Frenchman Gael Monfil supset top seeded Rafael Nadal, while defending champion Roger Federer pulled out of the Qatar Open for back injury on Friday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Quang Ninh province have decided to paint all tourist boats in Ha Long Bay in white, despite boat owners’ disagreement.

Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber will promote Vietnamese toys at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 10, said CES’s official website.

Despite achievements in curbing inflation and macro-economic stabilization, the Vietnamese monetary market last year still remained unstable.

VietNamNet Bridge – Filmmakers are spending a lot on special effects in the hope of luring moviegoers to cinemas this coming Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays.

VietNamNet Bridge – A memorial house to celebrate the life of late writer Kim Lan has been inaugurated in Ha Noi.

The procuracy sector should accelerate the settlement of key cases and those attracting public attention, and devise a project to renew the organisational system of People's Procuracies at all levels and enhance personnel training

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 80 poets from throughout the world will gather in Viet Nam next month to take part in the first Asia Pacific Poetry Festival.

The enterprises operating in the tourism sector have proposed government agencies to allow them to quote the prices of products and services in popular foreign currencies such as Euro or US dollars, instead of Vietnam dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hospital overload, the quality of health services, human resources and food safety topped the list of issues raised by members of the public to health minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien on Saturday during an on-line dialogue.

The prices of many kinds of plastic bags have been increasing dramatically in the last few days. Especially, some package shops have closed the doors these days, which has made the plastic bag supply short.

Amid the worries about the low efficiency of outward investment and the foreign currency bleeding, the Ministry of Planning and Investment MPI plans to apply a series of drastic measures to manage the outward investment.

VietNamNet Bridge – An own-goal by Becamex Binh Duong's goalkeeper Dinh Hoang La resulted in victory for Ha Noi T&T yesterday, Jan 9, in the second round match of the Super-League.

Nguyen Tu Quang, General Director of BKAV, a well known Vietnamese anti-virus solution provider, on January 4, announced that BKAV has successfully bought back the bkav.com domain name from a US Company at 2.3 billion dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – Biodiversity and the natural environment in central Viet Nam are being increasingly degraded due to economic development,

VietNamNet Bridge – University and college students with the desire to help keep their country healthy donated 350 units of blood during this year's first blood donation day which was dubbed Red Sunday 2012

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday that the U.S. rescue of 13 Iranian sailors from captivity by Somali pirates is a "humanitarian" action.

Most of universities have voiced their support to the Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) decision to set up a new group of exam – A1 – for university enrolments.

Talented French professor of Vietnamese descent Bui Huy Duong wishes to spend the rest of his life helping Vietnam develop a safe nuclear industry, considering this his final project.

VietNamNet Bridge – Coach Falko Goetz met with officials of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on January 5 to put an end to their contract.