This month, Vietnam is expected to welcome the fifteen millionth foreign visitor of the year, an impressive figure for the tourism industry. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Electric motorbike are becoming more popular in Vietnam.

 Over four million tons of untreated coal ash and slag, discharged from thermal power plants in the south-central coastal province of Binh Thuan, pose serious risks to the environment, said a local official.

 With a nine-point increase over the second quarter of 2018, Vietnam’s consumer confidence level has reached the decade-high level, placing the country in the second position on the consumer confidence benchmark globally.

 That the success rate of startups is very low worldwide is known to everyone. The following article gives with some lessons to be learnt in the Vietnamese context.

H’Hen Nie, the Vietnamese representative at Miss Universe 2018, has left a fantastic impression on viewers during the beauty pageant in Thailand.

 With around 400 islands covered with diversified species of plants, Lan Ha Bay in Cat Ba island district, in the northern port city of Hai Phong, has risen to become a “second” Ha Long Bay of Vietnam on the tourist map.

Singer Pham Thu Ha is always trying to break musical boundaries, and her latest offering does just that, with the music video Vũ Điệu Bình Minh featuring her soprano voice accompanied by dance music.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

 Credit in 2018 is seen expanding less than 16%, the lowest in four years, VnEconomy news site reported, citing State Bank of Vietnam Governor Le Minh Hung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five Vietnamese players from the AFF Cup winning team have made it to the tournament’s Best XI.

 Vietnam’s tra fish export value has exceeded US$2 billion for the first time, with the figure hitting $2.05 billion in the first 11 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 27.4 per cent, according to the General Department of Customs.

 Lilama 69-1 JSC, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Machinery Installation Corporation – JSC, has completed a project to manufacture seven sets of fired heaters in a contract with Kirchner Italia S.p.A of Italy to export to Uzbekistan. 

 Fujimart Vietnam Retail, a joint venture between Japanese trading house Sumitomo and local retail and real estate conglomerate BRG Group, will open its first Vietnamese supermarket in Hanoi this month.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception for Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Martin Chungong on December 17. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will play Myanmar in the final of the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U21 Football Tournament on Tuesday in Hue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Park Hang-Seoul has called up six new players to add to his current squad to prepare for the Asian Cup early next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese woman was arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 22 kilogrammes of endangered elephant tusks in Thailand on Sunday, 

 In the moment of winter, Nhan Dan Online Newspaper introduce a series of images “Coming winter” selected from works participating in the photo contest, themed 'The Beauty of Vietnam".

 Every year, HCM City loses more heritage buildings to poor urban planning and a lack of awareness about their economic value. The issue was mentioned at a seminar on the city’s heritage preservation recently.

 The management board of the Vietnam Seventh-day Adventist Church held a ceremony to start its first academic year for a batch of students of its Christian Bible College in Ho Chi Minh City on December 17.

 It is now in the hands of the VCC to decide whether the M&A between Grab and Uber violates Vietnamese competition law.

 The Prime Minister has approved a decision to establish a state-owned tourism development fund.

 Vietnamese forward Nguyen Quang Hai has been named among the 10 most anticipated young stars at the 2019 Asian Cup, which is set to run from January 5 to February 1 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

 Many firms in HCM City are having to deal with an insufficient number of workers as increasing numbers of people enrol with app-based services.