Joining in UN peace-keeping operations is the major guideline of Vietnam, aiming to actualise the country’s foreign policy of multilateralisation and diversification of relations.

 Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong held a reception for Laos’ newly- elected Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City Somxay Sanam-Oune on December 28.

 Vietnamese cyclists will compete in the Asian Road Racing Championships that will be held in Japan on January 16.

Despite the sharp fall in crude oil prices in the world market, Vietnam still has achieved the highest GDP growth rate this year in the last five years. 

  Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) midfielder Luong Xuan Truong signed a two-year loan deal with K-League's Incheon United in HCM City yesterday.

 The Viet Nam Competition Authority said that the Minister of Industry and Trade had ordered an investigation against imported steel ingots and steel bars for the application of safeguards.

 HCM City faces a deficit of around VND42 trillion (US$2 billion) in infrastructure funding over the next five years, the head of a State financial firm has said.

 Vietnam’s industrial production index increased 9.8 percent in 2015, the biggest expansion in the past five years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 Vietnam’s export turnover in 2015 is estimated at 162.4 billion USD, representing a year-on-year increase of 8.1 percent, the lowest pace over the past five years.

VietNamNet Bridge - Gone is the time when big fish swallow smaller fish. It is now the time when faster fish will eat slower ones, according to Nielsen.

 The Ministry of Transport has instructed relevant agencies to closely monitor fees charged by carriers to ensure the decrease in fuel prices is factored in.

 Vietnam’s stock market is forecast to face a range of hurdles in 2016, said Vu Bang, Chairman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC) at a ceremony to round out the top ten stock market events in 2015 in Hanoi on December 28.

While the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) believes opening a new road to serve the forest patrol and protection is necessary, residents of Dong Nai province think it is dangerous.

 Hanoi need joint hands from ministries and state agencies in developing a plan to reduce the use of personal vehicle in the city in order to ease the worsening traffic congestion.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly all the talented students who finished math major classes at high schools for the gifted have succeeded in their lives and business.

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, spoke with Vietnamese startups, and met with young game developer Nguyen Ha Dong and Truong Gia Binh, president of the Vietnamese largest information technology group FPT.

VietNamNet Bridge - As Kinh Do has sold its sweets manufacturing division to the US firm Mondelez, Vietnam has no company that can compete with foreign manufacturers in the sweets market.

It is 80 percent possible that Big C will be taken over by investors from Thailand, as Metro Cash & Carry has also been sold to a Thai group, BJC, according to Vu Vinh Phu, chair of the Hanoi Supermarket Association. 

 The country’s population is estimated at 91.7 million this year, an increase of 974,900 people, equivalent to a 1.07% increase, compared to 2014.

 Hundreds of households in the central coastal Khanh Hoa province's Van Ninh district have claimed compensation for their losses from the building of National Highway No 1.