A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone on board,

Hanoi Police discover goods trafficking cases, VNRC campaign to help the poor, AO victims, Man receives life sentence for trafficking heroin, Vietnamese cultural and historical figure honoured

 The year-end stocks rally on the heels of the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president was built on expectations of reduced regulations, big tax cuts and a large fiscal stimulus.

VietNamNet Bridge - Property projects in the southern and eastern parts of HCMC have attracted buyers from the north thanks to modern infrastructure items.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Getting to the top of Chieu Lau Thi Mountain is hard, dangerous and scary, but the reward is memories for a lifetime. Thanh Nga recounts the experience.

VietNamNet Bridge - MOIT has said that it could not find exact statistics about the annual consumption of petroleum products in Vietnam when it was drafting the program on the crude oil and petroleum product storage system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists have found connections between climate change and the appearance of new diseases, especially vector borne diseases, including dengue fever and malaria.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nokia plans to target the mid-tier and low-cost market segments, which analysts believe will threaten the dominance of Oppo in the Vietnamese market.

VietNamNet Bridge -  As the number of enrichment training classes have been increasing, class organisers are making big profits. But students are losing money.

 Vietnam is one of the countries worst hit by climate change. In 2016, the national climate change strategy has received strong support from the international community.

Viet Nam is among its top 20 key lubricant markets, Shell, the Dutch energy company, has announced.

  A riding tour of the Son Tra Nature Reserve in the central city of Da Nang took place on December 25.

 A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Skills Internship Programme was signed on December 24 in Tokyo between Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs and IM Japan – the Japanese international human resources training agency.

Ha Noi-based Viet Nam Investment Group Joint Stock Company is set to become the largest shareholder of property developer Vingroup, after acquiring more shares of this company. 

 Land prices in HCM City and neigbouring provinces are increasing, with real estate industry insiders attributing it to high liquidity.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will hire a foreign consultancy firm to evaluate its draft master plan for steel production by 2025 and its vision till 2035.

 Viet Nam is expected to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) instead of the current Vietnamese accounting standards (VAS) by 2025 in its efforts to enhance comparability and improve transparency.

 Representatives from four of Viet Nam’s largest telecommunication companies reported very large revenues in 2016, with significant improvements over 2015, at a conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communications yesterday.

 Since early human settlement, wild elephants have been an integral part of Viet Nam’s identity. The cultural icon has inspired poetry, music and art.

 Viet Nam won a silver and bronze medal at the 10th SEA Table Tennis Championships 2016 in Indonesia yesterday.

 Striker Nguyen Cong Phuong and midfielder Nguyen Tuan Anh of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) will return to Japan to compete for their clubs Mito Hollyhock and Yokohama FC in 2018.

 The Junior Golf Open Championship is scheduled to kick off at Tam Dao Golf Course in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on December 26-27.

 A 71-year-old man chose to live in an oasis that is far from his neighbors and unconnected to the power grid and water supply. He has lived this life for almost 30 years and remains content with it, as he guards a mangrove forest area.

 The year-end peak season is approaching but sales of consumer goods have not seen the usual sharp rise.

 Government allocates rice to flood victims in Binh Dinh, Da Nang hosts fifth urban development forum, Joint-programme signed on reproductive health, Nghe An: 38,000 labourers to be provided with jobs in 2017