VietNamNet Bridge - Adam Lambert, the runner-up of the American Idol, 8th season--is going to perform in the fifth Hennessy Concert at the Center for Culture and Sport Nguyen Du, Ho Chi Minh City, on January 4, 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world's 22nd richest billionaire George Soros and his family have been in Hanoi on Christmas and New Year vacation.

 Long lines formed as Los Angeles gun owners turned in weapons for up to $200 worth of groceries, in a gun buyback event brought forward after the Connecticut school shooting.

Trucks have been queuing up over the last many days at the entrance to the Dung Quat port in Quang Ngai province, waiting for their turns to delivery wood chips to big tonnage ships which would head for China.

 A Syrian government delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad on Thursday began talks at the Russian foreign ministry on the crisis in the country, Russian news agencies said.

 US auto giant Ford said Thursday it will invest $773 million to expand factories across its home state of Michigan, generating 2,350 new jobs, part of a plan to add 12,000 jobs by 2015.

 Constitution open to all Vietnamese; Sympathies to Kazakhstan President; Lao Party leader visits HCM City; Vietnam-Laos Friendship Year a success

The development of modern distribution channels in HCM City has slowed down in the economic downturn. However, the growth seems to be robust in new areas.

VietNamNet Bridge – Last year, prolonged unstable macroeconomic policies made the panorama of the Vietnamese economy quite bleak for foreign businesses.

Vietnamese students have more learning subjects and receive bigger volumes of knowledge everyday than the students from any other countries. However, they don’t have basic knowledge about history, nature and the things around them.

VietNamNet Bridge - Near the Doan Mon Gate, archaeologists have excavated more relics of the Ly, Tran, Le and Nguyen Dynasties that are overlaid on top of each other.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction has passed a circular governing the minimum proportion of unbaked brick used in buildings, aiming to boost the production and consumption of green building materials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 80 per cent of helmets sold at markets are substandard and would not protect a rider's head in an accident, a conference heard on Dec 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) would strictly control mobile phone and SMS services next year, said deputy minister of Information and Communications Le Nam Thang. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Thua Thien–Hue has adopted a programme on developing new services in the ancient imperial city of Hue, aiming to attract more tourists to the world heritage site.

The biggest blunder made by Mai Linh, Thai Hoa, TNG or HQC, the giants in their business fields, was that they were burning to make investments to expand business. The overly hot development has made them lose control and fall into the default.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi plans to build eight large-scale abattoirs to meet the demands of consumers by 2015, the municipal People's Committee said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to the Museum of Ethnology can learn about traditional festivals in Val-de-Marne, a province neighbouring the French capital, and Yen Bai, a northern mountainous province of Viet Nam,

Mai Linh to sell assets to clear VND500 billion debts; Many firms fail to pay social insurance; Power price hike hits steel, cement producers; Logistics needs 20,000 more laborers; 2013: good time for business startups

 VietNamNet Bridge – It has been estimated that international visitors to Viet Nam numbered over 6,647,700, representing a rise of 9.5 per cent over last year, according the General Statistics Office (GSO).