Ireland will work to push the Vietnam-European Union free trade agreement, the Irish Ambassador to Vietnam, Caist Moran, told Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a meeting on December 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  Many streets and buildings in HCM City have been decorated beautifully for the Christmas and New Year's season, attracting many people at night.

 Looking back at the success we have achieved after 30 years of renovation, it is not difficult to see the lesson about the power of consensus, seizing and taking advantage of opportunities that we learned from the August Revolution.

Multiple issues are plaguing dredging projects on the Dong Nai River. Slack licensing, negligent supervision, lack of co-ordination among exploiters and sand mining pirates freely roaming without much hinder were leading to environmental damage

VietNamNet Bridge – For more than 25 years, Phung Quang Oanh, 46, from District 7, HCM City has created tens of thousands of puppets for water puppet troupes throughout the country. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many managers of state-owned corporations have gone abroad recently for health care or training courses. Some of them have lost contact with their enterprises. 

 A farmer in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has succeeded in training his snakeheads to jump high out of water. His fish have attracted many visitors.

VietNamNet Bridge – In 2016, despite facing numerous difficulties and challenges, particularly in relation to the serious marine environmental pollution incident which affected four central provinces ...

 The overall growth of Vietnam’s telecom market will start to decline following a period of rapid development, according to “The Emerging Asia-Pacific telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2016-2021” released by The Report Linker.

VietNamNet Bridge - To deal with the unprofitable Dung Quat shipyard, MOIT believes that declaring  bankruptcy is the most feasible solution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Confectionary markets in Da Nang have recently welcomed a new product: organic candy “Pop” made by Vietnamese materials with Spanish secrets.

 Unemployment may rise because of the high numbers of unskilled workers and increased industrial automation.

 Sun Group, Vingroup and the Hanoi Export-Import Company (Geleximco) will provide the finance for Hanoi to prepare a master plan for the Red River renovation project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Yasushi Ogura is not a businessman, but this long-term visitor to Viet Nam invested his money to help a farming couple open a coffee shop in the northernmost part of the country.

 The continual erosion of forested land by local people has narrowed the living space for elephants in Dong Nai Province, leading to more conflict. In addition, the province’s elephant conservation project has still proceeded at a very slow pace.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 5,000 households that live along or on the south bank of the Doi Canal in HCM City’s District 8 will be relocated in 2018.

 Viet Nam is likely to miss an export growth target of 10 per cent that the National Assembly set for 2016, official data has suggested.

VietNamNet Bridge – Although the way Vietnamese celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival has changed, they still maintain the tradition of preparing offerings for ancestor worship and buying new domestic utensils well ahead of time. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – If you glance through the website tramdoc.vn you will find a lot of articles that attract thousands of views and hundreds of “likes” from readers…

 VietNamNet Bridge – Beating an obsession with online games takes time, patience and, most importantly, loving and understanding teachers.