With Chinese renminbi joining the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) reserve currency basket, the dong/dollar exchange rate will be affected, according to financial experts. But it will have little effect on Vietnam.

 Many companies have declared over hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong to pay dividends in the next two months.

As the country with the lowest per capita GDP among TPP signatories, Vietnam will enjoy comparative and unique advantages such as labor-intensive manufacturing and fewer tariffs when TPP comes into effect, according to the World Bank. 

  Kaspersky Lab's latest report on spam and phishing in the third quarter shows that the US, Viet Nam and China are the top three countries producing spam.

When the world's longest ocean race, the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race, visits Da Nang City's port in February, Nguyen Tran Minh An will make a heroic return home as the city's first resident to compete in the challenge.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced that it would pay from VND 1-50 million (USD44-2,221) to whistleblowers who report on the use of banned substances in animal feed.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Some fish can be used for medical treatment or can bring good luck. They are sold at very high prices.

Cancer is becoming a health calamity in Vietnam as the disease’s burden accounts for 66 percent of total disease costs and badly affects to the socioeconomic growth.

Vietnam Airlines is undertaking negotiations with strategic investors in order to complete the conditions for the sale of shares by the end of this month, General Director Pham Ngoc Minh said.

 On December 11, the 2016 edition of the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships (MOSWC) was launched nationwide.

  Nearly 20 Vietnamese workers working for a Chinese contractor in a construction site in Algeria went on strike on December 9, all of them wish to return home as soon as possible. 

  Vietnamese athletes took the lead in a number of categories on the opening day of qualifiers for the Aerobic Gymnastics Asian Championships in HCM City yesterday.

 The National U19 Football Championship 2016 will be organised from January 11.

Nearly 200 photos of Viet Nam's sea and islands are on display at the HCM City War Remnants Museum to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Viet Nam People's Army, which falls on December 22. 

Three infrastructure projects in Hanoi, including the capital's airport, were named among the recipients of the sixth Japan International Co-operation Agency President Award, becoming the first in Vietnam to receive the award.

 VietNamNet Bridge - While foreign capital is flowing to real estate in Vietnam, domestic capital is going to the international property market.

 Curently the public has raised concern over harmful using of the most popular social network Facebook by young people and asked schools to give them instruction on how to use Facebook usefully.

 The Vietnamese tra fish exports and those of many other Siluriformes fish will have to struggle with USDA's final inspection rule, said Truong Dinh Hoe, General Secretary of the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

 Nine female factory workers are worried about their health after being touched by a stranger on the way to work in District 9, HCM City recently.

 The Airport Corporation of Viet Nam will take coercive measures to soon stop illegal taxi services from wooing tourists at the Noi Bai International Airport.