VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed in principle to deploy a pilot service for carrying tourists on double-decker open-top buses in seven cities and provinces to develop tourism. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Models Dang Thi Le Hang, 23, and Hoang Thu Thao, 22, will represent Viet Nam in the Miss Universe contest and Miss Tourism Queen of the Year International 2016, respectively.

 Vietnamese to become hockey coaches; Da Nang in semis of Binh Duong football tournament; Viet Nam into semis of regional deaf football tournament

With the third largest population in SE Asia and 70 percent of people of working age, Vietnam has high potential for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers.

Actor Brad Pitt's request to seal court documents in his high-profile custody and divorce proceedings involving actress Angelina Jolie was rejected by a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday. 

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Tet will arrive in the next two months so foreseeing the increasing demand for employment, many rural labourers are flocking into cities, including Ha Noi to work as seasonal labourers. 

 Nokia will be launching new products in Vietnam without announcing exact kinds of feature and smartphone products.

 The conglomerate VinGroup will sell its entire ownership in the logistics service firm Phat Loc Express and Trading JSC (Phat Loc Express), VinGroup said in a statement.

 The International U21 Football Tournament is scheduled to kick off on December 18 in HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium.

 Belgian techno DJ to perform in HCM City, British bass producer to perform in HCM City, British artist showcases work in HCM City, Fine Arts Assn organises sculpture exhibition to usher in New Year, Walking tour to hit Hà Nội highlights

 While he might be young, Vietnamese-American piano child prodigy Evan Le, aged five, has already been stunning audiences everywhere he goes with his amazing otherworldly talent.

 The Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange has announced it will present its 13th annual Christmas Concert on December 16 in the courtyard of its facilities at 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.

 Foreign investors have keens eyes on hydropower projects, which account for a large proportion of Vietnam’s power output to meet the rising demand.

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team was knocked out of the Southeast Asian Football Championship after the 2-2 second-leg draw at My Dinh Stadium on December 7. 

 The numbers of delayed and cancelled flights of domestic carriers were 36,844 and 1,605, accounting for 16.1 percent and 0.7 percent of the total flights, up 0.6 point and 0.2 point, respectively from the same period last year.

 Moody’s has forecast that the Vietnamese banking system will remain stable in the next 12-18 months, reflecting its expectation that the country’s macroeconomic stability will support the banks’ weak credit profiles.

  A workshop on the East Sea issue held in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6 issued a statement welcoming the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the waters.

 Asian shares hopped higher on Thursday after Wall Street strode to new records and bonds rallied on wagers the European Central Bank would extend its asset buying campaign at a policy meeting later in the session.

Nearly 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in Indonesia on Wednesday when a strong earthquake hit its Aceh province and rescuers used earth movers and bare hands to search for survivors in scores of toppled buildings.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Quang Ninh People’s Committee has decided to fund the Van Don – Mong Cai Highway and has chosen a Vietnamese contractor, instead of seeking a loan from China as initially planned.

 There were no survivors after a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, the airline's chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote crash site.

 The Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre on December 7 and France’s Embassy in Vietnam organised a workshop exchanging experience on the sending of a sapper unit to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions.

 There is plenty of room for Vietnam and India to deepen bilateral defence cooperation based on their comprehensive strategic partnership.

 Vietnam welcomes investors from Russia and Kursk province in particular and will provide them with all possible support, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh told Kursk Governor Alexander Mikhailov during a reception in Hanoi on December 7.