VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet, Petrolimex, VP Bank and Vincom Real were the five ‘blockbusters’ that significantly increased the capitalization of the stock market.

 HCM City authorities will work with Vietnam Education Publishing House to draft textbooks that suit the city's socio-economic development and pupil abilities.

 Playing the Khen panpipe and dancing is a custom of the Mong. The Khen panpipe is a musical instrument that expresses deep feelings and connects this life to the spiritual world.

 The enthusiasm and passion for business found in much of the local youth could make Vietnam a future incubator for startups. Is this enough for the country to build up its own Silicon Valley?

 Residents in several apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City are complaining about the ban on keeping pets at their apartments.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was defeated in the semi-final of the Hong Kong F6 Futures tennis tournament yesterday. 

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh hosted a reception for UK Foreign Office Minister for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field in Hanoi on January 5, where they commended active developments of the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership. 

Next year, Vietnam will celebrate National Tourism Year in Quang Ninh. John Ball traces the origin of the province’s world famous Ha Long Bay to a vast plain that embraced Vietnam and Cambodia and spread all the way, 

Chang Thanh To living on Po Ly Ngai peak in Hoang Su Phi district, Ha Giang province, is the single silver graver who can make 12 sets of traditional jewelries for Nung ethnic brides.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As talk swirls about the upcoming challenge of caring of the elderly, some of these subjects are taking care of society’s problems, putting younger generations to shame.

 People living around Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake are complaining about too many entertainment programmes being held there.

 Last week, Vietnam exported 2 tons of star apples to the US for the first time. This marked a positive growth of Vietnam’s fruit sector in expanding its export market.

Tran Quang Hoai, head of the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, talks to the newspaper Hai quan (Customs) on what he said was abnormal weather in Vietnam last year.

 The government has just proposed major measures to facilitate socioeconomic development in 2018, including the implementation of three strategic breakthroughs and facilitating the country’s progress in Industry 4.0.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thomas Eugene Wilber was 12 years old when his father’s plane was shot down in Vietnam and taken prisoner.

 The telecom sector made up 35 per cent of the value of Vietnam’s 50 largest brands, followed by food (15 per cent) and banking (11 per cent).

ADB (Asian Development Bank) has predicted a 6.8 percent GDP growth rate for Vietnam in 2018, a figure which is much higher than the average growth rate in the region.

 2018 is likely to be a fiercely competitive one for real-estate companies in Ho Chi Minh City since scores of new projects are set to hit the market, analysts said.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue just approved the equitisation plan of state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group under which more than 11 per cent of the group’s chartered capital will be earmarked for domestic strategic partners, but not foreign ones.

The capital city of Hanoi at night is glittered in brilliant and colourful lights from streets and high-rise buildings.