Bitcoin crossed $14,000 (£10,460; €11,870) on Thursday, surging $2,000 in less than 24 hours.

 Despite difficulties in the global shipping market, joint-venture ports between Vietnam National Shipping Lines and its foreign partners achieved good numbers in this year’s first 10 months, signalling an upward trend after years of poor performance.

Sapa has been enchanting local and foreign visitors with its many kinds of beautiful wild orchids, which are in bloom all year round. Let’s take a look at 14 photos of the flowers found in Hoang Lien National Park.

 Same-sex marriage will become legal in Australia after a historic bill was passed in the House of Representatives.

Located about 100km from HCM City, Tan Lap floating village and Long Hai beach are ideal options for travelers looking for somewhere special to spend their New Year holidays.

All businesses have to pay tax for income they earn in Vietnam. However, Vietnamese taxation bodies have not found solutions to force foreign online booking agents such as booking.com and Agoda to fulfill their tax duties.

Located 45 km east of Hai Phong port city, Cat Ba boasts a typical ecological system in Vietnam, including tropical rain forests, limestone islands, mangrove forests, coral reefs, and sea grass.

 Dozens of motorbike drivers skidded and fell off their bikes in the Kim Lien Underpass in Hanoi on Thursday morning. 

 Police in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District have detained a local man who mistreated his 10-year-old son for a prolonged period.

 Viet Nam’s Housing Development Bank (HD Bank) will be the fifth bank to list its shares on the country’s stock exchanges after VIB, Kienlongbank, VPBank and LienVietPostBank.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) traffic projects will be on 2018’s audit list, the State Audit Office of Viet Nam (SAV) announced yesterday.

A workshop held here on Tuesday brought together dozens of French and Vietnamese specialists on records and archives to review a stack of documents dating back to the French colonial period.

VietNamNet Bridge - The VN Index this year has reached new highs, with the 1,000 point threshold, an all-time high, expected to be very near.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s coach Park Hang-seo yesterday afternoon announced a squad of 27 U23 players to compete at the M-150 international friendly tournament in Thailand from December 9-15.

 Pre-tax profit of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) will hit a new record high of VND13 trillion (US$572.69 million) in 2018, up 26.8 per cent against this year, the SSI Retail Research forecast.

 Vietnamese telecommunication companies achieved positive business results in the first 11 months of this year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 Enterprises from VN and South Korea are encouraged to tap unexploited potential to foster co-operation based on common interests and individual strengths of each country in the face of opportunities and challenges.

 The Hanoi Department of Transport will provide a level-four online service for issuing international driving licences from the first quarter of 2018 as part of the city’s administrative reforms to save time and money for citizens.

 The basic salary for civil servants and public employees will increase to 1.39 million VND (about 61 USD) from the current 1.3 million VND as from July 1, 2018.

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) on December 5 announced its preliminary affirmative ruling on corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) and certain cold-rolled steel flat products imported from Vietnam and produced from substrate originating in China.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese swimmer Vo Thanh Tung won another silver medal, raising his total medal tally to three at the ongoing World Para Swimming Championships Mexico City 2017.

 A concert featuring ethnic minority music will be held to introduce Seaphony Orchestra - the first Vietnamese ethnic minority orchestra at Hanoi Opera House on December 12.

 The Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) has become the first Vietnamese bank to complete the implementation of a Basel II project.

 The joint coordination committee of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle Area will hold its 11th meeting in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc from December 14-20.

 Ministry holds gastronomy festival, Squared Furniture’s winter exhibition, Food Fest this weekend, Xmas fair to open in City, Origami event this month, Music contest held for young labourers