Member enterprises of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) have already clinched export contracts for at least one million tons of rice with delivery scheduled for this year.

  Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly satirical magazine known for lampooning radical Islam, killing at least 12 people, including two police officers in the worst militant attack on French soil in recent decades.

Hoang Nguyen Thanh successfully defended his title at the national mountain-climbing tournament, entitled "Conquering Ba Ra Mountain 2015", in Phuoc Long Town in Binh Phuoc Province yesterday.

 Nearly one year after withdrawing from V-League 1, a Ninh Binh club official asked the Ninh Binh Province's People's Committee to dissolve the club on Tuesday.

  Vietnamese track-and-field queen Truong Thanh Hang has decided to retire from competition.

VietNamNet Bridge – Though the Dung Quat Economic Zone (EZ) attracts 10 new investment projects every year, the same number of licenses are revoked each year.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam weakened the Vietnamese dong by 1 per cent, raising the US$-VND daily reference rate from VND21,246 to VND21,458.

 Fares have been slashed by 69 taxi and 15 long-distance passenger transport companies in the capital since last November, after authorities urged them to do so following fuel price reductions.

VietNamNet Bridge – Children will be given inactivated and injectable polio vaccine shots in October besides the existing oral vaccine as part of the country's efforts to switch to the former,

 Sixteen Vietnamese martial arts delegations are expected to participate in the 2015 World Martial Arts Festival slated for April 19-25 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 The Republic of Korea’s Joo Won starring in the hit KBS drama “Good Doctor” will arrive at Ho Chi Minh City on January 30 to meet with his Vietnamese fans.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued a plan to simplify administrative procedures and cut at least 25% of related fees.

VietNamNet Bridge – The majority of car manufacturers have decided to label their products with yellow tags instead of green ones, according to the Vietnam Register (VR).

A workshop was held in the central city of Da Nang on January 6 to develop a detailed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Da Nang Seafood Service Zone, and to create solutions to business development.

Vietnam will become the first market for enterprises from north Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture to launch the “Cool Hokkaido” initiative, including a cultural village to be established in October 2015.

VietNamNet Bridge – Bui Hien, the engineer famous for his self-made helicopter, has successfully made a second helicopter which he says is safer and more modern in design.

 The Central Commission of Health Care for Senior Officials has dismissed rumours surrounding the health of Nguyen Ba Thanh, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs.

The appeal court upheld the life imprisonment sentence for Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu, former deputy chief of the Risk Management Department of the Ho Chi Minh City branch of Vietinbank, on January 7.

VietNamNet Bridge – The southern region has attracted US$7.21 billion worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2014, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency.

 Vietnam Law and Legal Forum (VLLF) has selected top 10 Vietnamese legal documents in 2014.