The Ministry of Health has asked Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for more time to issue circulation numbers for certain medical equipment (categories B, C, D) by January 1.

 The HCM City People’s Court on Monday sentenced Huynh Ngoc Den to four years in prison for illegally accessing computer networks, telecommunication networks, internet and digital devices of others.

 The Ministry of Transportation (MoT) on Monday announced eight public-private-partnership (PPP) investment projects under the build-operation-transfer (BOT) form on the Eastern North-South expressway for 2017-2020.  

 Six primary school students exhibiting unusual behaviour were suspected to suffer from dissociation disorder, according to a report director of the Dak Lak Department of Health Doanh Huu Long sent to the Ministry of Health last week.

 The annual Binh Duong Television International Football Cup (BTV Cup) will be organised in late January instead of the customary December.

Vietnam and Japan should pioneer in speeding up the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership as the two nations have a strategic partnership, traditional friendship.

The unemployment rate among university graduates and those holding higher degrees in the third quarter of 2017 was 4.51 percent, compared to 3.63 percent in the previous three months.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has approved an equitisation plan of the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG).

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged newly-accredited US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink to promote the exchange of high-level delegations.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted receptions for newly-accredited Ambassadors of Cuba and Spain to Vietnam in Hanoi on December 26.

Positive developments were seen in Vietnam’s labour market in the third quarter of this year, the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs reported on December 26.

The Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) Submarine cable from Vietnam to Singapore has crashed, negatively affecting internet capacity of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and other network operators.

 The Hanoi People’s Court will open proceedings in the trial of Dinh La Thang and his accomplices accused of wrongdoings at PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) on January 8, 2018. 

 Few living people witnessed the carnage and destruction of the US bombing of Hanoi in December 1972. But those who were there remember it clearly.

Half a decade has elapsed since the Ministry of Transport (MOT) opened up the domestic transport market, worth $50 million a year, to only Vietnamese enterprises.

 Several enterprises in the south, mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong, are accelerating worker recruitment, preparing to up production after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that falls in mid-February 2018.

 Vietnamese shares closed on December 26 on a positive note as large-cap stocks were boosted by expectations for better quarterly earnings and rising oil prices.

 It is estimated that Vietnam’s wood exports will reach 7.6 billion USD by the end of 2017, surpassing the yearly target of 7.5 billion USD set by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

 The number of newly-established firms and firms resuming operations set a record in 2017 with more than 153,000 companies with total registered capital of 3.16 quadrillion VND (139 billion USD).

 Leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) Gennady Zyuganov has recognised the warm support of Vietnam to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution.