VietNamNet Bridge - The overloading at airports and delays of flights could lead to a drop in tourism, experts say. 

VietNamNet Bridge - A man posts a photo of himself with two plucked hornbills (Bucerotidae), asking if anyone wants to join him to have a party with the birds. Other men show via livestream how they slaughter a monkey.

VietNamNet Bridge - Urban parents are sending their children to model and singing classes at a very early age.

 Solar power has become an alternative to fossil energy in many places around the world, experts said.

 Viet Nam needed to develop policies and an ecosystem to encourage angel investors to invest money in start-up businesses, heard a conference on Tuesday held by the Viet Nam National University’s University of Economics and Business.

The Vietnam Airlines Corporation will list 1.4 billion shares on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange in April, 2019.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s People’s Committee has been instructed to conduct a thorough review of a land dispute issues concerning the Hoang Cau-Voi Phuc section of the planned expansion of the city’s Belt Road 1.

 The three unsold packages for leasing advertising space on HCM City public buses will be put up for auction for a fourth time this month following three earlier unsuccessful attempts, according to the Department of Transport.

Hanoi authorities have proposed evacuating more than 2,200 households along the banks of the Red River in its adjusted plan on flood prevention to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

 Vietnamese firms export seafood even to tough markets such as the EU, the US and Japan but are unable to sell their products at home.

 Vietnamese airports are estimated to have served 106 million passengers and handled nearly 1.5 million tonnes of cargo during 2018, up 12.9 per cent and 7.7 per cent year-on-year respectively.

Officials from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and representatives from the central province of Ninh Thuan met with delegates from other countries over the weekend to discuss the Cham pottery village’s application ...

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has officially completed a plan to reduce its holding ratio at other credit institutions to below 5 percent as required by the central bank.

A new field hospital was established in Hanoi on December 13, aiming to train Vietnamese military medical officers to prepare for a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture has proposed adding a new Can Gio Golf Course to the list of city’s golf courses by 2020.

Duong Quang Trung, 39, of Hoi An, the central province of Quang Nam, was given the 2018 “Research Innovation” award on Tuesday by Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom.

 As many as 119 Lao people living in A Doi Commune, the mountainous district of Huong Hoa in Quang Tri Province, were granted Vietnamese citizenship on Wednesday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an 80-million-USD loan to help Vietnam increase the number of health professionals, the ADB announced on December 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Master tennis tournament, Vietravel Cup, will be held from December 18 to 23 in Vinh City, Nghe An Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities are planning to revoke long-delayed projects that have affected thousands of owners of houses near the proposed areas.