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.

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

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”.

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

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.

VietNamNet Bridge - Most tourist companies have said that several people plan to travel domestically and overseas during the Tet (Lunar New Year).

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is well known as one of the most powerful exporters of agricultural products in the world. However, Vietnamese farmers and Vietnamese enterprises cannot pocket enough money from their exports.

The terminology “cloud computing” has been mentioned by more and more Vietnamese enterprises recently. Experts believe that cloud computing would be the choice of enterprises and government agencies in the near future.

Returning to Vietnam as veterans of the Vietnam War, bearing many wounds in their souls, these Americans may have felt apprehensive but the open hearts of Vietnamese people relieved their pains and helped them regain their lost souls.

In 2010, Vietnam successfully accomplished its role as Chair of ASEAN, comprehensively deployed foreign affairs and deeper integrated into the international economy, creating a momentum for the nation to enter the 2nd decade of the 21st century.