Citizens of Hanoi and tourists alike will be entertained with dazzling firework displays at 30 sites across the city on the 2018 Lunar New Year’s Eve.

VietNamNet Bridge - Expanding the scale of their business and jumping into new business fields is the path being followed by conglomerates with powerful financial capability.

 Telecom operator Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) reached a consolidated profit of VNĐ5.01 trillion (US$220 million), a year-on-year increase of 21 per cent.

Attractive holiday tours are giving residents and visitors a wide range of choices to see the most beautiful, interesting and historical parts of the country. 

Vietnam representative Tran Thu Hanh has surpassed many candidates from different nations to rank among top 12 finalists of Mrs. World 2017 beauty pageant.

 Vietnam’s stock market and fund certificate value reached 3.36 quadrillion VND (148.17 billion USD) in 2017, equivalent to 74.6 percent of the country’s GDP. 

A counter-terrorism exercise was held at Cam Ranh International Airport on December 26. 

Taiwanese apparel maker Eclat Fabrics has requested permission to increase dyeing production capacity in its Ba Ria-Vung Tau factory from 10% of the factory’s output to 100 percent.

 Hanoi has experienced a new cold snap with drizzle, causing certain difficulties for life of local residents.

Fugitive oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh, who fled to Europe, is facing the death penalty for million-dollar losses at State-owned PetroVietnam, while its former Chairman Dinh La Thang may receive 20 years in prison for his poor management.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision to develop nearly 1.3 hectares of depots by 2030 with an estimated investment of VND20trn (USD881m) to VND22trn.

 The banking sector’s profits were anticipated to rise significantly in 2017, driven by the handling of bad debts and the recovery of the property sector.

 The Ministry of Health has asked Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for more time to issue circulation numbers for certain medical equipment (categories B, C, D) by January 1.

 The HCM City People’s Court on Monday sentenced Huynh Ngoc Den to four years in prison for illegally accessing computer networks, telecommunication networks, internet and digital devices of others.

 The Ministry of Transportation (MoT) on Monday announced eight public-private-partnership (PPP) investment projects under the build-operation-transfer (BOT) form on the Eastern North-South expressway for 2017-2020.  

 Six primary school students exhibiting unusual behaviour were suspected to suffer from dissociation disorder, according to a report director of the Dak Lak Department of Health Doanh Huu Long sent to the Ministry of Health last week.

 The annual Binh Duong Television International Football Cup (BTV Cup) will be organised in late January instead of the customary December.

Vietnam and Japan should pioneer in speeding up the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership as the two nations have a strategic partnership, traditional friendship.

The unemployment rate among university graduates and those holding higher degrees in the third quarter of 2017 was 4.51 percent, compared to 3.63 percent in the previous three months.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to add 10 relics to the list of special national relics.