VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi has approved the construction of the controversial Ho Guom Lake Cultural Center at 2 Le Thai To Street, 12m from Hoan Kiem Lake, closing a four-year-long debate.

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 Confidence vote results on 57 holders of leading positions of the Party Committee of the National Assembly (NA) were announced on December 25, with NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu earning the highest number of high-confidence votes with 93.16 percent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 50 circus artists will entertain audiences in HCM City with an extravaganza to welcome the New Year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first child conceived via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the central Da Nang City's Pediatrics and Obstetrics hospital was born yesterday, Dec 25.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese JX Nippon Oil & Energy is expected to enter the Vietnamese petroleum retail market, which has yet to open to foreign investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fifteen people died and assets worth hundreds of billion dong destroyed in five large fires in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2014.

Madam Phung's Last Journey, a truthful and honest look at the transgender community in Viet Nam, played to sold-out rooms in HCM City and is eagerly anticipated by audiences in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Viet Hoang will replace Dylan Kerr as the coach of the V-League side Hai Phong, the club's Chairman Tran Manh Hung announced.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Thong Nhat Park underground parking project will help Ha Noi and its people, and resolve economic, social and transportation problems,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) must continue last year's successful management of its flexible monetary policy to assure economic stability in 2015,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam are to host next year's ASEAN Football Federation Women's Championship.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government of Khanh Hoa Province has issued a decision banning construction of new hotels on Mun, Noc, Vung and Cau islands in Nha Trang Bay.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam-India bilateral trade turnover in the first 11 months of the year reached US$5.15 billion, posting an 8.37 per cent year-on-year increase.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although Phu Yen is not quite a well-known destination in Vietnam’s tourism map, the province is surely “a promised land” thanks to its wild but romantic landscapes.

More than 200,000 home and business network devices in Vietnam are vulnerable to “Misfortune Cookie”, through which hackers can watch users’ operations and hijack devices from a distance, according to BKAV, Vietnam's leading internet security firm.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though petrol prices have plummeted since July, with the popular A92 petrol price down by over 30 per cent, transport tariffs have barely fallen.

 Gay and bisexual men should no longer be banned from donating blood in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended.

Football, known as the king of Vietnam’s sports, experienced a sad and happy year, with the success of the U19 team, and both success and failure at the AFF Cup and Asian Games. However, match-fixing in the V-League was the low point of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's agriculture sector must restructure and seek more funding, head of CIEM's Rural Development research department Luu Duc Khai told Nong Thon Ngay Nay newspaper.