VietNamNet Bridge – Below are the latest pictures of the street of calligraphers, which opens annually before the lunar New Year festival on the pavement around Hanoi’s Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature).

Software outsourcing off to a good start; More flats for sale this month; Oversupply likely to drag sugar price down; Three card switching systems to be merged; Seafood exporters see growth in value-added products  

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s national football team has remained in the lead of Southeast Asian despite dropping two notches to 101st position in the FIFA rankings for January 2012.

On January 19, a delegation of the Party Central Committee, the State President’s Office, the National Assembly, the Government paid floral tribute to the late President Ho Chi Minh at his Mausoleum in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several days before Tet holiday, many roads in Hanoi are stuck even at noon.

Fears of environmental disaster exist as sea storms may cause fuel leaks from the cruise liner which ran aground off Italy's western coast, environment minister Corrado Clini said on Wednesday.

The Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday that it will raise 500 billion U.S. dollars in additional resources to beef up its firewall, amid mounting worries over the ongoing eurozone debt crisis.

A made in Vietnam robot by the TOSY Robotics Joint Stock Company has been selected as the best music gadget in the world by the Huffington Post, a US online magazine. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Intensive preparations, including the decorating of hundreds of trees with lights, have been made by HCM City to greet Tet (Lunar New Year) from January 22-25.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese models Nhu Thao, Doan Tuan and Minh Vuong were honored at the Asian Model Festival and the Young Faces of Asia in Seoul on January 17 and 18.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday stressed the need to find out "emergency measures to protect jobs."

For the last one or two months, many Hanoians have been hurriedly looking for the places where they can leave cats and dogs when they are away on Tet holiday.

With global economic growth prospects dampened by the ongoing eurozone crisis, the World Bank has sharply lowered its global economic growth forecast and suggested effective policy actions from different countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has announced to suspend four players who involved in incidents in the third round of the Super League 2012.

VietNamNet Bridge – Near Tet holiday, flower, bonsai, decorative item and confectionary shops are very crowded. Prices for most of products have increased.

VietNamNet Bridge – The third preliminary conference for the second Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was held in New Delhi on January 16-17.

After the Day of Kitchen God (January 17), people begin flocking to flower markets. Here are pictures taken at flower markets in the three cities of Hanoi, Hue and Da Nang.

 Organ transplants a success; Ten Vietnamese fishermen in Thai custody;  Fire destroys 22 homes in Soc Trang; Lunar New Year celebrated abroad

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday showed no sign of giving ground to market calls for boosting her country's contribution to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), after massive downgrades of eurozone nations

Nowadays, when domestic banks tighten consumer credit and say “no” to the individual who borrow money to buy cars or houses, foreign banks have jumped on the bandwagon by offering attractive credit services.