The Viet Nam Professional Football Company (VPF) has found new sponsors for the national premier league.

 Nguyen Van Phuong won the boys' singles title at the 2015 Asia U14 Tennis Championship, Division II, in HCM City's Phu Tho Sports Centre this morning.

Archaeologists recently discovered more than 100 stone carvings on a high mountain in the northern Ha Giang province.

 The Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC) is negotiating with some banks to buy nearly VND2 trillion (US$94 million) of debt owned by the Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines).

 A new web tool that calculates Viet Nam's energy supply and demand and how they interact with the country's greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 officially debuted yesterday in Ha Noi.

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt, officials said.

Construction ministry inspectors have found violations in the building of two flyovers in Ha Noi that can inflict losses of VND7.94 billion (US$378,000) on the State Budget.

 Katty Pham, an American girl of Vietnamese origin, became a special guest at US President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address on January 20.

 Official website of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on January 22 ran an article highlighting the glorious victory of striker Abass Cheikh Dieng of Becamex Binh Duong team.

 Lord Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam is expected to pay his third visit to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 26-30 January.  

 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment introduced the first Biennial Update Reports (BUR1) of Vietnam to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at a workshop in Hanoi on January 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The rich Quang Ninh Coal let defending champions Becamex Binh Duong taste their first defeat of the Toyota V.League 1 season yesterday, Jan 25. The team were beaten 1-2 on their home turf at Go Dau Stadium.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc yesterday ordered an all-out inspection of automobile registration across the country after at least nine people were killed in an accident which involved a truck

 VietNamNet Bridge – Composer Vu Cat Tuong scored a hat-trick for his song at Bai Hat Viet 2014 (Vietnamese Song 2014), a television show that runs throughout the year to showcase new songs by Vietnamese writers.

 The submarine cable Asia –America Gateway (AAG) that provides international internet connectivity for Vietnam was fixed successfully on January 23 after 17 days of breakdown.

 Ma Xuan Cuong of Vietnam bagged a bronze medal at the seventh Asian Three-Cushion Championship, which ended in the Republic of Korea on January 22.

The advantage of Chinese goods are the cheap prices, whileThai goods have good quality, and both are popular with Vietnamese customers, according to Dr. Le Dang Doanh, former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management.

 The Government Inspectorate of Vietnam (GIV) plans to conduct 25 inspections in 2015 with more attention to be paid to the monitoring of the implementation of post-inspection decisions.

 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided Vietnam with two loans totalling 165 million USD to improve secondary education for ethnic minority students in the country’s poorest areas, and upgrade rural infrastructure in six central provinces.

Vietnam and the European Union (EU) concluded the 11th and the last round of free trade agreement negotiations in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, on January 23 after five days of sitting.