Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen began a two-day official visit to Vietnam from December 20. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has backed a credit support package of VND50 trillion ($2.2 billion) to develop the country’s agriculture sector.

Nguyen Manh Kien from the capital city of Hanoi and Ton Thi Thanh Tuyen from the southern province of Binh Duong were named the winners in male and female categories respectively at the Vietnam Fitness Model Contest 2016,

VietNamNet Bridge – This Christmas, children will welcome yet another album from music writer Hoang Thu Trang, whose debut album of children’s songs became a huge hit.  

 Girl group Fifth Harmony has become four.The pop group formed out of U.S. talent show "The X Factor" in 2012 said on Monday that Camila Cabello was leaving the quintet but that the band would be moving ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new printed monthly Vietnamese magazine specializing in mathematics will be published from January 2017. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of Japanese investors who want to develop agriculture and fishery projects in Vietnam is on the rise as more Vietnamese favor Japanese food items. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoa mai and hoa dao, one yellow and the other pink, are without doubt the two most important, auspicious flowers in Viet Nam.

 International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Figure Skating Championship wraps up today at the Vincom Ice Rink Thao Dien in HCM City.

 A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others in what Germany's interior minister said looked like an attack.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sumptuous and magnificent Saigon skyscrapers shimmer in the dark at night. These buildings are symbols of a Saigon which is increasingly expanding.

 The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery on Monday by an off-duty police officer who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire.

 SHB Da Nang are ready to compete with Yadanarbon of Myanmar in the second match of the Toyota Mekong Club Championship’s preliminary round on Friday at Ha Noi’s My Dinh Stadium.

 Coffee export volume forecast to reduce in 2017, Export turnover to reach $178 billion in 2016, Central city and Gifu Shinkin bank ink MoU on investment, HCM City guarantees loans worth VNĐ360 billion for SMEs

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lawrence Manley Colburn, the US army helicopter gunner who helped stopped the massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by US troops at My Lai in 1968, has died at the age of 67, reported the Associated Press.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Transport has asked the central government for permission to choose investors to build six multilevel parking garages under the Private-Public Partnership (PPP) mode.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Army and Student Cross-Country Tournament closed in HCM City on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the food sector have occurred recently, with most of the buyers from Thailand, Japan and South Korea.

Central highland province to host first culture festival, Tuyen Quang to grow 11,400 ha of forests in 2017, Vietnamese workers in RoK get together, Man sentenced to 10 years for causing serious accident