More than 200 award-winning typography and graphic designs are being showcased at the 63rd International Typography Exhibition held in HCM City.

Residents of a village near Phu Bai Airport in central Thua Thien- Hue Province have reported that pressure from airplanes taking off has damaged their roofs.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Hanoi authorities have at least on four occasions set up programs to settle pollution at rivers and lakes, but no considerable improvement has been made.

VietNamNet Bridge - With a 30 percent growth rate in the number of travelers, building or buying hotels promises big profits for investors, including capsule hotels, which have opened in HCMC and other tourism cities.

VietNamNet Bridge - High profitability, stable growth and low risks are driving investors into the education sector.

“Don’t be afraid of Alipay! With Blockchain, we may have payment portals better than Alipay for Vietnam,” the CEO of Tomo, one of the first Vietnamese startups using Blockchain as platform technology, said recently.

Vietnamese can buy bitcoin and other virtual currencies on some trading floors, but as Vietnam doesn’t recognize bitcoin as an official currency, Vietnamese are facing risks when conducting transactions.

Ha The Phuong, deputy CEO of CMC Infosec, has told wi-fi users not to worry about vulnerabilities in WPA/WPA2 protocol, considered the most secure encryption protocol available today.

 Vietnam Web Summit 2017, the largest annual web and internet festival in Viet Nam, opened on December 8 in Ha Noi.

 Viet Nam’s hotel and resort real estate needs to have a comprehensive plan to ensure its development is on the right track.

 The Ministry of Resources and Environment early this week issued a circular suspending a regulation that required each family to include information about every member in their certificate of land use rights, or red book.

 The Viet Nam Cashew Association has provided VND1.5 billion (US$66,000) to the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for growing one million cashew trees on a total area of 500,000 hectares from now through 2022.

 The private business sector in Viet Nam is vital for the economy, however, obstacles and challenges remain, which can only be overcome through the combined efforts of policymakers and business leaders next year.

 The smart city project along the Nhat Tan-Noi Bai route with investment equal to US$4 billion is expected to begin construction in the first quarter of next year.

 Hundreds of television employees will attend the 37th National Television Festival being held from December 13 to 16 in the central province of Thanh Hoa. 

 Lawyer Ngo Anh Tuan has proposed implementing specific regulations on acts of child sexual abuse and lowering the age of criminal responsibility for such abusers from 18 to 16.

 The UN Women and the Australian Embassy in Viet Nam are calling on labourers to participate in an online survey to assess the effects of the revision of the Labour Code on men, women and different labour groups in society. 

 There has been a 91 per cent reduction in the amount of goods controlled by the Ministry of Science and Technology inspected before customs clearance.

 A former member of the Party Politburo and deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission has become the highest-ranked official yet to be snared by the anti-corruption drive initiated by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) on Thursday rejected the Hanoi Taxi Association’s request to extend taxi licences for 12 months.