A delegation of Hanoi Party Committee led by Vice Standing Secretary Ngo Thi Thanh Hang paid working visits to Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia in early December to foster friendship and cooperation with the capital cities of regional countries.    

 Secretary of State at the Polish President’s Chancellery Krzysztof Szczerski has affirmed that Poland highly values Vietnam’s position in Southeast Asia and wants to foster all-around ties with the country. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has congratulated Ambassador of Timor Leste Jorge Trindade Neves De Camoes on fulfilling assigned tasks during his four-year tenure in Vietnam. 

 Ireland will work to push the Vietnam-European Union free trade agreement, the Irish Ambassador to Vietnam, Caist Moran, told Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a meeting on December 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  Many streets and buildings in HCM City have been decorated beautifully for the Christmas and New Year's season, attracting many people at night.

 Looking back at the success we have achieved after 30 years of renovation, it is not difficult to see the lesson about the power of consensus, seizing and taking advantage of opportunities that we learned from the August Revolution.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many managers of state-owned corporations have gone abroad recently for health care or training courses. Some of them have lost contact with their enterprises. 

 A farmer in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has succeeded in training his snakeheads to jump high out of water. His fish have attracted many visitors.

 The overall growth of Vietnam’s telecom market will start to decline following a period of rapid development, according to “The Emerging Asia-Pacific telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2016-2021” released by The Report Linker.

VietNamNet Bridge - To deal with the unprofitable Dung Quat shipyard, MOIT believes that declaring  bankruptcy is the most feasible solution.

 Unemployment may rise because of the high numbers of unskilled workers and increased industrial automation.

 Sun Group, Vingroup and the Hanoi Export-Import Company (Geleximco) will provide the finance for Hanoi to prepare a master plan for the Red River renovation project.

 The continual erosion of forested land by local people has narrowed the living space for elephants in Dong Nai Province, leading to more conflict. In addition, the province’s elephant conservation project has still proceeded at a very slow pace.

 Viet Nam is likely to miss an export growth target of 10 per cent that the National Assembly set for 2016, official data has suggested.

 To cope with increasing climate change and trade barriers, the Vietnamese tra fish industry must alter its current production method and focus more on the domestic market, said Agricultural and Rural Development Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has hailed the role of Irish Ambassador Cait Moran, who is in the first year of her mission in Vietnam.

  Four Vietnamese players advanced to the next round of the Nepal International Series badminton tournament in Kathmandu on December 15.

  Vietnam has witnessed a strong wave of migration within the country over the past three decades, as reported at a workshop held by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the General Statistics Office (GSO) in Hanoi on December 16.

 On December 15, the General Department of Security under the Ministry of Public Security said it had found two men suspected of spreading currency revaluation rumours.

 Midfielder Luong Xuan Truong is on top of an ongoing poll by goal.com voting for the best player of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup.