VietNamNet Bridge – The most recently radioactive incident in Bac Kan province was not the first in Vietnam. This shows 'loopholes' in management of radioactive objects in the country.

 Many South Korean suppliers have followed Samsung, LG, Lotte, Emart and other major companies to set up shop in Vietnam in recent years, resulting in a sharp rise in Korean investment activity.

 The Government has promulgated a Resolution underlining key measures to realise the socio-economic development plan and State budget estimates in 2016.

 Two Vietnamese judokas left for Tunisia yesterday to compete in the judo Olympic qualifiers from January 12-18.

 Vietnam's top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam jumped one spot to 912th in the latest ATP rankings announced on January 11.

 Hospital rankings will be publicised for the first time this year in an effort by the Ministry of Health to improve healthcare services, the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 Dozens of HCM City police officers were mobilised to capture drug trafficking ringleader Ngoc Em, 50, in Nguyen Thuong Hien Street's Alley 183 in Binh Thanh District yesterday afternoon.

 Japan’s biggest air transport group All Nippon Airways (ANA) is set to become National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines’s strategic partner after buying 8.8% of VNA, according to an announcement by VNA on January 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This unique kumquat garden has an area of about 600m2 with over 300 bonsai kumquat trees in the shapes of a dragon, unicorn, phoenix and turtle.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A local company has successfully produced fireproof, bulletproof paint made from rice husks, with the price one third of foreign products of the same kind.

Head of the Vietnam Food Administration Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday said that the news of Vietnamese-made disposable chopsticks containing cancer-causing substance was not official; accordingly the department could not reach any conclusion.

  The Hanoi People’s Court has accepted a request made by Realogy Group LLC, for Minh Viet Investment JSC to fulfil its obligation to Realogy in accordance with a foreign arbitral award judgement.

 Tran Thi Doan Trang won the first national motor race for women, which took place at Binh Phuoc Province Stadium on January 10.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and South Korea's Korea Communications Commission (KCC) agreed to co-operate in-depth in the television field in Ha Noi last Friday.

 The agricultural sector plans to slash rice cultivation by 100,000 hectares in 2016 to grow other grains used to feed animals, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.

 Vietnam received 12.25 billion USD in remittances in 2015, the Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Saigon)’s newspaper reported. 

 The Prime Minister has approved a programme to crack down on human trafficking in the 2016-2020 period.

 President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Nguyen Thien Nhan, received Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference Cardinal Reinhard Marx in Hanoi on January 11.

 Vietnam and Indonesia need to enhance economic-trade and investment ties and speed up the implementation of an action plan on realising their strategic partnership in 2014-18.

 Farmers in Binh Chanh District, HCM City, are farming ornamental Japanese koi fish and Japanese carp following an incentive programme launched by the city recently.