Ho Chi Minh City is facing numerous difficulties as the population is rising sharply.

 FPT Digital Retail Joint Stock Company is planning its initial public offering (IPO) on December 15 and seeking to debut its shares on the HCM Stock Exchange prior to April next year.

 The credit growth in November rose 2.8 per cent against the previous month, pushing the total rise in the 11 months of this year to 15.3 per cent.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to remove 21 conditional business sectors, including rice export, logistics and debt trading service.

 Hanoi plans to construct a super satellite city by 2030, with a total area of over 17,270ha located in two districts of Thach That and Quoc Oai and Son Tay Town.

 The Hanoi's Department of Transport has banned taxis from operating on 13 streets to reduce traffic jams during rush hours.

 Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee, Nguyen Duc Chung, has tasked the city’s inspectorate with investigating the paving of sidewalks throughout districts in the city and asked for results by the end of this month.

 The central province of Quang Nam’s first-ever Korean Day Festival and Korean Film Week will take place from December 11 to 17 in Tam Ky city to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea.

 The high rainfall has caused serious flooding, unexpected landslide and reservoir unsafety in the provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen in recent days. 

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the fourth industrial revolution presents the opportunity for the country to realise its dream of prosperity when addressing an international exhibition on Smart Industry World 2017 in Hanoi today.

 Students of English at the HCMC Open University will perform dramas in English adapted from American literary works at the HCMC Drama Theater in downtown HCMC on December 9, 15, 16 and 23.

 Artists from the central city of Da Nang will display 60 of their paintings, sculptures, and lacquer, oil and canvas, and water colour paintings in an exhibition at the city’s Fine Arts Museum from December 6-12.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has described high-level meetings between army leaders of Vietnam and the EU as an important channel to increase their mutual understanding.

 Vietnamese lifter Le Van Cong on December 4 made a new world’s record in the men’s 49kg at the ongoing World Para Weightlifting Championships 2017 in Mexico City.

 Numerous financial institutions such as Eximbank, Vietbank, CB Bank, Oceanbank, and GP Bank have failed in scraping away their million-dollar accumulated losses despite their ever-growing profitability over the past first three quarters of 2017.

 Ambassador of New Zealand to Vietnam Wendy Matthews on December 4 inspected the English training course provided by New Zealand for staff of Vietnam’s level-2 field hospital No.1 at the Military Hospital 175 in Hanoi.

“The unique colours of Khmer culture are part of the rich variety among the 54 nationalities who live in Vietnam,” Dang Hung, head of the Bac Lieu Province’s Union of Associations for Literature and Arts,

Large companies considered leaders in their fields are being sought after by buyers, mostly from Asia.

 Dieu Thuy left Ho Chi Minh City for China on December 3 to vie for the title of Miss Tourism Queen of the Year International 2017.

Vu Binh Minh has been triumphantly crowned Miss Vietnam Global Business 2017 in the grand finale of the pageant in Taiwan.