More than 220 international participants of the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race set sail for Da Nang city on Monday from Whitsundays, Australia.

 V.League defending champions Becamex Binh Duong will host SCG Muangthong of Thailand during the visitors' ASEAN Tour 2016 on January 23 at HCM City's Thong Nhat Stadium.

 The 2015 Literature and Art Prizes were awarded to 67 works of literature, fine arts, music, cinema, photo-graphy, dance, folk art and theatrical art yesterday.

 Tet Art 2016, the biggest Vietnamese and foreign art fair of the year, will kick off on January 21 in Ha Noi.

 Vietnam and Japan will join hands to develop a semiconductor industry in Vietnam, as stipulated at a cooperation agreement signed between the Integrated Circuit Design Research & Education Centre and Japan’s Nagano science and technology fund.

 The Lunar New Year festival bonus is expected to increase 15.7 percent from last year, averaging 250 USD per worker, according to head of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs’ Labour and Wage Department Tong Thi Minh.

VietNamNet Bridge - With a new extraction process discovered by Hoang Phuong Lan, MA, it will be more simple to extract stevioside, the element responsible for the sweet taste of leaves from stevia rebaudiana.

VietNamNet Bridge - The fate of thermopower plants is one of the issues intensely debated among policymakers who are programming the electricity generation development. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - 2015 was a year of difficulties, from the weather, to the market to resources. However, thanks to timely measures of the agricultural sector, Vietnam’s export of agricultural-forestry products reached $30.13 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge - Registering for class schedule has left many university students short of sleep. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - After the first two Speake-Marin Dong Son Tourbillon watches were delivered in late November 2015, Speake-Marin continued delivery of the 3rd and 4th to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite huge investment flows into Phu Quoc Island, Government officials revealed that the number of projects actually underway is much lower than expected.

The vast natural and cultural treasures of southern Viet Nam, exemplified by unique folk traditions and festivals, lush green rice fields, forests and stunningly beautiful islands, will be the fitting focus of National Tourism Year 2016.

 Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, named the world's largest ceramic mosaic by the Guinness Book of Records, is crumbling with neglect.

VietNamNet Bridge - Eight out of the 20 richest stock millionaires in Vietnam are real estate developers. They hold assets higher in value than anyone else in other business fields.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) recently issued an investment certificate to Malaysia's United More SDN Bhd for a US$21 million plant to manufacture high-precision plastic products for smart TVs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Beautiful images of Saigon can be found in a new guidebook called “Saigon Zoom In”, a joint effort of local and foreign photographers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Currency exchange shops are busier than ever as the Tet (Lunar New Year) nears. With such demand, the likelihood of overcharging customers increases.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 2015 list of the 500 richest stockholders in Vietnam reveals that nearly one-fifth are in the real estate sector.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Convention Centre in Hanoi, which hosts the 12th National Party Congress from January 20 to 28, has been decorated with flags and flowers to prepare for the opening ceremony.