Hiratsuka Niki, a Japanese-English artist from Australia, appears cheerful to the casual observer. But in her mind, she is haunted by a sad past: she was abused by her father when she was young.

 The UK's recycling industry says it doesn't know how to cope with a Chinese ban on imports of plastic waste.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop direct air routes between Vietnam and key countries and regions across the world, aiming to promote investment, cultural exchange and international integration. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to build Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park in the central province of Quang Binh into a national tourist site by 2030.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Aiming to bring traditional art closer to art lovers, IAcA Café will host an exhibition and talk show Folk Paintings through the Eyes of Young Artists on Sunday.

 Winter storms are sweeping across western Europe, causing three deaths and widespread disruption.

 Australian authorities have begun recovering the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed near Sydney, killing six people.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese drug market, valued at $5.2 billion, is attracting more foreign investors and multinationals.

At Vietnam’s Golden Ball Awards, goalkeeper Dang Thi Kieu Trinh won Best Female Player for the third time, capping the 20-year career of a woman considered one of the best goalkeepers in Vietnamese football history. 

 The Ministry of Health has announced the top ten events of Vietnam’s medical sector in 2017 as follows:

 The VN-Index broke the 1,000-point threshold on January 3, closing up 0.99 percent  at 1,005.67 points, despite increasing profit-taking pressure towards the end of the session.

 Storm Bolaven has weakened into a tropical pressure system after moving into the waters west of Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on early January 4, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. 

 Vietnamese tennis ace Ly Hoang Nam is still inside the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)’s top 500 tennis players in early 2018.

 About 20,000 artefacts were unearthed in Linh Son pagoda, which is located within the Oc Eo archaeological site in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, between August and December 2017.

The investigation police agency of Bac Ninh police department has decided to start criminal proceedings against the case of a recent explosion that killed at least two children and injured nine people on January 3.

 2017 is considered a successful year for the tourism sector, with 13 million international tourists arriving in Vietnam, up by three million against the previous year.

 In recent years cooperation between Vietnam and the United Kingdom has flourished. 

 As many as 20,080 traffic accidents were reported in 2017, killing 8,279 people and injuring 17,040 others, according to the National Committee for Traffic Safety. 

 The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) Co. Ltd. on January 3 officially finished the acquisition of Dien May Tran Anh (Tran Anh Digital), giving it the ownership of an over-90-percent stake at Tran Anh.

The Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) submarine cable from Vietnam to Singapore, which was crashed on December 23, 2017, will be fixed from January 6-7, according to an Internet services supplier in Vietnam.