The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has conducted a review and is making preparations for imposing safeguard duties on steel imports, after 18 domestic steel manufacturers called for assistance.

 The Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has a firm grip over the on-going reforms inside the ministry after a series of wrongful appointments by former Minister Vu Huy Hoang.

 A survey jointly released by the Ministry of Education and Training and UNICEF has revealed that Vietnamese students face many problems. Less than 20% of students always feel safe at school.

 A new bus route linking Hanoi city centre to Noi Bai International Airport has been launched, offering passengers for VND9,000 (USD0.42).

 Russia’s Kaspersky Lab on December 21 introduced its latest products to protect individuals and small enterprises against online threats.

 The finance ministry has announced that people who own a house will not have to pay tax for the second house they buy in 2017.

Samsung Viet Nam was estimated to reach US$35 billion this year, posting a 7 per cent year-on-year increase despite the impact from this year’s Note 7 incident.

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 The Vietnam national football team will compete in four international tournaments during the 2017 football season, the league announced on December 20 as part of the unveiling of the full conference schedule.

 Ly Hoang Nam came from behind to defeat Jeong Young-Hoon of the Republic of Korea in the second round of the Thailand F5 Futures in Huahin on December 22.

Streets, commercial centres, churches and entertainment places in the capital city are beautifully decorated with lights, Christmas trees, reindeers and decorations to welcome upcoming Christmas.

 Getting rid of a loss-making shipyard member unit is now the top priority of Vinalines, despite the huge potential losses.

 India-based Tata Coffee has released plans to set up a greenfield freeze-dried instant coffee plant in Vietnam with the total investment capital of $50 million. The plans were stated in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Hanoi based tech start-up, Gamota, has won the first ever Facebook hackathon in Vietnam for its beta version of a business management application. 

 Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap and Cambodia’s northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey have inked an agreement on bilateral cooperation for the 2016-2020 period.

 Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has told Hungarian Ambassador to Vietnam Ory Csaba that the Vietnamese capital city is willing to extensively cooperate with Hungary in all spheres.

 The Institute for Nanotechnology-Vietnam National University HCM City said on December 20 that it has made a system to automatically monitor salinity in rivers in the Mekong Delta and set off an alarm if the level is too high.

 A digital economy is an inevitable step for development as the traditional economy is being saturated, said Nguyen Thanh Hung, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications at the 2016 Internet Day event in Hanoi.

 Vietnam has won the men’s team title at the Southeast Asia Table Tennis Championships 2016 in Indonesia on December 21.

 Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park granted investment licences to nine projects worth a total of 200 million USD in 2016, bringing the number of licensed projects up to 78 worth 3 billion USD combined.