Concerted efforts are needed to enhance cooperation between the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam and the US in a number of areas, including education, energy security, food security, agriculture and health.

 Forest rangers in Quang Binh on Wednesday detained a man who was carrying two stripe-headed black langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis), listed by International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species.

 Vietnamese cueists, Ma Xuan Cuong and Ngo Dinh Nai, have entered the main round of the Three-Cushion World Cup in Hurghada, Egypt.

 Six South Korean archers of the Doosan team that won the silver medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics are training members of the Vietnamese national archery team in Hanoi.

 Saigon Heat will start their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) this weekend, targeting a better place than their previous play-offs.

The movie Sài Gòn, anh yêu em (Sài Gòn, I love you), directed by Ly Minh Thang, won the jury prize at the ASEAN – China Film Festival on December 4.

 A cold front approached the northern region late last night, dropping the temperature and causing scattered rain across the region.

 Hanoi’s narcotics police have caught two men for illegally transporting a large amount of heroin from the mountainous Northwest for retail dealers in the capital city.

 Bai Choi singing, a folk music genre practised in Vietnam’s central region, has been added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. 

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council (ninth tenure) set a gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth rate of 8.3-8.5 percent for 2018 during its sixth session that took place from December 4-7. 

 Vietnam is witnessing a wave of digitalisation in the retail banking industry, driven by industry 4.0 technologies.

 The Hanoi People’s Court on December 6 opened proceedings in the case of ex-deputy director of the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Pham Minh Nguyet, and five others accused of violations in economic management.

 The 10th Ho Chi Minh City Book Festival will return to Le Van Tam Park in District 1 from March 19-25, 2018 with over 35 million copies of books planned for display.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has applauded contributions of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Vietnam’s socio-economic development as well as national management.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made it clear that Hong Kong is an important partner and market of Vietnam at a reception for Shen Tian Qing, Chairman of Jia Yuan group of Hong Kong (China) in Hanoi on December 7.

 Seventeen million babies under the age of one are breathing toxic air, putting their brain development at risk, the UN children's agency has warned.

 REE and Vingroup acquires Vinaconex subsidiary in US$50-million deal, Garment exports likely to hit 31 billion USD in 2017, THACO becomes Mitsubishi Fuso's general distributor, NFSC: 11M credit growth at 15.3% 

The deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and the Environment Le Tuan Dinh has reassured the public that the air quality in Hanoi is not as bad as the figures in the Green Innovation and Development Centre’s (GreenID) report.

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