VietNamNet Bridge – The August shooting of two high-level officials in Yen Bai was motivated by personal cause, said the local police yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 14 million spam messages are frustrating phone users across the country every day despite efforts by information and telecommunication authorities to combat them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Sunday (Dec 25) said it has received a resignation letter from Vu Quang Hai, Deputy General Director of Sai Gon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Company (Sabeco).

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnam has seen a ‘whirlwind’ of goods from ASEAN countries and China, Vietnamese enterprises still have not found effective solutions to conquer the vast ASEAN market of 1.9 billion consumers.

 Thirteen-year-old Dinh Thanh Hai won MasterChef Junior Viet Nam Season 1 on December 25.

 Greece has reported a case of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus in a wild bird, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing official information from Greece.

 A HCM City-based company has offered to build a nine-storey smart parking lot in the city’s downtown area, and the Department of Transport has sought approval from the administration.

 2016 was a jam-packed action year for sports fans. There was so much to cheer about despite some real heartbreakers. Here is the list of the 10 best sporting events of 2016, in no particular order.

 Am Tien Cave, Trang An, Tam Coc, and Bich Dong to name a few are attractive destinations for visitors to Ninh Binh province.

 Sony Music Entertainment's Twitter account was hacked on Monday, publishing fake statements that pop music icon Britney Spears had died.

On December 25, the ancient ritual Hau dong, a spirit possession ritual of the Mother Goddess religion, recognized as an intangible cultural heritage, debuted at West Lake in Hanoi.

 Vietnamese artist brothers Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep have smashed a Guinness World Record by climbing stairs with one sibling balanced atop the other using only head-to-head contact.

 Vietnam along with Thailand, China, India and Indonesia, participated in the fifth sea festival 2016 in Cambodia from December 23-25.

 Students from the University of Industrial Fine Arts in Hanoi and the University of Architecture in HCM City have received gold awards at the 2016 Asia Young Designer Award Competition.

 The sixth Buon Me Thuot coffee festival and the Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival 2017 will take place in Dak Lak province from March 8 – 13 next year. 

A master plan to develop the physical strength and height of Vietnamese people in the 2011-30 period is expected to help improve the quality of human resources of Vietnam.

 The newly-appointed Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Kunio Umeda has pledged to spare no effort to contribute to the development of football of the two countries.

 World football governing body FIFA has ranked Vietnam at No 32 in the women’s category.

 The Government has issued a resolution, approving the extension of its rice trade agreement with the Philippine Government. 

 Natural disasters and environmental pollution can reduce GDP by 0.6 percent per year from 2016-2020, according to the National Centre for  Socio-economic information and Forecast (NCIF) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. 

 Vietnam welcomed the 10 millionth foreign visitor in 2016 at the Phu Quoc airport in the island district of Phu Quoc, the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on December 25.

 The Prime Minister has approved the recognition of 13 more places as national special relic sites in terms of history, architecture and landscape.

 The Police Department for Investigation of Drug-related Crime under the Ho Chi Minh City Police is detaining a Colombian woman who illegally transported 1.6kg of cocaine to Vietnam.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc pledged to work hard to remove and adjust unsuitable land use policies to accelerate agriculture development during a year-end conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

European investors are running 1,809 valid projects worth 23.16 billion USD in Vietnam, accounting for 8.7 percent and 8 percent of total EU projects and investment in the country.