"South Korea has fulfilled up to 99% of the workload for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peyongchang city from February 9-25, 2018," said Jihye Lee, PR manager of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – For Italian painter Laura Federici, the chance to visit Viet Nam and paint in the country was a long-held dream that has now come true.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Van Thao is expected to win the first-ever World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title for Viet Nam today in Bangkok.

Vietnamese commercial banks are planning to sell a stake in their company to foreign investors to attract capital and hasten their restructuring before listing shares on the bourse. 

The concrete tomb built for a king’s mother under the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) in Hue has been excavated illegally, with local authorities suspecting lust for gold being behind the grave robbing.

 The capital city’s Hoan Kiem Lake will be dredged and cleaned by the end of the year, according to the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company Ltd.

 The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on November 22.

 Some 80 golfers will compete at the Ladies’ National Amateur Golfer Championship  2017, which begins at FLC Quy Nhon Golf Links in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on December 7.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Education Ministry has proposed free tuition for all public elementary and secondary schools as “an appropriate mechanism” for universalising access to education in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New rules could push thousands of freelance tourist guides out of work next year, creating a serious shortage in the industry, 

Pha Din Pass in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, 100km from Dien Bien Phu city, locates in the Ta Phin plateau and is one of four renowned passes in the northwest region of Vietnam.

 The benchmark VN-Index hit an almost decade-high on November 22 after large cash flows poured into blue-chip stocks on investor optimism over a sustainable uptrend.

 A freight train service between Hanoi and Nanchang city in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on November 22.

 The Gabriel Péri Foundation of France held an international seminar on the East Sea at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on November 21.

 With 83.1 percent of approval, the National Assembly approved a resolution on investment policy for the construction of some road sections in the eastern route of the North-South Expressway in 2017-2020.

 A tourism portal dedicated to people with disabilities (PWDs) was launched by the Hanoi Disabled People Association on November 22.

Ly Xuong Can, a descendant of King Ly Thai To has been appointed Vietnam’s tourism ambassador to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for 2017-2020 by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will pay official visits to Singapore and Australia from November 26 to December 2, according to a statement of the NA Committee for External Relations released on November 22.

 The Vietnamese Party and State always attach importance to the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, affirmed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.