VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) to make an effective administration at a meeting to implement the ministry’s task for 2011 in Hanoi on February 12.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Viet Nam Railway Corporation started work to strengthen railway infrastructure on the North-South route in central Ha Tinh Province yesterday following instructions from Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dao people in Ta Phin, Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province on February 10 organized the early year singing festival to pray for health, love and good harvest.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has ordered its members to buy 1 million tons of rice from farmers and stock the amount for three months to keep up the price for the grain.

VietNamNet Bridge – University graduates of less than 30 years old will have an opportunity to become vice chairs of 600 communes in Vietnam, under a US$10.25 million project which has been approved by the prime minister.

VietNamNet Bridge - Commercial banks posted solid earnings in 2010 with an average growth in profit of over 20 per cent, most of which came from lending and foreign exchange trading.

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh has completely recovered from his knee injury and will re-join the V-League from the third round, in the game between Hanoi T&T and SHB Da Nang next week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Until February 10, some Vietnamese athletes bagging medals at the ASIAD 16 in China in November last year have yet received any cash awards promised previously by the government.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman finally got married and it was the happy ending of a 31-year love story.

VietNamNet Bridge - Danang will become more attractive to tourists and individual investors seeking second homes in the central region.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Construction Ministry has proposed an increase in housing subsidies as a part of employee wages with an aim to help them resolve difficulties in accessing cheap accommodation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Joe Jackson, 82, the father of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, arrived in Vietnam February 11 to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of a five-star hotel project in the southern province of Long An.

VietNamNet Bridge - Physical education at all levels in Vietnam has been notorious for cultivating in students a hatred for sports with its rigid grading system, joyless drill and limited offerings.

Shoemakers build on success; In-bound tourists up 20 percent during Tet; Sales boom in imported electronics; Portfolio investors likely to return; Tuna exports keep growing

VietNamNet Bridge - Vo Hong Quan, a vocal music student at the Virty-sur-Seine Music College, was crowned Miss Spring 2011 at a beauty contest for Vietnamese students in France on February 12

VietNamNet Bridge - The State Capital Investment Corp (SCIC) is looking to divest 281 enterprises and to sell the entire State stake in 170 local enterprises, General Director Lai Van Dao told a recent meeting.

With quality improvement, Vietnam’s exports of dragon fruit have increased dramatically. Meanwhile, rambutan is prepared to re-enter the US after the lifting of the ban on the Vietnamese fruit, expected to take place this month.

VietNamNet Bridge - A Wednesday article by Live Science magazine reporting that Vietnam recorded unusually high numbers of shark attacks in 2010 is unreliable, said a local expert.

Local food traders at a meeting in HCMC on Thursday reached a consensus that there should be no rush to export rice in the first few months of the year to ensure maximum benefits for the country.

Thousands of people are flocking to Vietnam’s first university – Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in the early of the lunar year to pray for an auspicious year. Many of them scatter small change everywhere, a kind of “pollution” at this solemn place.