The central province of Quang Tri’s People’s Committee held a ceremony on January 15 to announce and hand over the Prime Minister’s decision that approves the construction of My Thuy port. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed that the Vietnamese Government will continue to always create favourable conditions for foreign firms to do business in Vietnam, including those from Japan. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to increase Vietnam’s rankings in information and communication technology (ICT) as ICT is the foundation of all areas, including the digital economy.

 A walk along Huong river was inaugurated and put into use in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on January 15. 

 Vietnam has called for help from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia to search for 10 fishermen who have been missing since December 2018.

Urbanization has gradually increased its pressure on agriculture land of HCMC year by year. 

 Vietnamese surgeons of the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi had performed an operation on a Japanese 62-year-old engineer to remove a 4x5 tumor in his rectum, said the hospital yesterday.

 Surgeons reattach scalp of a woman whose whole scalp was peeled in an awful labor accident.

 To minimize the import of plastic waste as well as upgrade the ability to treat domestic one, the Vietnamese government has asked businesses to invest into advanced technology for plastic waste recycling.

 Friendly, fun-loving and optimistic pigs are chosen as the sacred animals of Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2019. According to Vietnamese Horoscope calendar, 2019 is the Year of the Pig.

 Although the Housing Law permits foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam but there has been no instructions to implement the law. 

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The requested all citizens and contractors to call the Ministry’s hotline 024.39413313 or leaders of the Ministry’s anti-corruption department when discovering corrupt public sector employees.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Railway (VNR) aims to accelerate its growth to a rate of 8 per cent in 2019 after suffering depression from 2015 to 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Universities need to train nearly 15,000 navigating officers and other shipping personnel by 2020 to address a shortage of human resources in the maritime industry, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Works by Vietnamese poet Mai Van Phan have been published in a collection with South Korean writer Ko Hyung Ryul.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten talented artists in film, music and theatre have been honoured at the 24th annual Mai Vang (Golden Ochna) Awards ceremony at the HCM City Opera House.

 Hanoi is coated in a thick blanket of fog due to a mix of light rain and humidity these days. Even until afternoon, the fog does not disperse. This weather brings about a different appearance for Hanoi.

A festival featuring the traditional New Year celebration of the H’Mong ethnic group was held at the Hanoi University of Culture on January 13.

The strong rise of Vietnamese-made smartphones is expected to slow the massive influx of Chinese imports.

 Nearly 80 leading scientists in applied physics and materials science from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are gathering at the Vietnam – RoK International Symposium on Applied Physics (V-KISAP) 2019.