Japan's House of Councilors continually gives priority to cooperation with Vietnam and wishes to facilitate exchanges and experience between the two legislatures, President Yamazaki Masaaki has said.

 Military gears and training programmes worth $26,200 were handed over to the Mapping Department of the Laos People’s Army by the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army in Vientiane on December 8. 

 Belarusian President Aleksandr Grigorievich Lukashenko began a State visit to Vietnam on December 9, at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.

 Doan Minh Dang, a lecturer at the Can Tho University of Technology, who was a champion 10 years ago at the ‘Road to Olympia’, a competition held annually for excellent high school students, is facing heavy discipline for ‘speaking ill’ of the school.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world’s leading conglomerates have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire valuable startups from Vietnamese-born founders.

Development Partners present a range ideas at Vietnam Development Partnership Forum on how to move Vietnam's economy forward.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The organization board of Vietnam International Fashion Week said it is working the plan to launch this event twice each year starting next year.

 The People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City opened the 20th session, the last in the eighth tenure (2011 – 2016), on December 8.

Vietnam and Indonesia have many common interests and their bilateral ties significantly contributes to maintaining peace maintenance and prosperity in the region and the world, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Hoang Anh Tuan.

 Artist Nguyen Cong Hoai has won the first prize at a painting contest organised for Vietnamese young artists.

 One person was killed and some others were injured when a passenger car collided with a four-seater vehicle at the foot of Bai Chay Bridge in Quang Ninh Province.

The Song Hong 2015 Half Marathon will be held at the Ciputra Urban Area in Hanoi on December 13 under the theme “Run for Rhinos”, with the goal of raising public awareness of rhino poaching to serve the demand for rhino horns in Vietnam and China.

VietNamNet Bridge - There is no reliable answer to the question about whether the real estate market has warmed up, because different information sources show different situations.

Foreign superstars headline Hennessy Artistry Concert, Vietnamese remake of ‘Miss Granny’ to show Dec 11, Taste of the World 2015 attendees doubled, Hoi An launches second walking street, Nguyen Du memorial site to become national culture site

  Poor students to have university fees waived, Fire destroys HCM City warehouse, HCM City adjusts reservoir to deal with drought, Ha Noi Run for Children raises funds, Viet Nam needs to improve mental healthcare resources

VietNamNet Bridge - Seaports in Vietnam have not been exploited in a reasonable way: some of them are overloaded, while many others have been unused.

 The slowing world economy looks set to get a boost from stronger consumer demand next year, as low inflation boosts the real value of workers' pay rises to a three-year high,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four young writers have been nominated for best male and female writers of the year in the online Tiki Book Awards 2015, an annual event launched by one of the country's leading online bookstores, Tiki.vn.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony will be performed at a concert at the HCM City Opera House tomorrow by the HBSO Symphony Orchestra and three guest artists from the Goyang Philharmonic Orchestra of South Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mai Duc Chung will return to manage the national women's football team after the Viet Nam Football Federation decided not to extend their contract with Japanese coach Norimatsu Takashi.