Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on January 18 started her 4-day visit to Vietnam to open cooperative opportunities between the two countries.

The food and gas price increases have prompted poor people save money by using low cost fuel, including scraps of fabric, nylon, or leather. Though they can cut down the spending with the initiative, their health has been seriously damaged.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Public Security, Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong has decided to award VND11 million for a group of mobile policemen who denied VND100 million ($5,000) of bribe.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam plans to fulfill the program on developing wired and wireless broadband infrastructure by 2020. However, it is very likely that the program would be completed before the deadline.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Government Inspectorate, the allocation of land, land auction and transfer of land use rights in Da Nang city caused losses of over VND3.4 trillion (over $160 million) for the state budget.

Binh Phuoc authorities on January 21 told the local Justice Department to withdraw the two decisions that redefine the gender and civil status change of Pham Van Hiep, from a man into a woman, because it is unlawful.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese banking system experienced a stormy year 2012. However, no collapse or disaster occurred.

Dozens of people brought the body of an 8th grader, who was drowned by falling into a hole left by a titanium exploring firm, to the office of My Thanh Commune People’s Committee, Binh Dinh province, to claim $25,000 of compensation.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many schools in HCM City fear they cannot achieve the Ministry of Education and Training's newly set standards for schools because of the lack of facilities and funds. 

  For a long time, the Mong people in Dong Van Karst Plateau in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang have preserved a technique of casting a special kind of plough that is suitable for rocky soils.

The short clips promoting Vietnam’s tourism implemented by a South Korean travel firm has moved the Vietnamese Internet community. Why can’t Vietnam do such interesting clips?

Though affirming the downward trend of the import tariff on brand new car imports under the mode of CBU, MOF says it would take very cautious steps in this process to avoid negative impacts on the domestic automobile manufacturing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – My father's Australian friend recently sent him an email to inform him that he would be visiting Viet Nam in early March, and expressed a desire to tour a craft village outside Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A small bio-refinery is converting seaweed into protein, fuel-blendable alcohol and a bacterial soil product in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bac Lieu.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have called for legal framework regarding transfer pricing to be supplemented and completed as a matter of urgency.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport has decided to cancel a project to restrict individual vehicles in Hanoi, HCM City, Danang and Can Tho, said Transport Minister Dinh La Thang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pressing issues grabbing special attention from the public will be central points in government inspection activities in 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge - The economic situation in 2013 is anticipated to be difficult. Nearly 200,000 people in Ho Chi Minh City will be very difficult to find a job.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The government recently approved a project worth VND340 billion (USD16.3 million) on education development until 2020.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Outdated low-efficient thermoelectric generators would be removed from the national power system if the regulation currently drafted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade got nod from the Government.