Vietnamese students have brought home a silver and four consolidation prizes at the 10th International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in Bhubaneswar city in India’s Odisha State.

 The forestry sector will protect, develop and sustainably use existing forest areas and land fund for forest development with a view to raising the country’s forest coverage to 47.25 percent in 2017.

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells with glycerol at -80 degree Celsius for 10 years and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist have been awarded the KOVA Prize.

 Fox Sport Asia has selected the Team of the Tournament after the end of the AFF Suzuki Cup, with two Vietnamese in the line-up.

Vietnamese Nguyen Thuy Linh triumphed at the Nepal International Series’ badminton tournament on December 17 in Kathmandu.

 The Da Nang fine arts museum, the third fine arts museum in the country, opened to the public on December 19. 

Myanmar’s Yan Naing Oo buried Vietnam’s hope to win the first match of the International U21 Football Tournament’s Group A with his goal during additional time in HCM City on December 18.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture is producing two documentaries aimed at advertising domestic tourism following the ministry’s tourism advertising through cinema project.

OCB shareholders decided at a recent meeting that there will be a change of listing plans. The bank’s shares will now be listed on the HCMC Stock Exchange and not on the Unlisted Public Company Market, or UPCoM, as decided earlier.

 A requiem was held at Ba Da Pagoda in Hanoi on December 18 to pray for victims and Vietnamese and foreign soldiers who died while protecting the country during a US airstrike in December 1972.

President Tran Dai Quang has called on the entire Vietnamese people to bring into play the national resistance spirit, step up the national industrialisation and modernisation, while firmly protecting the socialist Vietnam.

 A delegation from the Ministry of National Defence led by Deputy Minister Be Xuan Truong paid an official visit to Cuba from December 12-18.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam has proposed Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha instruct relevant bodies to accelerate the signing of an agreement on criminal extradition as a legal foundation for the two countries’ law enforcement forces.

The National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on December 19 discussed the preparations for the third session, which is scheduled to last 22 and a half days from May 22, 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pollution from pesticides has reached alarming levels in some provinces of the Red River Delta, known as the granary of Viet Nam’s north.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture is producing two documentaries aimed at advertising domestic tourism following the ministry’s tourism advertising through cinema project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has set a target of saving 2 - 2.5 percent of energy consumption per year between now and 2020, with a view to protecting the environment.

Scientists have unlocked some of the genetic secrets of the weird and wondrous seahorse including its exotic eccentricity of male pregnancy. 

Thirty-nine agricultural products and 40 outstanding companies were honoured at a programme displaying high quality agricultural products by the Viet Nam General Council of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

 Police yesterday arrested a suspect in a robbery at a branch of the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam (BIDV) in Hue City earlier this month.