VietNamNet Bridge - Counterfeit goods have become a hazard for Vietnamese customers as everything can be faked, from gas to seasoning powder to fashion products.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many drivers in Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces ‘display’ a fire extinguisher on the roof or the side of their cars to show traffic police officers that their cars are have a fire extinguisher under the latest rules. 

Thousands of residents in Van Phu and Phuong Lau communes in Viet Tri City are reportedly wearing facial masks overnight, which is not a kind of skin care for brighter skin the next morning but rather a way to fight against air pollution there.

 Many boat stations in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta operate without a licence, threatening the safety of the system, authorities have warned.

  Labor Ministry survey reveals most employees will receive a Tet bonus this year but the amount will differ wildly.

 The temperature at the Mau Son mountain peak in the northern province of Lang Son continued to sink to minus 2oC at 10 am on January 23 and white frosts nipped the 1,500 metre-mountain peak.

 Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) has been given authorization to operate a nationwide computerized lottery in Vietnam for the next 18 years, according to widely publicized local media reports.

 The Prime Minister has recently approved a programme to develop broadband telecommunications infrastructure by 2020.

 Forty-five excellent athletes are getting special training and treatment to prepare for Olympics qualifying tourneys, the General Department of Sports and Physical Education said. 

 Phan Hoang Thai of Vietnam won a silver medal at the 23rd Asian Junior Cycling Championships in Oshima, Japan on January 22.

 Vietnamese football fans will be able to vote for the favourite players in 2015 through the internet, it was revealed in Ho Chi Minh City on January 22.

  Party and State leaders of Laos hosted receptions for Hoang Binh Quan – special envoy of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong, in Vientiane on January 22.

Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, delivered a report on deepening international integration in order to serve national construction and defence at the 12th National Party Congress.

 Agriculture, rural areas and farmers are among topics debated at the January 23 working session of the 12th National Party Congress which was chaired by Politburo member and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The sixth session of the Vietnam-China Land Border Joint Committee was held from January 17-21 in Ho Chi Minh City. 

  Delegates to the 12th National Party Congress discussed the documents presented to the Congress on the morning of January 23, focusing on how to build a uniform policy for national industrial development and a modern agriculture sector.

  Issues relating to social welfare and human resources drew great attention from delegates at the 12th National Party Congress during their working session on January 23.

Mobile World, one of the largest mobile phone and electronic product distribution chains in Vietnam, is preparing to open its first stores in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar in early 2017, revealed its CEO Tran Kinh Doanh.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many people who were living in peace have been suddenly sullied on the Internet, accused of crimes of theft or kidnapping.

 The baby girl, weighing 3.6kg, was born at 7.25am by C-section to a 38-year-old woman from the northern Ninh Binh Province.