A new fee schedule will apply for the granting of licenses to foreign financial institutions in Vietnam from January 1, 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The increase of personal vehicles and poor transport infrastructure are the major reasons for traffic congestion in Hanoi and other big cities in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Trinh Van Quyet, president of FLC Group, a real estate developer, is a dollar billionaire. Quyet was born into a poor family. He became a lawyer and then a billionaire. 

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a threat to the country on Monday, saying that if she is elected a probe into her emails could shadow her entire term in office,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vo Tuan Nhan, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, spoke to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) about the country’s efforts to adapt to climate change.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Viet Hung, a farmer in Lam Ha District of the Central Highlands Lam Dong Province heaves a sigh with hard-to-conceal disappointment on his face when visiting his macadamia garden.

Hanh Thien, a 600 years old village in Nam Dinh, is famous for having a lot of successful laureates. The village still retains traditional architectural value which reflects the wisdom and vision of the village founders hundreds of years ago.

VietNamNet Bridge - The HCM City Fine Arts and Woodworking Association predicted that Vietnam may reach $7.6 billion from timber and wooden exports in 2016, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2015. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Linh Phuoc pagoda is located at 120 Tu Phuoc, Ward 11 in the resort city of Da Lat, known as the pagoda of Vietnamese records.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MoCST) will conduct a survey on cultural affairs of 53 Vietnamese ethnic minority groups.

 Northern Quang Ninh province has asked the Amata Vietnam Joint Stock Company, owned by Thailand’s Amata Corporation, to begin construction of the first phase of a high-tech industrial park and township complex.

We are witnessing a tragedy called the political playground of major countries, especially in the East Sea. So how can small countries struggle against the power that is seeking every way to rise, with the burning hegemonic ambition.

 A series of new policies on land levy, specific allowances for a number of judicial and inspection titles in the Army, assessment of primary pupils shall come into force in November, 2016.

 European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan will lead a high-level mission to Vietnam from November 2 to 4 to sound out trade opportunities.

 Mai Tien Dung, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office, has defended a proposal for hiking Government debt to no higher than 55% of gross domestic product (GDP).

 Sound measures to tackle the country’s mounting bad debts are available, and all it takes is having the guts to employ them, in an effort to systematically solve such issues for the sake of society and the economy.

 At the World Economic Forum last week, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc confirmed the government’s policy to allow foreign investors to engage more in Vietnam’s economy via accelerated equitisation of state-owned enterprises and capital divestments.

 The Halloween parades in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on October 30 attracted thousands of people in a bewildering variety of costumes, from the surreal to the thoroughly gruesome and disgusting.

 Vietnam chess master Nguyen Quoc Hy won a silver medal at the World Cadets U8, U10 and U12 Chess Championships that wrapped up on October 30 in Batumi, Georgia (local time).

 The 50 leading Vietnamese IT companies reportedly earned revenues of VND28 trillion (US$1.2 billion) last year, accounting for 35 per cent of the sales reported by the software and digital content industry.

 In a ceremony this afternoon, the Ho Chi Minh Museum received a portrait of President Ho Chi Minh by Algerian-French artist Mustapha Boutadjine.

 Severe floods are expected as the river water level is rising swiftly in the central Quang Binh and Ha Tinh provinces, which were devastated by historic floods earlier this month.

 Consumers in HCM City can check the origin of pork they buy under a city project that will be piloted from December 10 this year.

 The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City declared 17 Zika infections in the city as of October 31, all detected by the local disease monitoring system.

 Domestic and foreign researchers and managers in archaeology gathered in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on October 31 to seek ways to promote the value of the archaeological studies of the Paleolithic age.