Japan's core machinery orders rose a seasonally-adjusted 14.8 percent in November from a month earlier last year to 788.9 billion yen (10.25 billion U.S. dollars), marking the first increase in three months,

VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue still plough, sow seeds and transplant rice seedlings for the fifth-month crop in very cold weather. Many people have to wear raincoats or drink hot tea to keep their bodies warm.

China's economy expanded by 9.2 percent in 2011 from a year earlier and 8.9 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday.

S&P revises Vietcombank’s outlook to stable; Firms issue shares under face value; Vietnam raises 1.88 trillion dong in its first auction in 2012; Local products target overseas supermarkets; Firms struggle to pay workers Tet bonuses      

VietNamNet Bridge – One who used to carry a nearly 90kg tumor, one whose face was covered by a tumor and one with thousands of tumors on her body are recovering well after their surgeries.

Parkson hosts Tet lion dance contest; Tet flower markets open in HCM City; My Tam and Karik top music video award; Photo exhibition focuses on sea and island tourism; MoU signed on setting up Laos Records Book Centre; 

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of Hanoi’s Vietnam-Germany Hospital on January 15 successfully conducted four organ transplantation surgeries at the same time, using organs donated by a man of nearly 30.

The death toll from the wreck of an Italian cruise liner rose to six on Monday as another body was found, Italy's ANSA news agency said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training plans to ask the Government to allocate land and funds from the State budget to develop preschool education in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Lunar New Year parties in HCM City.

The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations met on January 16 to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and China (January 18, 1950).

Four Vietnamese crewmen who suffered from severe burns after their fishing vessel Jeong Woo 2 caught fire offshore New Zealand waters on January 1, have underwent surgeries and are now in stable health conditions.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials and business representatives from 10 ASEAN member countries gathered in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Jan. 16 to discuss opportunities and challenges from free trade agreements (FTAs)

A green rice-field, a blossom maize field, a water-melon field, dishcloth gourd trellis, a country wharf with a bamboo bridge, ferry-boats… are the image of Vietnamese countryside which appear at the Spring Flower Festival held in Phu My Hung.

The Ministry of Finance's Price Management Department has announced that it would continue to control the prices of necessary goods this year in a bid to ensure market stability.

The government seems to be very determined to fine-tune state-owned economic groups, when it hold a significant meeting in December 2011 that focused on these “great businesses” that was presided over by the PM and two Deputy PMs.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam already boasts a thriving merchant ship construction sector, and has also built some coastal paramilitary craft in recent years. Now, the country is emerging as a warship builder.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the end of the lunar year, people rush to see fortune-tellers to know about what will happen in the New Year and to seek suitable people as the first New Year’s caller.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reaffirmed that there will be a sufficient supply of essential food to meet demand during and after the Tet holiday (Lunar New Year Festival).

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's SaiGon Heat lost to defending champions Chang Thailand Slammers 58-78 in the first round of the AirAsia ASEAN Basketball League Champions on Sunday in Thailand.