The Government has promulgated a Resolution underlining key measures to realise the socio-economic development plan and State budget estimates in 2016.

 Two Vietnamese judokas left for Tunisia yesterday to compete in the judo Olympic qualifiers from January 12-18.

 Vietnam's top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam jumped one spot to 912th in the latest ATP rankings announced on January 11.

 Hospital rankings will be publicised for the first time this year in an effort by the Ministry of Health to improve healthcare services, the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 Dozens of HCM City police officers were mobilised to capture drug trafficking ringleader Ngoc Em, 50, in Nguyen Thuong Hien Street's Alley 183 in Binh Thanh District yesterday afternoon.

 Japan’s biggest air transport group All Nippon Airways (ANA) is set to become National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines’s strategic partner after buying 8.8% of VNA, according to an announcement by VNA on January 12.

VietNamNet Bridge – Boredpanda – a leading art, design and photography community website in Europe- has published beautiful photos of nature landscapes and people in Vietnam’s northern mountain town of Sapa,

Striker Nguyen Cong Phuong has been listed alongside Mustafa Amini of U23 Australia and Chanathip Songkrasin from Thailand in the top 16 goal-scorers at the final round of the 2016 Asian U23 Football Championship.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the northern province of Hoa Binh, visitors can drop by Chi Ne Town in Lac Thuy District to take a look at the first money factory of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This unique kumquat garden has an area of about 600m2 with over 300 bonsai kumquat trees in the shapes of a dragon, unicorn, phoenix and turtle.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A local company has successfully produced fireproof, bulletproof paint made from rice husks, with the price one third of foreign products of the same kind.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Visitors to the Museum of Cham Sculpture can view three national treasures that are stored and exhibited in the museum of more than 100 years old located in the heart of Da Nang city.

Head of the Vietnam Food Administration Nguyen Thanh Phong yesterday said that the news of Vietnamese-made disposable chopsticks containing cancer-causing substance was not official; accordingly the department could not reach any conclusion.

A group of researchers of the Hue Royal Traditional Art Theater has completed a scientific report on restoring the Phu luc dich (Phu luc for the flute), one of the Royal Court popular songs, according to the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.

  The Hanoi People’s Court has accepted a request made by Realogy Group LLC, for Minh Viet Investment JSC to fulfil its obligation to Realogy in accordance with a foreign arbitral award judgement.

 Tran Thi Doan Trang won the first national motor race for women, which took place at Binh Phuoc Province Stadium on January 10.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though e-commerce is a promising industry in Vietnam, investors still hesitate to inject money into the field as they know e-commerce will need large startup costs.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications and South Korea's Korea Communications Commission (KCC) agreed to co-operate in-depth in the television field in Ha Noi last Friday.

 The Israeli Embassy in Vietnam will host a week of Vietnamese and Israeli cuisine from January 18 to 24, offering chances for food connoisseurs to figure out similarities in the countries’ cooking styles.

 The agricultural sector plans to slash rice cultivation by 100,000 hectares in 2016 to grow other grains used to feed animals, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat.