A candidate in the television contest Vietnam's Got Talent accidentally drank acid when a performance of magic went horribly wrong live on VTV3 on January 11.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Korean girlband T-ara arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City on January 9, and then held a press conference and a mini-show in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian food manufacturer - Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food (Aisa) – plans to spend $80 million to expand business in Vietnam and Malaysia this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Lien Son mountain range in Lao Cai Province had snowfall at an altitude of 2,000 m or more at around 10pm on Saturday, January 9. The snowfall stopped Sunday morning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s economy will see major changes because of new provisions of the amended Enterprise Law that will turn hundreds of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into non-state enterprises.

Richard Linklater coming of age film Boyhood has taken top honours at the Golden Globe awards.

A blood test could help people choose a stop-smoking strategy that would give them the best chance of quitting, research in the Lancet suggests.

A special collection of posters is on display at the Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts. Entitled A Revolutionary Spirit, the show features large-scale reproductions of rarely seen original art works produced between the 1960s and early 1980s.

 Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, say officials.

 A new exhibition by Vietnamese artist Tran Duc Quy offers the public an original perspective on life.

 Hong Kong surpassed large investors, such as Japan, Singapore and Taiwan to become the second largest investor in Viet Nam last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

 A two-month inspection into the admission capacity of 93 non-state high schools across Ha Noi will be conducted by the city Department of Education and Training starting next Monday.

Jurgen Klinsmann, the current coach of the US national team, has called up Vietnamese American Lee Nguyen to play as a midfielder for the United States Men’s National Team.

 CNN International has described Duong Thuy Vi as the acrobatic artistry of Vietnam's Wushu champion.

The world's greatest museum of art and design Victoria & Albert (V&A) is displaying an exhibit of Vietnamese programmer Nguyen Ha Dong’s Fapply Bird game at its Rapid Response Collecting gallery.

VietNamNet Bridge – Information Technology (IT) applications can help reduce traffic accidents by half and considerably ease traffic flow, a leading figure in the IT industry says.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two DJs from Italy will play electronic dance music on Thursday in downtown Ha Noi soon.

Central provinces announce joint campaign to foster tourism; Da Nang welcomes first cruise ship in 2015; Culture, tourism plan for central economic region announced

 A channel promoting tourism in Vietnam has been launched on the video-streaming platform YouTube, giving audiences free access to news and images about places of interest across the nation.

 The Bkav Corporation recently displayed its international-standard SmartHome solution and smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show "CES 2015" in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States.