VietNamNet Bridge – Only 24 out of the 47 investment fund management companies reported profit in the first three quarters of 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The song Chiec Vong Cau Hon (The Engagement Bangle) by Dam Vinh Hung won the "Song of the Year 2013" award at a ceremony in Ha Noi on Sunday night.

 VietNamNet Bridge – AS Roma defeated Viet Nam 2-1 in the first round match of an International U19 Football Tournament at the HCM City's Thong Nhat Stadium yesterday, Jan 6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A swindling trial in which the defendant is accused of appropriating 3.9 trillion (USD 188.7 million) from individuals and banks began in Ho Chi Minh City on January 6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Minister of Education and Training, Pham Vu Luan, said “It will be very difficult for the education and training sector to offer Tet bonuses to its staff”, adding that the state will not be able to provide these funds.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A HCM City Supreme People’s Court on January 6 rejected a Malaysian national’s appeal and upheld the First Instance Court’s life imprisonment ruling against the drug trafficker.

Documents assert Vietnam’s East Sea sovereignty; Ethnic community to celebrate New Year in capital; In France, water puppets bring Andersen tales to life; Tet pole restoration expected to excite Hoi An locals

 Swimmer Quynh to train using American system; Unseeded Minh to attend Malaysian Open; Athletes to compete in Myanmar Para Games;

 U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Janet Yellen as the next head of the Federal Reserve, to replace the outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke whose term ends at the end of this month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though the real estate market has been cool for a long time with the prices bottoming down, it remains a profitable business which helps a lot of Vietnamese families get rich.

 A man suspected of carrying out the arson attack on the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, has been arrested, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung yesterday, Jan 6, called for major improvements to the living conditions of farmers saying this was key to ensuring rural development and national industrialisation.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fires broke out from a paint warehouse and spread rapidly, making an enterprise of thousands of square meters of a Korean company in the Yen Phong Industrial Zone collapse.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After more than three years without a single case of measles, the HCM City Children's Hospital 1 now receives 5-6 child patients per day with complications.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This lunar New Year, some parks and bus stations in HCM City will have 11 public toilets of 4-5 star standards and ATMs to serve visitors and passengers.

The authorities on Monday excavated over 70 sets of remains, founded by “telepath” Nguyen Thanh Thuy, at the martyrs’ cemetery in Dak Lak province, for DNA tests to identify whether they are the remains of martyrs or not.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment made public the sector’s top ten highlights of 2013 on January 3.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A favourite dish of the Vietnamese people, the pho noodle soup, has been recommended as a "bowl of heaven" by The Huffington Post, a US newspaper website.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A baby South African giraffe was born in captivity on January 2 at the Dai Nam zoological park in the southern province of Binh Duong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty percent of the most excellent students would automatically finish high school without having to attend finals under a Ministry of Education and Training’s plan.