BKFace, a product created by a group of five students from Hanoi University of Science & Technology, Hanoi University of Foreign Trade and Hanoi Economics University, recognizes faces with a high accuracy level of 96 percent.

 After years off the grid, Huynh My Truc Lien, a Vietnamese chef whose restaurants welcomed two former US presidents, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, made a comeback with a signature lobster pho dish priced at $22.

 After 25 years, Vietnamese-Korean two-way trade turnover hit $60 billion and is expected to reach $100 billion by 2020.

 Events to be held in Hanoi & HCM City from December 25 to 31.

 Centrally-run cities and provinces are allowed to celebrate Tet 2018 (lunar New Year) with fireworks as long as the State budget must not be used for such shows.

 The Ministry of Transport has requested the contractor of the Hanoi’s Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line to commit to ensuring their behind schedule proposal.

 The current development and future strategies of many local commercial banks are creating confidence about a sustainable growth of the banking sector.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has asked the relevant agencies to ensure all
ATMs are operational in the months approaching Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, when there is high demand for cash transactions.

 A company in My Hao District, northern Hung Yen Province, has been fined more than VNĐ600 million (US$26,000) for various environmental violations. 

 FLC Thanh Hoa have introduced five new players, who were expected to help the team lift their performance at the next V.League season.

 The 10th HCM City Book Expo will open at Le Van Tam Park in District 3 in March.   

A fire that raged yesterday at Trang An Viet Nam Confectionery Joint-stock Company in Bac Son Industrial Zone, Thanh Hoa Province, left at least one person dead.

 The K-Pop trio, Simon Dominic, Gray and Loco, will perform at the New Year Countdown Party Midnight Kiss at the coastal entertainment centre, Coco Bay Da Nang.

 Vietnam’s exports of textile and garment in the last two months of 2017 was estimated at 5.27 billion USD, bringing the total export revenue this year to 31 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 10.23 percent.

 Vietnam Airlines and several other carriers have cancelled or adjusted the schedule of many flights to and from areas to be affected by typhoon Tembin. 

 The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Corporation (Vinacomin) set a goal of selling about 36 million tonnes of coal in 2018, up 2.5 million tonnes compared to 2017.

 The Republic of Korea’s Jeju Air announced it would open some new routes to several Southeast Asian destinations, including Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang, between December 2017 and February 2018. 

 An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred at about 3pm on December 25 in the Vietnam-Laos border area, according to Nguyen Thai Son, head of the Dien Bien Phu Seismic Observation Station.

 Ho Chi Minh City will host its annual festival to honour ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), which is known as the symbol of feminine beauty in Vietnam, during March 3-25.  

 FLC Group plans to invest 1.5 billion USD in hi-tech agriculture in Vietnam in the 2018-20 period.