 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mister International 2010 Ryan Terry from Great Britain is now in Vietnam as a jury member of the first beauty pageant for men in Vietnam – Mister Vietnam 2010.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City needs to call for investment from diverse sectors instead of relying exclusively on subsidies to improve its bus service and attract more passengers, industry insiders say.

Over VND33 billion raised for poor children; Vietnamese fishing ships take shelter in China’s island; Two Agribank employees arrested in alleged loan scams; Unity houses handed over to the poor in Kon Tum

VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang City is set to substantially raise the price of clean water at the beginning of next year, with new costs as high as double the current rates, the municipal administration has said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi Christian Fellowship (HCF) has been allegedly organising illegal activities and fabricating stories about the administration's oppression of Protestants.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite its environmental advantages, non-baked bricks have yet to gain a market in Viet Nam, chairman of the Viet Nam Association for Building Materials Tran Van Huynh says.

VietNamNet Bridge – Burgeoning transportation needs have seen a surge in the establishment of illegal bus stations on many HCM City streets of late, worsening an already bad traffic congestion and urban pollution problem.

VietNamNet Bridge – The impact of climate change will cost the two economic hubs, Hai Phong City and Dong Nai Province, 1.25% of their GDP each year, a study by the Institute of Hydro-meteorological and Environmental Sciences has found.

VietNamNet Bridge – Educators and parents are concerned that many of the most popular books for children, especially those translated from foreign languages, contain too much violence and other adult content.

VietNamNet Bridge – While society's traditional values are fading little by little, there is a man who continues to maintain a large collection of small terra-cotta statues, antique coins and ancient Chinese script books.

VietNamNet Bridge – Individual contributions were recognised for the first time at the 30th annual television festival that ended yesterday in the southern city of Can Tho.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Nguyen Uyen Linh beat Van Mai Huong in a vote of mobile phone users to be named ‘Vietnam Idol 2010', in a live televised finale in HCM City on Saturday night.

Eighth National Patriotic Emulation Congress to open on Dec 27; Book on Vietnam-Laos special relations appraised; Cambodian, Vietnamese parliamentarians boost cooperation

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam News Agency has selected ten highlights of Vietnam in 2010 which record the country’s development over the year.

A hotpot restaurant in China's northern Shandong province has unveiled its new staff - a team of robots. Automated waiters and female robot dancers move between tables, offering trays of food and drinks.

Universal Studio's comedy " Little Fockers" has notched a win over the Academy Award favorite "True Grit" over the Christmas weekend, taking in 34 million dollars in ticket stub sales in North America box office,

With the United States’ debt now slightly higher than GDP, long-term market view is getting riskier.

South Korea on Sunday reported two more foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks as the high contagious appears to be spreading faster in the country.

1,500 delegates from around the country are about to be honored at the 8th National Patriotic Emulation Congress, which opened in Hanoi on Monday.