Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected what it considers to be the 10 most outstanding economic events of Vietnam in 2017.

Viet Nam’s benchmark stock index, VN-Index, could exceed 1,300 points in 2018 due to the positive outlook for the country’s economic growth and a strong inflow of foreign investment.

Viet Nam U20s qualify for their first U20 World Cup, held this year in Cheonan, South Korea. Viet Nam was the third South East Asia country to make an appearance in this tournament 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Ly Hoang Nam secured his first win of the year at the Hong Kong F6 Futures tennis tournament yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese stock market in 2017 saw stock prices escalating, but not all investors could make money.

Leaders of the Communist Party, State and Government of Vietnam on December 31 extended their congratulations to their Cuban counterparts on the 59th anniversary of Cuba’s Revolution Day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Tran Dai Quang has written an article to mark the 50th anniversary of the Mau Than general offensive and uprising in spring, 1968.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ha Noi-based designer Do Trinh Hoai Nam’s ao dai (Vietnamese dress) collection, called Women in Love, will open the Paris Fashion Week-Haute Couture 2018 on January 23.

 Take a tour to Dong Lac Communal House at 38 Hang Dao Street, Hanoi, it's your chance to explore Hanoi craft culture and ancient architecture.

All Vietnamese citizens can now participate in spreading knowledge conveniently and effectively thanks to the “Digital Vietnamese knowledge system” project – an ambitious Wikipedia-like portal tailored for Vietnamese, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Traffic accidents killed 67 people and injured 74 others during the three days of New Year holidays, data from the Ministry of Public Security showed on January 1.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The usage of online public services at the district level in HCM City has gained significant progress, 

China is boosting this type of funding, seemingly to pave the way for Chinese companies to secure contracts in Vietnam’s coal-fired power projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Trong Thuy, an expert from the Viet Nam Agriculture Technique Science Association, talks to Viet Nam News about achievements of the agriculture sector in 2017.

Ba Thị Cham, MA, a female scientist, has created 20 health care products, seven of which have been transferred to enterprises. All of them are synthesized from herbs.

Vietnam once put high hopes on automobile joint ventures, believing that foreign technologies would help develop the automobile industry. However, it now believes that it would be better not to rely on outsiders.

With a special talent of imitating songs of hundreds of bird species, Truong Cam, a forest ranger in Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien – Hue province, is known as ‘the bird caller’.

 HCMC received nearly 800 businesses from 15 nations and territories learning about local market and investment opportunities in December this year. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Almost everyone in Tinh Tra Commune, Son Tinh District in the central province of Quang Ngai farms to earn their living.

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more parents, especially urbanites, want to send their children to school at the age of five instead of six as stipulated by the law.