VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has recently been suffering from constant traffic jams even during non-peak hours. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The Southern economic hub is rushing to realise its traffic infrastructure plan in which nearly 700km of expressway is expected to be built over the next five years. 

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has come up with an idea of moving overnight aircraft parking from overcrowded Tan Son Nhat airport in HCMC to the Can Tho airport in the Mekong Delta city of the same name. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pay TV services firms in Vietnam have had around 12.5 million subscribers this year, with total revenue amounting to VND12 trillion (nearly US$527.3 million),

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of shopping malls have shut down though it is now the peak sales season. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Well-known Vietnamese conductor Le Phi Phi will be conducting a concert called “Dancing with Classical” at the Opera House in HCMC’s District1 on the evening of December 29.

 Tropical storm Nock-ten has weakened into a tropical low-pressure system this morning when it passed through the northern part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago.

 An 87th minute header by Keitaishii gave Yokohama the goal it needed to beat Thailand and win the Thanh Nien U21 Cup in HCM City yesterday.

 A 21-year-old Colombian woman was caught at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport with 1.6 kilogrammes of cocaine last Sunday night.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pak Viet Nam Company from the southern province of Dong Nai has been caught red-handed discharging black substance – suspected to be wastewater – into Thi Vai river.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fire broke out in two houses in two different parts of Ha Noi today. No injuries were reported.

 Ly Hoang Nam and teammate Kittiphong of Thailand have defeated the Russian duo of Aleksandr - Maksim in the first round of the men’s doubles at the Thailand F6 Futures tournament.

 Continuing an annual tradition, the University of Science and Technology will hold a Japanese New Year’s Day Celebration – Oshogatsu – on January 8, 2017 at its campus in Hanoi.

The lack of soft skills is making Vietnamese workers less competitive in the international integration process, heard a recent conference on the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on local students and young laborers.

  Typhoon Nock-ten, the 10th storm to hit the East Sea in 2016, will gradually abate in the next 12 hours, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

 The lack of knowledge about organ donation is one of the main reasons leading to the shortage of organ donation sources, according to medical experts.

The new joint United Kingdom and Australia Visa Application Centre has been inaugurated in the central city to help those in central Vietnam apply for UK and Australian visas.

 Police in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City have arrested two women and a man for allegedly trafficking women to China.

 One of the solutions to prevent sexual harassment at school is to equip students with the necessary skills to identify signs of sexual abuse so that they are able to protect themselves, heard a workshop in Hanoi on December 27.

 Senior officials from six countries along the Mekong River have vowed to strengthen law enforcement and security cooperation.