The central province of Quang Tri’s People’s Committee held a ceremony on January 15 to announce and hand over the Prime Minister’s decision that approves the construction of My Thuy port. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed that the Vietnamese Government will continue to always create favourable conditions for foreign firms to do business in Vietnam, including those from Japan. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to increase Vietnam’s rankings in information and communication technology (ICT) as ICT is the foundation of all areas, including the digital economy.

 A walk along Huong river was inaugurated and put into use in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on January 15. 

 Vietnam has called for help from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia to search for 10 fishermen who have been missing since December 2018.

Urbanization has gradually increased its pressure on agriculture land of HCMC year by year. 

 Vietnamese surgeons of the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi had performed an operation on a Japanese 62-year-old engineer to remove a 4x5 tumor in his rectum, said the hospital yesterday.

 Surgeons reattach scalp of a woman whose whole scalp was peeled in an awful labor accident.

 Although the Housing Law permits foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam but there has been no instructions to implement the law. 

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The requested all citizens and contractors to call the Ministry’s hotline 024.39413313 or leaders of the Ministry’s anti-corruption department when discovering corrupt public sector employees.

 Hanoi is coated in a thick blanket of fog due to a mix of light rain and humidity these days. Even until afternoon, the fog does not disperse. This weather brings about a different appearance for Hanoi.

The strong rise of Vietnamese-made smartphones is expected to slow the massive influx of Chinese imports.

 Nearly 80 leading scientists in applied physics and materials science from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are gathering at the Vietnam – RoK International Symposium on Applied Physics (V-KISAP) 2019.

 Domestic and foreign enterprises have increased investments in the electric scooter business, following the increasing popularity of electric scooters in major cities.

With the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) just around the corner, a kumquat tree garden in the northern province of Hung Yen has been inundated by customers seeking to buy bonsai kumquats trimmed to resemble giant vases.

 An Indonesian man has been found dead at a building in the central city of Danang.

 Hanoi authorities have successfully negotiated with the residents living near Nam Son Dump to stop blocking the rubbish truck so that they can clear the piled up rubbish in the city.  

 The central coast is being damaged by too many resort projects.

 On the first day of the New Year, the Government issued Resolution No 01/NQ-CP/2019 for the robust development of the securities market, especially the derivatives segment.

 Despite difficulties in the first half of 2018, the domestic automobile market saw impressive growth compared to the previous year with nearly 290,000 vehicles sold during the year, an annual rise of 5.8 percent.