VietNamNet Bridge – V.League side Long An have signed a one-year contract with American Ashkanov Apollon for their upcoming tournament. 

 Economic growth and inflation targets proposed for 2017, Tech trader to open 350 food stores next year, VAMC to have new leaders, Vegetable, fruit exceeds rice export for first time, Hanoi’s GRDP increases by 8.5% in 2016

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of solutions proposed by the HCMC Department of Transport to cope with the worsening traffic situation in the city are considered ineffective in a long term, said traffic experts.

 Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday in light pre-New Year holiday trading with markets adopting a wait-and-see stance less than a week before the first output cut deal agreed between OPEC and non-OPEC members

 VietNamNet Bridge – The August shooting of two high-level officials in Yen Bai was motivated by personal cause, said the local police yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 14 million spam messages are frustrating phone users across the country every day despite efforts by information and telecommunication authorities to combat them.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Sunday (Dec 25) said it has received a resignation letter from Vu Quang Hai, Deputy General Director of Sai Gon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Company (Sabeco).

VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnam has seen a ‘whirlwind’ of goods from ASEAN countries and China, Vietnamese enterprises still have not found effective solutions to conquer the vast ASEAN market of 1.9 billion consumers.

 Thirteen-year-old Dinh Thanh Hai won MasterChef Junior Viet Nam Season 1 on December 25.

 Greece has reported a case of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus in a wild bird, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing official information from Greece.

 A HCM City-based company has offered to build a nine-storey smart parking lot in the city’s downtown area, and the Department of Transport has sought approval from the administration.

 2016 was a jam-packed action year for sports fans. There was so much to cheer about despite some real heartbreakers. Here is the list of the 10 best sporting events of 2016, in no particular order.

 Am Tien Cave, Trang An, Tam Coc, and Bich Dong to name a few are attractive destinations for visitors to Ninh Binh province.

 Sony Music Entertainment's Twitter account was hacked on Monday, publishing fake statements that pop music icon Britney Spears had died.

On December 25, the ancient ritual Hau dong, a spirit possession ritual of the Mother Goddess religion, recognized as an intangible cultural heritage, debuted at West Lake in Hanoi.

 Vietnamese artist brothers Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep have smashed a Guinness World Record by climbing stairs with one sibling balanced atop the other using only head-to-head contact.

 Vietnam along with Thailand, China, India and Indonesia, participated in the fifth sea festival 2016 in Cambodia from December 23-25.

 Students from the University of Industrial Fine Arts in Hanoi and the University of Architecture in HCM City have received gold awards at the 2016 Asia Young Designer Award Competition.

 The sixth Buon Me Thuot coffee festival and the Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival 2017 will take place in Dak Lak province from March 8 – 13 next year. 

A master plan to develop the physical strength and height of Vietnamese people in the 2011-30 period is expected to help improve the quality of human resources of Vietnam.