VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities in the central Quang Tri Province have made a list of 52 areas that are heavily contaminated with pesticides leaking from unused warehouses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Samsung, LG, Canon and Nokia of Microsoft all have relocated their production bases to Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – Having a single unit handle public procurement will save a lot of money, Nguyen Tan Thanh, deputy director of the Viet Nam Asset Management Department, told Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Young Vietnamese bestselling author Phan Viet, back in Viet Nam from the US to serve as a judge at the YxineFF film festival, throws more light on her career as a writer in a conversation with Thu Trang.

VietNamNet Bridge – Speech disorders caused by a congenital cleft lip and palate prevented a 22-year-old graduate of Industrial University of HCM City from getting a job, but subsequent sessions of speech therapy have helped her gain confidence.

 VN steelmaker Tisco to sell shares to SCIC; Fisheries sector aims for US$8.5 billion export turnover in 2015; Thailand seeks to woo Vietnamese tourists; FIA puts foreign investments at US$20 billion; Sugar firms fear losses, oversupply

 VietNamNet Bridge – A waste water reservoir in the northern province of Lao Cai burst at the beginning of last month, flooding local residents' fields, ponds and wells, but they are yet to receive compensation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ethics education should be strengthened to curb the worsening violence at schools, educationists told a workshop on this issue held at the HCM City University of Education last Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The health of pregnant women who were mistakenly vaccinated in northern Bac Ninh Province's Tu Son Town on December 20 is stable, the Ministry of Health and provincial health department affirmed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation has nominated three players to the shortlist of the Athletes of 2014.

Trillions of dong spent to clean Ba Bo canal, which runs through HCM City and Binh Duong province, have gone to waste, as the canal has become polluted again due to untreated waste water from nearby factories.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Six members of a family, including a pregnant woman and an 81-year-old woman, were killed early today when a fire broke out in their three-storey house in this northern city of Hai Phong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many businesses have begun their campaigns to recruit new workers for their expansion plans in 2015, when the national economy is expected to improve. However, the recruitment choices are limited.  

Vietnamese slimline residences are featured as the best examples of so called ‘tube houses’ on the pages of two highly acclaimed architecture magazines – Dezeen and Archdaily – thanks to their innovative design.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A treasure of Han (Chinese scripts) inscriptions in verses and prose on architectural works in the Hue imperial citadel is a unique and invaluable documentary heritage of Vietnam,

 VietNamNet Bridge – A workshop has been held in Hue to mark the 100-year anniversary of the first publication of the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue (Bulletin of the Friends of Ancient Hue).

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 906 foreign-invested projects worth 11.9 billion USD have been operational in the Mekong Delta region so far,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Stem cell treatment has made considerable headway in Viet Nam, but very few scientists and doctors in the country have a deep understanding of the subject,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Tri Dung's horses have acquired human dimensions and emotions, and the painter turns writer as he listens to them intently, filling up page after page.

 Private equity investors are paying more attention to the Vietnamese market, readying additional resources in expectation of better long-term results, according to the Grant Thornton global private equity report for 2014 to 2015.