Eleven houses in Tien Thanh commune in Phan Thiet city of the south central coastal province of Binh Thuan collapsed on December 20 due to coast erosion triggered by high tide and strong wind.

 Disasters in 2017 caused losses of $306bn (£229bn), according to estimates from insurance giant Swiss Re.

 Pianist Nguyen Duc Anh, who earned a master’s degree at Freiburg Conservatory of Music in German, will hold a free piano concert at the HCM City Museum of Southern Women on December 27.

 HCM City has taken the lead in prenatal and newborn screening, with 80 per cent of total births in the country receiving screening since 2011, according to the city’s Population and Family Planning Division.

 Facebook Messenger is reported to be under attack in recent days by a new virus.

 The Supreme People’s Procuracy has pronounced the second verdict charging former director of Da River Pipeline project Hoang The Trung for “violating construction regulations and cause serious consequences.”

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc thanked Danish Ambassador to Vietnam Charlotte Laursen for her important contributions to the two countries’ relations while receiving the outgoing diplomat in Hanoi on December 20.

 The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin (VAVA) mobilised nearly 306 billion VND (13.5 million USD) to support AO victims in 2017, heard a conference in Hanoi on December 19. 

 The job market in Vietnam is expected to be largely positive next year as the country continues to develop its manufacturing base, recruitment companies said.

 A ceremony took place at the ASEAN Secretariat headquarters in Indonesia to bid farewell to outgoing Secretary General Le Luong Minh.

 Vietnam expects to earn more than $212 billion from exports this year, much higher than $176 billion last year.

 6 am - the temperature isonly 9 to 10 Celsius degree. Many people are still curled up in bed. Yet manual labourers in Long Bien wholesale market have been working since midnight.

Late yesterday, the Viet Nam National Committee for Search and Rescue sent a vessel to rescue a local fishing boat which had ran out of fuel and was drifting at sea 116 nautical miles from O Cap Cape

A fire broke out last night at the Quang Ninh Exhibition of Planning and Expo Centre in the northern province of Quang Ninh, just a night before a local festival scheduled to start today.

 The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced on December 21 that a tropical low pressure system has formed in the eastern waters of the southern region of the Philippines and has strengthened into a new tropical storm.

Fines and penalties for pedestrians violating traffic laws, some as high as VND100 million or 15 years in jail, will take effect in the next 10 days. However, on many of Hanoi’s streets, violations such as crossing roads ...

VietNamNet Bridge - The maritime shipping crisis has forced shipping firms worldwide to join alliances to improve their competitiveness. Such alliances have also been set up in Vietnam.

 New collaboration signed between UNFPA and the Government, Photo books protect Son Tra Reserve, Play on Mau Than Offensive to be staged in HCM City, Drug smugglers arrested

 VietNamNet Bridge – A group of Hanoi expats is giving something back to the city they now call home.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All 11-digit mobile phone numbers in Vietnam will be changed to 10-digit numbers in 2018, said Pham Hong Hai, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications.