More than 94,750 businesses were founded in 2015, representing a rise of nearly 30 per cent compared to the previous year, statistics have revealed.

 Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh has expressed Vietnam’s resolute protest against China’s pilot flight to an illegally-built airport on Chu Thap (Fiery Cross) reef in Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

 The annual “Xuan Que huong” (Homeland Spring) programme, a run-up to the Lunar New Year festival, will take place in Hanoi on January 31 with various cultural activities for overseas Vietnamese.

 The long-awaited decree detailing the implementation of the 2014 Investment Law was finally issued last month with clear regulations on investment conditions and procedures, especially those applicable to foreign investors.

Mr. Glenn Maguire, ANZ Chief Economist, South Asia, ASEAN & Pacific, spoke about consumption trends in Vietnam now and in the future.

Vietnam’s second position on the list of the world’s biggest coffee exporters has been threatened. The country's coffee market share has decreased from 22 percent last year to 18 percent in 2015. 

VietNamNet Bridge – US newspaper CnTraveller has cited Son Doong Cave in Vietnam’s central QuangBinh Province among the world’s top 15 Places that look like they’re on Another Planet. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Eighty-three-year-old Meritorious Artist Nguyen Thi Ban has devoted her life to preserving “Quan ho” (love duet singing). 

Foreign ownership in SOEs may indeed be welcome but the ongoing obstacles are seeing many foreign investors lose interest.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Compared to 2010, the average productivity per worker in Vietnam increased nearly 24%, but it was not enough to offset the gap in productivity with other countries in the region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For most people, rubbish represents the end of all activities of human life. For Le Thien An, it is the beginning of everything.

Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on December 28 presented a Government’s draft Resolution on key tasks and measures guiding the realization of the Plan for socio-economic development and state budget estimate in 2016.

 The 18th National Men's Cycling Tournament-Ben Tre Television Cup is scheduled to begin in the southern Ben Tre Province on January 11.

The public paid attention to a competition for gifted and talented ninth grade students organised by Hong Linh Town's Department of Education and Training in central Ha Tinh Province last week

VietNamNet Bridge - Three banks with no dong have new CEOs and many other banks have appointed their CEOs. The changes in the banking sector have never been so big.

The Vietnam Thermal Technique Science Association has found a cost-effective solution which reduces the volume of consumed coal, reduces ashes and the greenhouse gas emissions, and improves the efficiency of the combustion chamber. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Veterans and youngsters from the Anh Binh Minh Traditional Art Troupe in Tra Vinh Province tour the Mekong River Delta region to introduce du ke, a unique style Khmer musical theatre from southern Viet Nam.

 The Ministry of Finance has thrown its weight behind a removal of many incentives for automakers as a full-fledged auto industry has remained far-fetched despite all sorts of policy incentives over the past 20 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Banh it (Little Cake) is one of specialties of the central in Vietnam, commonly used in regional death anniversaries and marriage rituals as well, but now it has become a snack that you can enjoy anytime. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thi Thuy Nga, director general of the Social Insurance Department, spoke toThoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Viet Nam Economic Times) about the new Social Insurance Law.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has approved the Ministry of Education and Training’s plan on the hosting of the 19th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) in 2018. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – As the New Year holidays are coming, contaminated sausage, smoked pork legs made of expired frozen meat, and dried grapes dyed of industrial colorings are slipping into stores and supermarkets.

On the occasion of the New Year, Nguyen Duc Chung, Chairman of the Ha Noi Municipal People's Committee talks about the city's plan to make Ha Noi richer and more beautiful.

VietNamNet Bridge – The United States Federal Reserve (FED) on December 16 raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 percent for the first time in nearly a decade.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Art and entertainment groups like the Viet Nam Circuis Federation must find their own funding as State sponsorship begins to dwindle in the face of a growing market economy.