The National Best Tennis Players Tournament will run from December 17-22 in the central province of Nghe An, the event’s organisers announced yesterday.

 Eleven Japanese films released over the last three years will be screened at the annual Japanese Film Festival in HCM City from November 24 to December 9.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 60,000 sq.m of pavements in the central districts of Hanoi are being misused as parking areas, blocking pedestrians and degrading footpath quality, 

Lawmakers voiced support for appointing a single chief to run each special administrative-economic unit, instead of setting up People’s Councils and People’s Committees, while discussing a draft law on such units on November 22.

 Charity Christmas show to be held in HCM City, Christmas sale at Bookworm, French DJ Voiski presents two shows, DJ Sister Nancey to perform in HCMC, FVH walking tour to Thăng Long Citadel

 VietNamNet Bridge – Candidates for the Golden Ball Awards 2017 were announced yesterday in HCM City.

"South Korea has fulfilled up to 99% of the workload for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peyongchang city from February 9-25, 2018," said Jihye Lee, PR manager of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – For Italian painter Laura Federici, the chance to visit Viet Nam and paint in the country was a long-held dream that has now come true.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Van Thao is expected to win the first-ever World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title for Viet Nam today in Bangkok.

Vietnamese commercial banks are planning to sell a stake in their company to foreign investors to attract capital and hasten their restructuring before listing shares on the bourse. 

The concrete tomb built for a king’s mother under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) in Hue has been excavated illegally, with local authorities suspecting lust for gold being behind the grave robbing.

 The capital city’s Hoan Kiem Lake will be dredged and cleaned by the end of the year, according to the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company Ltd.

 The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on November 22.

 Some 80 golfers will compete at the Ladies’ National Amateur Golfer Championship  2017, which begins at FLC Quy Nhon Golf Links in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on December 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Education Ministry has proposed free tuition for all public elementary and secondary schools as “an appropriate mechanism” for universalising access to education in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New rules could push thousands of freelance tourist guides out of work next year, creating a serious shortage in the industry, 

Pha Din Pass in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, 100km from Dien Bien Phu city, locates in the Ta Phin plateau and is one of four renowned passes in the northwest region of Vietnam.

 The benchmark VN-Index hit an almost decade-high on November 22 after large cash flows poured into blue-chip stocks on investor optimism over a sustainable uptrend.

 A freight train service between Hanoi and Nanchang city in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on November 22.