blog of don ca tai tu (Southern amateur music) by Professor Tran Quang Hai has attracted a large number of visitors with over 330 articles, since its establishment in August.

Despite suffering a 2-1 loss to Indonesia on Wednesday, Malaysia still won their first title at Southeast Asian football championship with a 4-2 win in total after two legs.

A documentary with shocking scenes about hunting wildlife has won the first prize of the 4th Environmental Film Festival, which closed in Hanoi on December 29.

An online auction to raise funds for the Foundation for the Poor was successfully organized, collecting VND3.1 billion (over $150,000), including VND1 billion for an unique bronze drum that was cast for Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary.

A Chinese newspaper on December 27 reported that many Chinese companies publicly advertised technology to produce fake eggs. The Vietnamese Food Safety Agency on December 28 confirmed that it had not detected fake eggs in Vietnam.

Every university just covers an area of some thousands of square meters, or some hundreds of square meters. Therefore, educators have every reason to worry about the quality of the pedagogical environment.

Information technology (IT) experts believe that it is very necessary to build up e-governments in localities. However, they have also warned that this will be a difficult job because of infrastructural problems.

In 2010, the ups and downs in the gold, foreign currency and real estate markets made a lot of people suffer. VnMedia reviews the most important economic events which may continue having impacts in the next year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign tax evaders in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong province will have to pay back their tax infringements.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Police are to crack down on coaches and motorbikes that break traffic laws starting this week. This is to ensure road safety during the lunar New Year festival in early February.

VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities have failed to control the quality of children's toys and recent inspections have found that many products, particularly imported ones, are being sold without conformity of regulation (CR) or safety stamps.

VietNamNet Bridge – More services should be made available to women who opted to marry foreign husbands to help save them from falling prey to illegal marriage brokers,

VietNamNet Bridge – The city's inter-sectoral inspectors uncovered violations of food hygiene and safety in some local markets and super-markets in a raid conducted last weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City needs to create a legal approach so that it can successfully develop programmes to cope with climate change, experts have said.

VietNamNet Bridge – A network of enterprises that provides employment services for disabled people made its debut in the central city of Da Nang yesterday, Dec 29.

VietNamNet Bridge – A project to build an eco-village in Tien Chuong Commune in the central province of Ha Tinh to prompt increasing awareness of the need for environment protection started yesterday, Dec 29.

VietNamNet Bridge – The US government is sponsoring a cooperative programme on growing subsidiary crops in Vietnam and Cambodia, said the US embassy.

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League club Song Lam Nghe An plan to open a football academy as part of an ongoing project with the assistance of the English Premier League's Liverpool FC next year, announced the team chairman Nguyen Hong Thanh yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Golf Association (VGA) is developing a programme to identify talented young golfers in schools across the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Malaysia beat Indonesia 4-2 on aggregate to win the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup for the first time in the country's history yesterday in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Argentine Lionel Messi was named the best soccer player in Europe for the second straight year by European newspapers, said the Uruguayan newspaper El Pais, in a survey published on Wednesday.

Germany's average inflation rate stood at 1.1 percent for the whole year, while it unexpectedly accelerated in December, the Federal Statistics Office said Wednesday.

Cuban scientists are designing treatment plans and medicines by using nanotechnology to fight cancer, an official said Sunday.

Cote d'Ivoire's new envoy to the United Nations, veteran diplomat Youssouf Bamba, on Wednesday presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon.

Several U.S. airlines said Tuesday that they are raising airfares on domestic routes as air travel is boosted by the Christmas-New Year holiday season and the industry is facing rising fuel prices.