Five Asian countries – Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Indonesia – are predicted to be among the 15 most competitive manufacturing countries in the world by 2020, according to the 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index report.

 Electric vehicles are seeing positive signs on the road to market expansion in Vietnam, but there remain obstacles that must be traversed in order to move ahead.

 Article 34 of Clause 4 in the draft Law on Cybersecurity has not yet received support from foreign firms and local law makers because it will affect firms’ performance as well as Vietnam’s steady march towards a digital economy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Wildcard holders Le Khang Trung and Tat Thai Nguyen booked second round berths at the Viet Nam F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Binh Duong Province yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese heartthrob Noo Phuoc Thinh, whose baby face has charmed a great number of teenaged and young fans, will give a free concert in Ha Noi next week, his first ever in the capital city.

 The Vietnam Tourism Development Fund (VTDF) will have an initial charter capital of VND300 billion (US$13.22 million) from the State budget, according to a draft decision on the establishment and operation of the fund. 

 The Ministry of Health is investigating the deaths of four infants at the Bac Ninh Hospital of Obstetrics and Paediatrics in the northern province of Bac Ninh Province on Monday.

A German man has been found exhausted after losing his way for around six hours in Cat Ba Island National Park in the northern province of Hai Phong.

 Several local experts have stirred their concerns over a project to use natural stone for paving in all of Hanoi’s 12 districts, saying that it would be a waste.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Viet Nam Do My Linh won the Beauty with a Purpose award at the Miss World 2017 beauty pageant, held in China last weekend.

 Viet Nam recorded average forestry production value growth of 6 per cent per year, nearly doubling the target of the national forestry development strategy following 10 years of implementation.

 Viet Nam’s first electric vehicle quick charger system opened on Monday in the central city of Da Nang.

Vietcombank on Monday was estimated to receive VND342.6 billion (US$15.2 million) from selling its entire stakes in the Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade (SaigonBank) and Viet Nam Cement Finance Company.

 The capital could earn an extra US$600 million per year if the majority of transactions are electronic, replacing cash.

  The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of the import of tool chests and cabinets from Viet Nam and China.

 Viet Nam has become an attractive market for Japanese retailers following the popularity of Japanese goods in the domestic market.

 Uber has struck a deal to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo.The agreement envisages that the pick-up service will purchase the vehicles over the course of three years beginning in 2019.

 The Thanh Nien Newspaper International U21 Football Tournament will run in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from December 12-22.

 A scientific symposium was held in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on November 20, seeking to win UNESCO recognition for its volcanic park as a global geographical park.

 The benchmark VN-Index rose to yet another new 10-year peak on November 20, ending the session at 903.55 points, up 13 points, or 1.44 percent over November 17’s close.