Viettel Global, a subsidiary of Viettel Group, has approved a resolution to invest in a telecommunications company in Myanmar with the total registered investment capital of $1.8 billion, according to the company’s website.

 Veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh won the Vietnam Writers' Association most important prize of the 2014 year, poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the association, confirmed yesterday.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam does not plan to issue new banknotes with denominations lower than VND5,000 (23 US cents) for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, to cut costs.

Vietnam is making substantial efforts to fulfil its National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change in 2015.

The Vietnam Food Administration has issued a warning and called for inspection of local businesses that might be importing prepackaged caramel apples from the United States.

VietNamNet Bridge – Economists have repeatedly called on local authorities to give preferential policies to Samsung, one of the biggest investors in Vietnam.

 The Solar Radiation and Solar Potential Maps of Vietnam were introduced to the public on January 21 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, according to the Spanish Embassy in Vietnam.

 Eleven Vietnamese athletes are competing at the seventh Asian three-cushion billiards championship, which kicked off in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on January 20, according to the Vietnam Administration of Sports and Physical Training.

 Vietnamese tennis players made a good start at the 2015 Asia U14 Tennis Championship, Division II, which opened in Ho Chi Minh City's Phu Tho Sports Centre on January 21.

 Rice exporters are expected to ship 900,000 tonnes of the grain abroad in the first quarter of this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Disabled Vietnamese weightlifter Le Van Cong will receive VND10 million (US$476) per month from his sponsor, the Viet Nam Institute for Biomedical Physics, for 20 months from January this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi People's Committee has approved a proposal to spend about VND22.8 billion (US$1.07 million) on the festive lighting system for this year's holidays, double last year's budget.

VietNamNet Bridge – Becamex Binh Duong maintained their top spot in the Toyota V. League after their four win in a row yesterday, Jan 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least 15 enterprises at industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) in HCMC are unlikely to offer their employees bonuses for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) due to financial difficulties.

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From the ninth to 11th month of the lunar calendar, oysters usually wash ashore in Thach Hai commune in Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province in central Vietnam when the sea is rough. This is an opportunity for local people to make money.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hang Nga guesthouse, also known as Crazy House, in the resort city of Da Lat in central Vietnam has been named among the 25 coolest hotels in the world on boredpanda.com.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After Remi Camus ended his six-month-long, 4,400-km swim along the Mekong River in Viet Nam's Tien Giang Province last year, he returned six months later to seek partners for his initiative to collect rubbish dumped

 VietNamNet Bridge – Movie star and pop singer/producer Ngo Thanh Van and her partner, Vietnamese-Canadian director Cuong Ngo, have worked on a new film, Ngay Nay Ngay Nay (The Lost Dragon),

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranks second among the countries with the most complaints related to corruption, especially in the field of transport and water supply, according to the World Bank (WB).