Foreign friends have been impressed by Vietnam’s expanded integration in international institutions and its bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. Here are achivements of Vietnam's international integration process in 2016.

 ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh has highlighted achievements that the ASEAN Community has scored after one year of its establishment in an interview recently granted to Vietnam News Agency.

 The following are the top ten information and communication technology (ICT) events in Vietnam in 2016.

 The Health Ministry has recently released its top ten events of 2016.

 A German passenger on Vietnam Airlines’ flight VN36,  which landed at the Noi Bai International Airport in the morning of January 1, was the first foreign visitor to set foot in Hanoi in 2017.

 Vietnamese representative Pham Thuy Linh won the best costume award at the 19th Miss Tourism International which has recently taken place in Malaysia. 

 The annual “Xuan Que Huong” (Homeland Spring) programme will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20 with a variety of cultural activities to welcome overseas Vietnamese (OVs) back for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

 The following are Vietnam's top 10 sports events of 2016.

  Erosion is threatening residential areas and shrimp farming land in coastal areas of Go Cong and Tan Phu Dong districts in the southern Tien Giang Province.

 The US continued topping the list of 200 countries and territories importing Vietnamese goods in 2016, with a total import value of over 34.8 billion USD, according to the Government’s portal.

 Vietnamese shares may advance in 2017, analysts say, cautioning that market conditions can get volatile with international events of 2016 continuing to exert unpredictable impacts on Vietnam.

 HCM City hopes to incorporate 50,000 new companies this year (2017) so that there are 500,000 operational ones by 2020, Chairman of the city People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.

 Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) rose by 7.5 percent this year, much lower than the 9.8 percent growth seen in 2015.

 Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) rose by 7.5 percent this year, much lower than the 9.8 percent growth seen in 2015.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has reaffirmed its determination to pursue a proactive and flexible monetary policy in 2017.

 Vietnam gained trade surplus of 2.68 billion USD in 2016, the General Department of Customs reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will undertake 80 traffic projects in 2017 at a cost of VND39 trillion (US$1.7 billion),

 Local authorities in France confirmed on Monday an outbreak of severe bird flu in the Deux-Sevres administrative department in the west of the country, an area previously unaffected by a recent spate of bird flu cases.

 Several travel companies in HCM City have said that their rivals manipulated contact information on Google Maps in an alleged tactic to steal clients, with contact numbers deliberately changed as an act of business sabotage.

Over $2.81 billion was spent on the upgrading and construction of transport infrastructure in the Central Highlands over the last five years, significantly contributing to the local socio-economic development.