Bamboo Airways and the air carrier run by the joint venture between Thien Minh Group & AirAsia both announced they would take off in 2018. However, the latter has vanished, while the former has delayed its first flights to the year end.

Community-based ecotourism (CBET) is believed to be the best way to develop tourism and protect the environment. However, the performance of some CBET villages has been discouraging.

VietNamNet Bridge - A mobile number portability (MNP) service was launched on November 16, but it is still only available to post-paid subscribers.

Eleven percent of university students say they study English only at school, while nearly 90 percent of students take extra English lessons at foreign language centers or via the internet, because lessons at school are not sufficient to pass exams.

Investment by Chinese enterprises in Vietnam under different modes, from FDI (foreign direct investment) to M&As (merger & acquisition), is on the rise amid the US-China trade war. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi half marathon, named “Run for Tigers”, is scheduled to start in the Ciputra urban area in Hanoi’s Bac Tu Liem District on December 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Current methods of teaching music in high school should be adjusted to improve teaching quality, experts said at a recent seminar held by the HCM City Conservatory of Music.

Vietnam’s V.League won the “Best Developing League of the Year” award from Asia’s Sports Industry Awards and Conference (SPIA Asia) at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, 

 Designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam has opened a fashion show at the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 A Vietjet Air flight had to make an emergency landing following an inaccurate technical warning.

 The Vietnamese Football Federation said a security guard at My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi had been fired for letting fans without tickets climb the fence into the stadium.

 Events in Hanoi and HCMC on November 19-25

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new animated film on Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by young filmmakers is expected to be in cinemas for the Christmas and New Year holiday. 

 In the early 2000s, Vietnam planned to carry out nuclear power projects with Russian involvement, which were expected to begin construction in the Vietnamese central province of Ninh Thuan.

Vietnam remained the smallest local currency bond market among nine economies of emerging East Asia, according to the latest edition of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Bond Monitor. 

The Asian media has highlighted Vietnam's defensive strength following the team's performance against Myanmar in the AFF Suzuki Cup 2018, which was the third consecutive match that Vietnamese goalkeeper Dang Van Lam has let no goal being scored.   

 “Balade en France”, the annual French food and wine festival, will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from December 1-2 as part of the activities marking the 45th founding anniversary of Vietnam-France diplomatic relations.

 An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twelve Vietnamese child catwalk models will be featured at the Malaysia Fashion Week 2018, which is taking place in Kuala Lumpur.

 With the holding of 5.23% stake in PV Oil, SK Energy is second only to Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) which is the state capital representative with 80% stake.

The drill deals with a hypothetical situation of a massive storm collapsing a three-storey shopping mall at the Ta Lung International border gate and burying lots of shoppers.

 Japanese designer Junko Koshino has introduced a fashion collection entitled “Spectrum” at a show to celebrate 45 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Japan.

 Medical alliance HM Group has launched in the central city of Da Nang with the aim of serving 500,000 patients by 2020 and boosting information technology and human resources for hospitals and clinics.

 The first Vietnam Travel & Tourism Summit will take place at the Intercontinental Landmark72 hotel in Hanoi on December 5-6 in the framework of the Vietnam Economic Forum (ViEF) 2018.  

 In Vietnam, books available for people with disabilities remain as low as one percent, but there is hope for the future.