Pursuing a consistent policy of attaching much importance to the relations with the US, Vietnam stands ready to work with the Trump administration.

More Chinese businesses have set up wooden furniture processing factories in Vietnam order to take advantage of preferential tariffs importers are offering to Vietnamese exports.

Regardless of global uncertainties, domestic policy changes and market fluctuations, Vietnam’s real estate market will continue growing in 2017 thanks to a plethora of driving factors.

 Fertiliser stocks which suffered a dismal 2016 are expected to rebound this year given long-term rising demand as well as global price hikes, according to industry estimates.

 Nearly 200 Vietnamese enterprises are participating in the component supply chain used by three Samsung plants in Viet Nam, including 20 tier-1 vendors and 178 tier-2 vendors.

 Viet Nam took top position in the Southeast Asian Vovinam (Vietnamese traditional martial art) Championship, yesterday in Seam Reap, Cambodia.

 A suspect in January 12 killing of a 15-year-old girl in HCM City’s Go Vap District has been arrested.

 Only around 100 wild elephants, and an additional 60 in captivity, remain in Viet Nam, with most living in Dak Lak, Dong Nai and Nghe An provinces, a conference on elephant conservation heard on Wednesday.

 On the occasion of Lunar New Year, people often buy souvenirs for their friends, relatives. The 2017 Lunar New Year is the Year of the Rooster, as a result, souvenirs with rooster images are in high demand.

 Vietnam wants to develop further friendly relations and multifaceted cooperation with Senegal, stated Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria and Senegal Pham Quoc Tru.

 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe begins on January 16 a two-day visit to Vietnam, the last leg of his first trip abroad in 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - Export growth has been slowing down for textile and garment firms, but the industry has not made a decision to target the domestic market.

VietNamNet Bridge - After Nguyen Ha Dong’s Flappy Bird emerged in early 2014, marking Vietnam’s position in the world market, Vietnam’s game industry developed rapidly with numerous game studios, big and small.

Dried fields, cattle dying of thirst, expensive drinking water, sea water overflowing houses. In 2016, the lives of millions of people in Mekong Delta, Central Highlands and central region were upset because of drought and salinity intrusion.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 10 richest women on the stock market have total assets worth VND19.301 trillion, accounting for 11.5 percent of total assets of the 500 richest Vietnamese billionaires.

VietNamNet Bridge - Eighty percent of students say they have suffered from gender-based violence at least once, while 71 percent of students have been affected by school violence in the last six months. 

 Many university graduates seem to feel that a high paying executive job upon graduation is an entitlement and not something to be earned.

While the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) wants to resume exploitation of Thach Khe, the largest iron mine in South East Asia, after eight years of interruption, Ha Tinh provincial authorities are reluctant to do so.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts were cautious about the trade surplus of VND2.7 billion in 2016, saying that the figure did not show the entire picture of the national economy. 

 Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport has become increasingly crowded as people worsen overcrowding by coming to meet their relatives returning home for the lunar New Year (Tet).