The annual book street festival during the Tet holiday season will take place from January 25-31 (on December 28- January 4 of the lunar calendar).

 The Hanoi People’s Committee has issued a decision adjusting the planning for the new urban area in Me Tri, Trung Van and Phu Do wards in Nam Tu Liem district.

 Provinces and cities along the central and southern coast are taking preventive measures in anticipation of a tropical pressure moving southeast towards the coast.

Two subsidiaries of Fraser & Neave Ltd controlled by Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi each bought 39.19 million shares of Vinamilk, at the minimum price at an auction held at the HCM Stock Exchange today.

 Operations are going on “normally” at HCM City-headquartered DongA Bank after five of its managers and employees were arrested for financial wrongdoing, according to the central bank.

 Top Vietnamese female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien failed in the women’s 200m medley at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), which wrapped up in Canada yesterday.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player, Ly Hoang Nam of Binh Duong Province, easily took  the men’s singles title at the National Best Tennis Players Tournament that wrapped up in Nghe An Province on Saturday.

 Top Vietnamese female badminton player Vu Thi Trang won two titles at the Yonex Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge on Saturday.

 Saigon Heat lost to Hong Kong’s Eastern Long Lions 74–84 in their second match at the ASEAN Baksetball League (ABL) on Saturday at the HCM City’s Canadian International School Arena.

 Viet Nam topped the Southeast Asian Age Group Swimming Championships, which closed in Thailand on December 11.

 A talk on Vietnamese and Thai literature will be held at HCM City’s Social Sciences and Humanities University on December 15.

 Three sculptures and 20 paintings by renowned Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian artists will go under the hammer at an auction in HCM City this Saturday.

 Fish bred in cages in a lagoon near the ocean in Thua Thien-Hue Province died en masse for still unknown reasons beginning Thursday last week.

 The public security ministry’s police investigation agency has decided to prosecute two former top officials of the HCM City-based Đông Á Bank (DongA Bank), it officially announced today.

 A reconstruction plan for old apartment buildings in Hanoi should be completed by the end of this month, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

 Dr Nguyen Viet Nhung, director of the Central Pulmonology Hospital, is one of the 19 members of the first task force on global tuberculosis research founded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). 

An installation art exhibition introducing the public to Hanoi’s finest traditional handicrafts has opened at the Ly Thai To Flower Park at Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.

Com lam (steamed sticky rice in bamboo tubes), a specialty in Tay Bac (the northwestern region), is a "must try" dish for visitors to the region which is home to various ethnic minority groups.

In our country, the word "comrade" is commonly used, especially in Party organizations, the armed forces, and political - social organizations. 

‘Western Street’ in Nha Trang City, central Khanh Hoa province is always busy and crowded during the night time, becoming a rendezvous for numerous foreign travelers, particularly Russians.