According to the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), Vietnam will have to cut 669 tariff lines to zero percent in January 2018.

 Local people in Danang City's Ngu Hanh Son District are complaining about the slow re-opening of roads to the beaches which have been blocked by beach-side resorts.

Cycling machines attached to a water filtration system have been installed on the bank of Hoang Cau Lake in Hanoi. These have not only helped local people to do their exercise, but also keep the lake clean.

 A series of projects belonging to real estate giants such as Vingroup, Bitexco, Geleximco, and the BIM Group will be included in the inspection plans of the Ministry of Construction (MoC) in 2018.

 The central city of Da Nang has called for VND1.5 trillion (US$66.3 million) investment in five high-tech farms to create a centre for hi-tech-farming in the central and central highlands region.

 Moody’s Investors Service on Friday affirmed major ratings for two Vietnamese banks, BIDV and Martitime Bank.

A three-day official friendly visit to Viet Nam by Bounnhang Volachith, the Lao Party general secretary and national president, is expected to boost diplomatic and economic co-operation between the two sides.

 The country’s cement surplus this year could be 30 million tonnes and reach 35 million tonnes by 2020 if Viet Nam does not export cement.

Trade development in the Cambodia-Laos-Viet Nam Development Triangle Area remains modest and unsynchronised, failing to match the potential for strategic co-operation between the three countries, speakers said at a forum on Monday.

 New strategies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) must strengthen linkages with domestic enterprises as a lacuna that cannot be ignored anymore, experts say.

 Saigon Heat defeated Mono Vampire 110-94 at the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) at the CIS Arena in HCM City on December 17.

 The first 11 months of 2017 witnessed a boom in foreign investment in Vietnam, which surged up 53.4 percent year on year to reach 33 billion USD of new capital.

 About 25 percent of CEOs or board directors in Vietnam are women, surpassing the figures for Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

 The second deputy-ministerial level Security Dialogue between the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and the Indonesian National Police (INP) took place in Jakarta on December 18.

 The Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation (Petrolimex) will be the first to distribute diesel oil with Euro 5 standard in the Vietnamese market from January 1, 2018.

 Experts forecast about 1 billion USD worth of timber to be exported to the EU annually by 2020 thanks to the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), according to an official of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Association.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a grand welcome ceremony for General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith in Hanoi on December 19.

In these days, hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City admitted many malaria patients from the southern provinces, causing worry of the disease relapse.

VietNamNet Bridge - The size of the consumer market has increased rapidly, attracting more foreign capital.

 Remnants of altars, carved letters in the old Nom script, carvings, architectural posts and beams have been collected together to honour dinh lang, the ancient Vietnamese communal houses that still dot the country.