Badminton player Lin Dan and Winter Olympic champion Wang Meng won the best male and female Athlete of the Year honors at the 2010 CCTV (China Central Television) sports personality awarding ceremony here on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Located on the bank of the Huong River, the 300-year-old Thanh Tien paper-flower making village in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue is busy preparing for the New Year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first ruby owned by the Vietnamese state was sold to a Thai businessman at the price of $290,000 at an auction a decade ago. The auction is part of the history of Vietnam’s jewelry industry.

Despite a number of obstacles, Viet Nam will continue to be one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia, with the Government targeting a 7-7.5 per cent GDP-growth rate, according to experts speaking at a corporate gathering in HCM City.

Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

VietNamNet Bridge – 1000 people will be invited to a special gala to welcome the Lunar New Year 2011, held by the State Committee for Overseas  Vietnamese Affairs on January 28 in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - Viet Nam had a trade surplus of more than US$10 billion with the US for the first 11 months of 2010, according to figures from the US Department of Commerce (DoC).

Vietnam needs big enterprises which can compete on the international market. However, “big” should mean “substantial and sustainable” growth, Tran Si Chuong, Member of the Advisory Council of the VNR500 Club, told Vietnam Economic Forum.

VietNamNet Bridge – After nearly tens of years of developing private airlines, the aviation market still has not seen any considerable improvement. Passengers still cannot fly even though more airlines have been established.

VietNamNet Bridge – There, in the solitary border area of Lang Son province, luxury products, like iPhones or Nokia X7, E71, E72 or E75 are numerous and sold easily like bunches of vegetable. However, all are counterfeit goods.

VND740 billion disbursed for low-income housing projects; Papal envoy may improve relations; Another case of A/H1N1 discovered in HCM City; Viet Nam's first baby born in aeroplane; Oxy-fuel welding kills two and injures three

At least 16 people were killed and nine others injured as a blast took place in a passenger bus on Monday mooring in Kohat, northwest Pakistan, police said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Saigontourist Travel Service received 300 tourists from Portugal’s Princess Daphne cruise ship during their 2-day tour of HCM City – Cu Chi – My Tho on January 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 6th Security World Conference and Expo will be held in Hanoi by the IT Department, General Department of Logistics & Technology under the Ministry of Public Security, Vietnam Computer Emergency Response

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman Doan Nguyen Duc of Hoang Anh Gia Lai said his team will triumph during the national football tournament this season.

VietNamNet Bridge – V-League football team Hoang Anh Gia Lai will recruit the first graduates to emerge from a training course at the Hoang Anh Gia Lai-Arsenal-JMG Academy over the next three years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Star striker Le Cong Vinh, who scored the decisive goal in the final of the 2008 Southeast Asia football championships, spent four months in Portugal playing football and another four months getting treatment . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – The city targets establishing a minimum VND8 million (US$410) in annual income per capita for all families, according to the city Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VietNamNet Bridge – A proposal by BIDV Expressway Development Company to collect a toll of VND1,000 per kilometre for users on the HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway from April 30 is causing concern among road haulers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Housing cooperatives should be used to provide shelter for the poor, according to the deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Construction Association.