Many commercial banks raised deposit interest rates in recent months, triggering worries about the increasing pressure on the lending rates.

 Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang has been chosen by Australian travel website Finder as one of the best travel destinations in 2019.

 The BV 98869 TS fishing vessel rescued 10 foreign sailors and sent them to the Ben Da border post in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on December 19, said the provincial Border Guard High Command.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Labour-export companies might be banned from sending Vietnamese workers abroad for jobs considered dangerous.

 The Hi-Tech Business Incubator in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on December 18 to debut a surgical equipment using Fractional CO2 Laser – one of the most advanced technologies in skin treatment – designed and made by Vietnamese engineers.

 The third national workshop on the East Sea took place in Ha Long city in the northern province of Quang Ninh on December 19.

 Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific have announced that they will add more than 134,000 seats on domestic flights serving the peak Lunar New Year (Tet) season between January 20 and February 19.

 About six million Vietnamese people escaped from poverty between 2012-2016, with the poverty ratio dropping from 15.9 to 9.1 percent during the period, according to a report released on December 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi M (not her real name) made the difficult decision to take her mother to a Hanoi nursing home five months ago.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three BT (Build-Transfer) infrastructure projects in Hanoi were found to have claimed much higher investment estimates than the actual expenditures they required,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in Dak Lak Province have warned farmers not to expand the area under sacha inchi, also called wild peanut, since demand for it is not consistent.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Writer Nguyen Xuan Khanh from Hanoi has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Literary Award for his contribution to the literature in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thi Hien, a 49-year-old from Hanoi who works in the construction sector, won the Mrs Viet Nam title on December 18.

 This year’s list spans the globe, from exciting southern hemisphere cities like Santiago, Chile, and Brisbane, Australia, to harder-to-reach regions like Langkawi in Malaysia.

More than 2.34 billion shares of the PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) will be listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) under the code POW on January 14, 2019.

Non-governmental organisations active in social welfare, Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh pays official visit to Laos, Vice President receives SOS Children's Villages International leader

 Vo Thi Dung, deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Committee, has been picked to perform the duties of Tat Thanh Cang, the permanent deputy Party chief, during his leave of absence from December 17, 2018 to January 3, 2019.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Multidimensional poverty (MDP) in Vietnam witnessed a significant drop from 15.9 per cent in 2012 to 9.1 per cent in 2016 with some six million people escaping from poverty.

 Vietnam has given priority to green growth during its economic development, according to Inter Press Service (IPS).

 The upgrading from Non-Residential to Residential Pontifical Representation shows a stride in the bilateral relations over the past decades.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Surgeons of Duc Giang General Hospital in Hanoi successfully operated on a male patient with acute appendicitis last weekend, despite his internal organs being in different places than most people.

A fishing vessel saved 10 foreign men, including eight Burmese nationals, who were drifting on a life raft in the seas of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, about 25 nautical miles to the southeast of Con Dao Island.

 Vietnam always attach importance to strengthening and enhancing the traditional friendship and sound cooperation with Cambodia for benefits of both nations, as well as regional and global peace, stability, cooperation and development.

 Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 winner H’Hen Nie has successfully made it to the top five in the global Miss Universe 2018, which concluded in Bangkok, Thailand on December 17.