The Hanoi People’s Court pronounced on December 22 the death penalty for seven defendants and life imprisonment for two others involved in an inter-provincial drug trafficking ring.

 VN mangosteen hit US and Australian supermarket shelves, Rubber industry expects export recovery this year, Binh Dinh speeding up investment licensing procedures, ABD to help build HCM City’s third ring road

Vietnam plans to boost cooperation in skilled lalour and health care privatization, which is a good chance for Japanese firms, said Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung.

Authorities of the five tourism hubs along the downstream Mekong River area have determined to build transport routes and develop tourism products that connect at least two of the group.

 Bac Ha market in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai Province is held every Sunday and offers a wide range of products like clothes, food and medicinal herbs.

While SCIC can sell only 60 percent of Vinamilk shares, the nation’s leading dairy producer, domestic investors are queuing up to buy shares of Sabeco, increasing the brewery’s share prices.

 The Prime Minister has decided to allocate 165 billion VND (7.2 million USD) as relief aid to seven central localities from Nghe An to Quang Nam and northern Quang Ninh province which have been hit by recent devastated floods.

 The image of Hanoi is expected to reach 420 million families across the globe via the Cable News Network (CNN).

 General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked Vietnamese and Chinese party officials to share practical experience in Party building and the combat against corruption. 

 The Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly concluded its fifth session in Hanoi on December 22.

The VN Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education and the Lao Party Central Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Training have signed an agreement on cooperation between the two commissions in the 2016-2021 period. 

South African leaders expressed their appreciation for bilateral friendship and mutual support with Vietnam over the past more than six decades during talks with Secretary of the Party Central Committee Nguyen Van Binh. 

 A number of luxurious shopping centres in Vietnam are facing slow sales and even closing as they fail to meet customers' changing demand.

Capsule Hotel, the first of its kind, in Sapa town of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, is seen as a new ideal destination for visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) is encouraging the development of steel complexes in coastal areas where there are deep water ports and plentiful land.

VietNamNet Bridge - Trade carried out on Facebook has boomed over the last few years, but the State still has no way of collecting tax on the activities.

VietNamNet Bridge - LOTUSat-1 and LOTUSat-2 are important component projects of the national satellite center, Vietnam’s biggest ever science & technology project with total investment capital of $600 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - While US and Israeli professors are surprised that Vietnamese students scored high on PISA tests, many Vietnamese people wonder why the country remains poor with such good marks on the test. 

 Meat product imports into the Vietnamese market have long been common practice done in accordance with world regulations. However, imports could affect domestic prices and market stability if not taken under full control.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Committee has submitted to the municipal People’s Council a list of 880 projects that require around 7,000ha of land to be acquired.