VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health yesterday (Dec 21) issued a public warning regarding the so-called imported vaccine, whose origin and quality it was not able to verify.

Many people in HCM City applying for a new certificate of land-use rights and ownership of housing and associated assets on the land have not received certificates on time as the city's land-use right registration office is overloaded with work.

VietNamNet Bridge - The shares of oil and gas companies have seen a price decrease of 49 percent by November compared with the same period last year, the sharpest so far.

 Thailand’s Amata Corporation Public Company Limited has said it will develop two more industrial-urban complexes in Vietnam worth billions of USD on the back of the successful Amata Industrial Park in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province.

 While Vietnam isn’t a Christian country there’s a festive atmosphere on the street, in stores, and even in homes. Besides being a holiday to enjoy it’s also a time when special services are offered.

 Nguyen Xuan Nam and Le Van Thang of Viet Nam have been listed in the ASEAN's top five scorers of the 2015 season.

 Belgium sculptor Fabian Saeren won top prize at the International Sculpture Symposium, which closed yesterday in HCM City.

 Eight species of orchids that are at risk of extinction have been found in the Central Highlands area.

 The capitalization of Vietnam’s stock market was estimated at more than 1,325 trillion VND (58.8 billion USD), equal to 34 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP), this year.

 Vietnam remains to be in top five of the world’s largest apparel exporters by raking in 28 billion USD from shipping garment products to foreign countries in 2015.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on December 21 handed down sentences to nine defendants related to a financial loss case at a branch of the State-owned Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank).

 Vietnam’s Ministry of Home Affairs will provide short-term training for 20 staff from the Lao Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and Timor Leste Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment signed a memorandum of understanding on rice trade in Hanoi on December 21.

The 11th Party Central Committee has decided to convene the 12th National Party Congress in Ha Noi from January 20-28, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong announced.

Vietnam has actively reviewed the compatibility of its legal system with international treaties in ASEAN in anticipation of the formation of the ASEAN Community at the year’s end.

“I believe that there will be a wave of foreign investors funneling their capital into Vietnam’s logistics sector in the time to come when Vietnam joins AEC and the TPP ,” said Tran Thanh Hai from MOIT.

VietNamNet Bridge - Requiring primary school teachers to update their teaching methods is difficult as they are paid low salaries.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many rare and precious pythons named in Vietnam’s Red Book have been caught by Quang Nam Province residents and slaughtered to protect domestic cattle.

According to several well-known international travel magazines and tour operators, Hoi An Ancient Town in the central province of Quang Nam is a leading ‘food paradise’ with diverse, tasty and cheap dishes.

 Amid the recovery of the real estate market, experts have rung early alarm bells about the risk of supply and demand imbalance by the recent boom in high-end housing projects.