The Ministry of Transport has issued a decision calling for public-private partnership (PPP) investment totaling nearly VND104.1 trillion in eight sections of the North-South Expressway in 2017-2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Olympian Do Thi Anh played a key role in helping Hanoi win the last gold medal at the National Fencing Championships, which closed in the capital city yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An open tournament for former national table tennis team players will be held in HCM City on December 29-31.

 The insurance sector is set to reach a 22 per cent growth rate in premium volume in 2018.

 It’s essential to explore Hanoi’s craft villages when come to this thousand-year-old city.

VietNamNet Bridge - The real estate market continues to be bustling, with a series of M&A deals in 2007 and to be made in 2018.

 With 13 socioeconomic development targets accomplished and a GDP growth of 6.7 per cent—the highest in the last ten years—2017 is considered a special year for the Vietnamese economy.

Vietnam’s GDP grew 6.81 per cent in 2017, a six-year high and surpassing the initial target of 6.7 per cent, driven by a recovery in agricultural production and a pickup in both industrial output and services.

 The latest figures from the General Statistics Office show that an estimated 12.9 million international visitors arrived in Vietnam during 2017, up 29.1 per cent against 2016.

 Driftwood from the Cai River is being washed up on Nha Trang Beach after two days of heavy rains.

 A babysitter in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has been found for mistreating a two-year-old local boy.

 Up to 24,439 minibuses and trucks with expired registrations will be banned on streets from January 1, 2018, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.

 All contact has been lost with a fishing vessel operating in the waters off Tri Ton island of Truong Sa archipelago since December 20.

 A Russian tourist have been found drowned while his three friends rescued after being washed away by strong waves on a beach in Nha Trang City.

 The Securities Journalists Club on Wednesday announced the top 10 biggest events on Viet Nam’s stock market in 2017.

 Viet Nam’s benchmark VN Index increased for a fourth straight session on Wednesday on investor confidence in both the corporate sector and the country’s overall economy in the fourth quarter.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two drug traffickers were arrested early this week while they attempted to ship drugs to the South.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has allowed Viet Phat Company in the northern province of Lao Cai to export 200,000 tonnes of limonite ore to ease the company’s financial burden.

 The People’s Committee of the north-eastern Quang Ninh Province is calling for an investment of VND15 trillion (US$660.8 million) into five projects.

 Viet Nam’s national women’s football team have been invited to play in an international four-side friendly competition in Guangzhou, China, on January 19-23.

 Pham Le Thao Nguyen achieved the best result of the Vietnamese masters in the 2017 King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.

New Year’s Eve celebration at Piu Piu, New Year’s Eve party features city’s top DJs, Exhibition featuring flowers to open in Hanoi, Le Petit Prince to be screened at L’Espace

Police in Dak Lakhas detained and launched criminal probes into 14 officials of Krong Bong District Branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development for deliberately violating State regulations. on economic management.

 Police in northern Thai Binh Province’s Dong Hung District have detained a young man for allegedly assaulting a doctor at a local emergency centre.

 The railway project management unit of the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway has asked the police to identify the vandal who drew graffiti on the train.