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).

 VietNamNet Bridge - While working in the fields on January 19, farmers of Nhan Vu village uncovered an ancient bronze bell 0.6 m in diameter, with many interesting characters and motifs.

VietNamNet Bridge – A preliminary survey has found that most students chose physics and chemistry for the 2015 finals, and that very few students chose history and geography.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to upgrade Vinh Airport in Vinh City, Nghe An Province, in central Vietnam into an international airport in the 2015-2030 period.

 VietNamNet Bridge - At the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh Province, in central Vietnam, scientists on January 20 announced the discovery of a new species of Ceylon caecilian (Ichthyophis glutinosus).

 Japan is looking to further cooperation with Vietnam in the agriculture and fishery industries, said Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Nishikawa Koya at a meeting with President Truong Tan Sang in Hanoi on January 21.

 Doctors could spot twice as many heart attacks in women by using a newer, more sensitive blood test, a study claims.