The body of Vietnamese pilot Nguyen Thanh Trung, who was killed in a mid-air collision in the United Kingdom, will be returned to Viet Nam on December 5-6 for the funeral.

 Visitors could get a look back at the glorious days of Hanoi in the "Dien Bien Phu battlefield in the air" at the exhibition "Recalling memories" in Hoa Lo prison relic site.

 Vietnam is working towards achieving higher levels of food security. In recent years, the country has adopted various measures to boost agricultural product exports, filling gaps in the global food market.

 The year-end tourist season and New Year are approaching; it’s also a busy time to entice holiday-makers to buy tour packages, especially outbound tours. 

 The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) was honoured with the AFC Developing Member Associations of the Year award at the AFC Annual Awards 2017 ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 29.

 An exhibition displaying over 300 ancient Oc Eo artefacts opened at the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Ho Chi Minh on November 29.

 The Tony Award-wining comedy Lend Me Tenor by Ken Ludwig will be performed by the Dragonfly Theatre at Soul Live Project in Ho Chi Minh City on December 1-3.

 Vietnamese weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan excellently won three gold medals at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in the United States of America yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A crew member of a squid-catching ship that sank was rescued after more than 20 hours, according to the Binh Dinh Province Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control

If the target of downsizing the public workforce by at least 10 percent in 2021is obtainable, regular budget spending will slide by 5 percent, equivalent to US$1.98 billion making it easy to build Long Thanh Airport.

Trinh Van Vinh brought home another gold medal for Vietnam from the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships on Thursday afternoon (Hanoi time) in California, the United States.

 Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has jumped 27 places to 495th in the world top 500 of the Association of Tennis Professionals men’s singles rankings.

While mobile payments are becoming more widely used in many countries, the service  remains unpopular in Vietnam, despite the high number of mobile phone subscribers.

 Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK.

 A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than 120 television sets from budget hotels across southern India over a four-month period.

 Authorities of Hoi An Town have issued a new regulation permitting permanent residents without foreign spouses to provide homestay service for tourists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Documents, photographs and memorabilia of American prisoners of war went on show at Tim Lai Ky Uc (Finding Memories) in Hoa Lo Prison yesterday and will run until February.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese disabled athletes are ready for the World Para Powerlifting Championships and World Para Swimming Championships, slated for December 2-8 in Mexico City.

 A new law is set to ban bank owners in Vietnam from taking up senior positions at non-financial firms, a move aimed at overhauling the banking sector, which has been mired in cross-holding controversy.

A number of agencies and district-level authorities in Hanoi have proposed a reconsideration of the increase in street and pavement usage fees. They say it is too high in comparison with the current rate.