FDI firms contribute more to export growth; Consortium seeks to build wastewater treatment plant; Online trading must pay taxes from Jan 20; Second-home segment bouncing back; Bank credit swells in two largest cities

 VietNamNet Bridge – It has become mandatory since January 20 for e-commerce or social network sellers to register their transactions in order to facilitate tax collection.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Quang Nam is seeking long-lasting, environmentally-friendly approaches to prevent erosion, which have left ugly scars on the coast of its world heritage site Hoi An town.

Biggest Mong festival set to begin; Son Tra festival brings Thai guests; Quang Nam to open new tourism site; Ninh Binh opens National Tourism Year 2015; Japanese cruise ship with 650 passengers arrives in HCMC

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 100-year-old Long Bien Bridge, Hanoi’s symbol, is now rusty and severely downgraded.

VietNamNet Bridge – A domestic company with strong financial capacity is expected to invest in a major recreational complex including a casino on Phu Quoc Island off mainland Kien Giang Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Business confidence, outlook and expectations for the future among European businesses in Viet Nam have climbed moderately from the previous quarter, the quarterly EuroCham Business Climate Index survey

VietNamNet Bridge – At a meeting with reporters in HCMC last Sunday, the new U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, shared his views on how ties between the two countries will grow, particularly in trade and investment,

 The first batch of an experimental vaccine against Ebola is on its way to Liberia. The shipment will be the first potentially preventative medicine to reach one of the hardest hit countries.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many economic experts have supported the proposal to issue Vietnam’s bonds in Japanese yen in the Japanese market.

 Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was the fifth of his brothers to take the throne and became king in 2005, reports Caroline Hawley

 Thai authorities have banned former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office for five years and launched a legal case that could see her jailed.

 The government of HCMC is spending around VND1 trillion developing infrastructure and building facilities to support the implementation of Samsung’s US$1.4-billion electronics project at the Saigon Hi-Tech Park.

 Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh on January 22 held bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2015 in Davos.

  Foreign couples adopted 498 Vietnamese children in 2014, the Ministry of Justice said.

 Heroic performance wins virtual fireworks competition in Da Nang; Vietnam joins int’l art fair in Singapore; Rethinking heritage conservation; Ha Noi book fair to showcase international bestsellers; Vietnam hot pan painter goes viral

 VietNamNet Bridge – Trang An Landscape Complex in Ninh Binh province was named on the UNESCO World Heritage List of Natural and Cultural Sites in June 2014, making it the country's first site to earn the title.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A collective cheer went up from the young students as a large school of fish surfaced in a pond in Can Tho City, rushing to eat the feed scattered by a farm worker.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2015 V-League fourth round took place on January 21 witnessing four V-League powerhouses — Song Lam Nghe An, Becamex Binh Duong, Hanoi T&T and SHB Da Nang — setting up exciting encounters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fifth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival will take place in Central Highlands Dak Lak province’s Buon Ma Thuot City – the capital of Vietnamese coffee from March 9-12.