The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman put forward a number of wrong and dangerous arguments to defend the country’s recent test flights to a reef in the East Sea, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has said.

 The Government has promulgated a Resolution underlining key measures to realise the socio-economic development plan and State budget estimates in 2016.

 Two Vietnamese judokas left for Tunisia yesterday to compete in the judo Olympic qualifiers from January 12-18.

 Vietnam's top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam jumped one spot to 912th in the latest ATP rankings announced on January 11.

 Hospital rankings will be publicised for the first time this year in an effort by the Ministry of Health to improve healthcare services, the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 Dozens of HCM City police officers were mobilised to capture drug trafficking ringleader Ngoc Em, 50, in Nguyen Thuong Hien Street's Alley 183 in Binh Thanh District yesterday afternoon.

 Crude oil fell 3 percent on Tuesday, heading toward $30 per barrel and levels not seen in over a decade, with analysts scrambling to cut their price forecasts and traders betting on further declines.

 Japan’s biggest air transport group All Nippon Airways (ANA) is set to become National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines’s strategic partner after buying 8.8% of VNA, according to an announcement by VNA on January 12.

 The biggest icebergs breaking off Antarctica unexpectedly help to slow global warming as they melt away into the chill Southern Ocean, scientists said on Monday.

 Rapidly evolving technology is upending the traditional pecking order in the luxury car market, which until now has operated on the principle that bigger is better.

VietNamNet Bridge – Boredpanda – a leading art, design and photography community website in Europe- has published beautiful photos of nature landscapes and people in Vietnam’s northern mountain town of Sapa,

Striker Nguyen Cong Phuong has been listed alongside Mustafa Amini of U23 Australia and Chanathip Songkrasin from Thailand in the top 16 goal-scorers at the final round of the 2016 Asian U23 Football Championship.

The domestic automobile market witnessed a boom in 2015 with a series of records, but concerns still exist as manufacturers worry they cannot compete with imports after import tariffs are cut. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the northern province of Hoa Binh, visitors can drop by Chi Ne Town in Lac Thuy District to take a look at the first money factory of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This unique kumquat garden has an area of about 600m2 with over 300 bonsai kumquat trees in the shapes of a dragon, unicorn, phoenix and turtle.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A local company has successfully produced fireproof, bulletproof paint made from rice husks, with the price one third of foreign products of the same kind.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to the Museum of Cham Sculpture can view three national treasures that are stored and exhibited in the museum of more than 100 years old located in the heart of Da Nang city.

Head of the Vietnam Food Administration Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday said that the news of Vietnamese-made disposable chopsticks containing cancer-causing substance was not official; accordingly the department could not reach any conclusion.

 The final round of Miss World Vietnamese Businesswoman peageant took place at M3 Live Anaheim Art Theatre in the United States yesterday evening.

A group of researchers of the Hue Royal Traditional Art Theater has completed a scientific report on restoring the Phu luc dich (Phu luc for the flute), one of the Royal Court popular songs, according to the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.