VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of visitors from many countries were warmly welcomed at the Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat International Airports in the morning of January 1 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Can Tho Oil Refinery, the fist joint venture between a Vietnamese company and a foreign partner, seems to have found a way out after the US partner unexpectedly withdrew.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranks the twelfth among 181 countries showing tourism growth potentials in the ten years, according a global tourism organization.

Lower lending rate promised; Timber products earn $3.3b in exports;  Work on $600 mln southern theme park to start in Feb; Noteworthy M&A deals spawn in HCMC realty sector 2010; Vietnam eyes $20 bln in FDI next year

“Parks for children are places for social evils. Many couples engage in personal activities that are inappropriate for public places,” a student proposed in a meeting with HCM City authorities.

Nguyen Thi Minh Chuyen from the northern province of Ha Nam was crowned the Best Singer at the finale held at Ho Chi Minh City-based Maximart Stadium Sunday night.

Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunication, Tran Duc Lai, cautioned that the telecom market will cool down in 2011 as the number of subscribers has been saturated.

A list of projects to be executed in Vietnam in 2011 includes Taiwan’s Wintek Corporation’s touch screen production plant in Bac Giang, Hewlett Packard opening a software testing company and other projects in Hoa Lac and Saigon Hi-Tech parks.

Can Tho international airport, one of the Mekong Delta’s most important infrastructure developments, inaugurated last week.

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate developers will expose stronger competition with abundance of glittering products in 2011, but opportunities are open for new investment.

Oil blobs mysteriously show up in renowned beach; Aphrodisiacs, sex toys, fake guns seized in Nghe An; Foreign-exchange students linked to Vietnamese cyber-crime gang; Vietnam student beaten in Australia still in coma

VietNamNet Bridge - The US government has earmarked US$17 million to partly clean up a former US air base from toxic defoliant Agent Orange in the central Da Nang City next year.

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate experts are concerned that the surging number of resorts last year is causing wastes of lands and environment pollutions, leaving the property market to be hit in 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - Next year is expected to be a good one for Vietnamese stocks with the economic recovery on the right track.

Six years ago when Vietnam was compiling the file of Quan ho folk music to submit to the UNESCO to be recognized as a world intangible cultural heritage, the Ministry of Culture conferred the “Living heritage” titles to six senior Quan ho artists.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has exported over US$3.2 billion worth of furniture this year, becoming ASEAN’s leading furniture exporter, according to the ASEAN Furniture Industries Council (AFIC).

VietNamNet Bridge – The second dog show took place in HCM City on December 12, with the presence of hundreds of “contestants”.

VietNamNet Bridge – In some mountainous provinces in northern Vietnam, some ethnic minority groups consider covering their teeth with gold fashionable.

Four-legged ‘snake’ found in An Giang; Unlicensed gas stations remain open in city; Fear of toxic additives in food; Tonnes of farm fish found dead; Two passengers killed as truck smashes bus in Dak Nong; Travel club debuts for Thai tourists

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese amateur Nguyen Dang Phong trained for two years before winning his first title at the National Junior Golf Championship at the Ocean Dunes Golf Club in Phan Thiet City.