Public space in Vietnam’s urban areas has failed to meet demand or create typical characteristics to identify each city, Deputy Minister of Construction Phan My Linh said. 

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official visit to China from January 12-15, according to the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.

 The Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly will convene its 6th session on January 9. 

 Vietnam’s participation in ASEAN cooperation in the environment has clearly demonstrated the country’s proactive, active and responsible integration into the world.

 The Government has issued a resolution on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on sea and fishery cooperation with Indonesia. 

  Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the Finance Ministry to take prompt measures to collect revenues for the State budget right from the beginning of the year at the ministry’s teleconference in Hanoi on January 6. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has congratulated the Vietnam-India Friendship Association on the 45th founding anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations (January 7, 1972).

 Strong trust, mutual understanding and convergence of views mark longstanding India-Vietnam ties, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni told Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.

VietNamNet Bridge - Dong and foreign-currency liquidity was plentiful throughout the year. The interest rate was stable at a five-year low while the dong/dollar exchange rate was also stable with the dong depreciating by 1.2 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge - Securities investors found it easy to make money in the stock market in 2016, and they may have even bigger opportunities in 2017.

 Brands franchised in Vietnam so far have been mostly in the fields of education, health care and food & beverages. However, other industries are eyeing Vietnam, considered to be a highly lucrative market.

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival is approaching, Hanoi’s flower villages are blossoming with colourful fresh flowers of various kinds. Let's make a visit to Nhat Tan flower village, one of the most famous and largest flower baskets in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese businessmen have flocked to Vietnam to collect rubber wood and control 80 percent of rubber wood market share in the Central Highlands.

 Vietnam will continue to be an economic highlight in Southeast Asia in 2017, according to international economists.

 Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is working with Japanese OTA Floriculture Auction Limited Company and relevant local agencies to establish a flower trading centre in the city.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has launch the International Kangaroo Math Contest with the purpose of promoting the movement of teaching and studying Mathematics following the trends of international integration.

Keeping a close eye on and providing consultancy for investigations and judging of serious economic and corruption cases is among major tasks defined by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs in 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 2016 list of stock billionaires showed big changes compared with the 2015 list. Many new faces are on the list, while Pham Nhat Vuong, who topped the 2015 list, fell to number two.

The year 2016 has drifted to an end and marked with complicated and unpredictable situations in the region and the world, in addition to the unstable global economy and the lowest economic growth in recent years.

 The Government has issued Decree 175/2016/ND-CP (Decree 175) to amend and supplement some articles of Decree 86/2013/ND-CP, dated July 29, 2013 on business in prize-winning electronic games for foreigners.