The annual “Xuan Que Huong” (Homeland Spring) programme will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20 with a variety of cultural activities to welcome overseas Vietnamese (OVs) back for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

 The following are Vietnam's top 10 sports events of 2016.

  Erosion is threatening residential areas and shrimp farming land in coastal areas of Go Cong and Tan Phu Dong districts in the southern Tien Giang Province.

 The US continued topping the list of 200 countries and territories importing Vietnamese goods in 2016, with a total import value of over 34.8 billion USD, according to the Government’s portal.

 Vietnamese shares may advance in 2017, analysts say, cautioning that market conditions can get volatile with international events of 2016 continuing to exert unpredictable impacts on Vietnam.

 HCM City hopes to incorporate 50,000 new companies this year (2017) so that there are 500,000 operational ones by 2020, Chairman of the city People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.

 Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) rose by 7.5 percent this year, much lower than the 9.8 percent growth seen in 2015.

 Vietnam’s index of industrial production (IIP) rose by 7.5 percent this year, much lower than the 9.8 percent growth seen in 2015.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has reaffirmed its determination to pursue a proactive and flexible monetary policy in 2017.

 Vietnam gained trade surplus of 2.68 billion USD in 2016, the General Department of Customs reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will undertake 80 traffic projects in 2017 at a cost of VND39 trillion (US$1.7 billion),

 Several travel companies in HCM City have said that their rivals manipulated contact information on Google Maps in an alleged tactic to steal clients, with contact numbers deliberately changed as an act of business sabotage.

Over $2.81 billion was spent on the upgrading and construction of transport infrastructure in the Central Highlands over the last five years, significantly contributing to the local socio-economic development.

 During the three-day calendar New Year 2017 holiday, the country saw 93 traffic accidents which killed 79 people and injured 54 others, according to the Traffic Police Department.

 Vietnam had 8,978 communes and 79,899 hamlets as of July 1, 2016, representing decreases of 93 and 1,005 respectively from five years ago, according to the preliminary outcomes of the latest rural, agricultural and fisheries survey.

 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) wants to boost affiliation between its youth division and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, said Suzuki Keisuke, Director of the LDP’s Youth Division.

 The Embassy of Vietnam in India held a ceremony in New Delhi on January 1 to mark the fifth anniversary of Vietnam – Bhutan diplomatic ties (January 19, 2012-2017).

VietNamNet Bridge - The best moneymakers in Vietnam saw their assets in business and investment activities in 2016 increase to very high levels.

VietNamNet Bridge - The dong/dollar exchange rate remained stable for most of 2016 thanks to important government and State Bank policies, and resources of the national economy.

The Central Highlands province of Daklak, the nation’s biggest coffee growing area, will launch a tour program in which guests can visit coffee processing facilities and gain hands-on knowledge of the cultural space of Gong