Four people were claimed to be dead with 600 others injured when Bangladesh's anti-government protesters and their ruling party rivals fought pitched battles for hours in capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country Sunday morning.

 President Barack Obama and House of Representatives speaker John Boehner met to discuss the so-called impending fiscal cliff of steep tax hikes and spending cuts.

  Hanoi, Vientiane strengthen ties; Vietnam, RoK foster diplomatic ties; Dak Nong urged to use forest potential; President visits site of Lai Chau hydropower plant

VietNamNet Bridge – The 32nd National TV Festival organizing board has made public the list of 445 works that will compete in 12 categories.

Some investment fund management companies have been moving ahead with their plan to set up open end funds.

 The wreckage of a plane carrying star Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera has been found in northern Mexico Sunday and there were no survivors, officials said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Food mixed with chemicals will be placed at food processing plants, animal husbandry farms, hotels, bus and railway stations in 24 districts in Ho Chi Minh City--to kill brown rats that cause acute renal failure.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung’s successful visit to Thailand and Japan is the outstanding imprint in parliamentary external relations this year. 

General schools have complained that their students freely have caressing manners right in the classrooms. Meanwhile, Vietnamese students nowadays believe that this is the right way of showing feelings in the modern times.

Vietnam is now witnessing the boom of Internet-based digital services, since investors can see the big potentials of the market. However, experts say the market is still like a bear garden due to the lack of a perfect legal framework.

Scientists believe that the government should encourage people to use biofuels instead of forcing them to do that.

While other investment channels have been shrinking in the economic downturn, government bonds have been yielding big fruits. What’s behind this?

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport said that from 0h on January 1, 2012, the state-owned toll will be closed. Instead, people will pay road maintenance fees.

They received compensation for crops, trees, and career change worth of thousands to hundreds of thousands of USD from Dakdrink hydropower project, but many households in Son Tay district, Quang Ngai province, are still at risk of poverty.

VietNamNet Bridge – By the evening of December 9, the tragic traffic accident on Keo Put Pass, Quoc Toan commune, Cao Bang Province, left five people dead and 12 others seriously injured.

Fighting corruption, eliminating interest groups, being determined to prevent the decline of ideology, ethics and lifestyle of a part of party members are the statements emphasized by the leaders of the Party and the State of Vietnam in 2012.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was the third time I had visited Sa Pa Town, surrounded by mountains and rice terraces, but this time I had the most fun.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will spend US$6.3 million next year to examine the impacts of mainstream hydro-power on the downstream Mekong River.

Expert claims tycoon arrest disrupts investor confidence; Real estate prices forecast to reach record low in 2013; FIEs gain US$10.5 billion in trade surplus; Even in rice export, the benefits are minimal.

The reclusive Saola, measuring just some 85cm in height is, without doubt, one of the rarest mammals on the planet. Despite twenty years of intense searching, no Saola have yet been observed by a scientist in the wild.