Nokia will be launching new products in Vietnam without announcing exact kinds of feature and smartphone products.

 The conglomerate VinGroup will sell its entire ownership in the logistics service firm Phat Loc Express and Trading JSC (Phat Loc Express), VinGroup said in a statement.

 The International U21 Football Tournament is scheduled to kick off on December 18 in HCM City’s Thong Nhat Stadium.

 While he might be young, Vietnamese-American piano child prodigy Evan Le, aged five, has already been stunning audiences everywhere he goes with his amazing otherworldly talent.

 The Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange has announced it will present its 13th annual Christmas Concert on December 16 in the courtyard of its facilities at 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.

 Foreign investors have keens eyes on hydropower projects, which account for a large proportion of Vietnam’s power output to meet the rising demand.

 Vietnam’s national men’s football team was knocked out of the Southeast Asian Football Championship after the 2-2 second-leg draw at My Dinh Stadium on December 7. 

 The numbers of delayed and cancelled flights of domestic carriers were 36,844 and 1,605, accounting for 16.1 percent and 0.7 percent of the total flights, up 0.6 point and 0.2 point, respectively from the same period last year.

 Moody’s has forecast that the Vietnamese banking system will remain stable in the next 12-18 months, reflecting its expectation that the country’s macroeconomic stability will support the banks’ weak credit profiles.

  A workshop on the East Sea issue held in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6 issued a statement welcoming the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the waters.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Quang Ninh People’s Committee has decided to fund the Van Don – Mong Cai Highway and has chosen a Vietnamese contractor, instead of seeking a loan from China as initially planned.

 The Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre on December 7 and France’s Embassy in Vietnam organised a workshop exchanging experience on the sending of a sapper unit to the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions.

 There is plenty of room for Vietnam and India to deepen bilateral defence cooperation based on their comprehensive strategic partnership.

 Vietnam welcomes investors from Russia and Kursk province in particular and will provide them with all possible support, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh told Kursk Governor Alexander Mikhailov during a reception in Hanoi on December 7. 

National Assembly Vice Chairman Do Ba Ty has met with senior officials of Canada’s parliament and government, voicing his hope for enhanced substantive cooperation between the Vietnamese and Canadian parliaments.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Government is taking drastic measures in restructuring agricultural production to adapt to climate change, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development  Nguyen Xuan  Cuong said yesterday.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has suggested the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Laos News Agency (KPL) continue maintaining cooperation to meet communication requirements in each country in the new situation. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – “What should I study to get a job with a starting salary of $2,000 a month?”

iPhone models have seen prices decreasing significantly in Vietnam despite the rumor that iPhones would be more expensive once US President-elect Trump takes office and tries to encourage Apple to start manufacturing products in the US.

 Only one per cent of total enterprises in Viet Nam have invested in agriculture, and 55 per cent of these are small scale, capitalised at under VND5 billion, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.