Deputy Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang received a delegation of the Command of Thai Royal Air force led by Commander-in-Chief Jolm Rungswang in Hanoi on January 10.

 Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City reached five billion USD in 2016, said Deputy Director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City branch Nguyen Hoang Minh on January 10.

 Students from the Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City won first prize in the Breaking Down Barriers contest that called for designs and upgrades of public works for people with disabilities.

The Lunar New Year holidays (Tet) are magical in Hanoi with sidewalks, street lamps, storefronts and government offices richly adorned with festive lights, flowers and ornaments.

 More than 500 florist households in Xuan Quan commune, Van Giang district, Hung Yen province are gearing up for the biggest season of the year – the upcoming Lunar New Year festival or Tet.

 The United Nations (UN) should prioritise building a strategy for conflict prevention in the long run, said a Vietnamese diplomat.

Vietnam has just entered 2017, but already market analysts are trying to predict the trends of the next 12 months. Senior economist Le Xuan Nghia, director of the Business Development Institute.

 Trinh Linh Giang has climbed up the ATP world ranking to stand at No 1,637, the ATP’s announcement has revealed.

Members of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee asked for measures to prevent planning overlap and wastefulness while discussing the draft Law on Planning at their on-going sixth session on January 10.

 The US founded retail chain 7-Eleven announced plans in mid-2016 to open its first store in Vietnam in the spring of 2017.

Projects which fail to meet waste treatment requirements would be rejected, and completed projects would only be put into operation when their treatment of waste water treatment met environmental standards.

$1.62 billion mobilised by stock market in 2016

 Thailand’s TCC Group, which purchased the Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam in January 2016, on January 10 announced the official change of the brand name “Metro Viet Nam” to “MM Mega Market Viet Nam”.

 Samsung will raise the number of its level-1 suppliers in Vietnam to 29 this year, according to Deputy General Director of Samsung Vietnam Bang Hyunwoo.

 US firms wish to collaborate with Ho Chi Minh City in developing a smart city, heard a meeting between the US Consul General in HCM City, Mary Tarnowka, business representatives and local authorities on January 10 in the city.

The unreasonably warm winter has caused up to 80 percent of the peach blossom trees in the capital city’s major peach blossom gardens to bloom prematurely, well ahead of the Tet holiday.

 As many as 2,223 sets of martyrs’ remains were found and reburied  in 2016, together with three collective martyrs’ graves, fulfilling 74 percent of the set target for the year.

The International Tennis Federation is willing to cooperate with the Vietnam Tennis Federation and HCM City to deploy training programmes for Vietnamese tennis players and trainers, helping the country to obtain higher international achievements.

 The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs investigated wages in 2,000 businesses with an average of 360 employees in 18 cities and provinces nationwide in 2016, with results indicating an increase from 2015.

 Vietnam always wants to further educational cooperation with the US as it is deploying three breakthrough tasks, such as improving qualifications of human resources, for rapid and sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.