VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam picked up two bronze medals at the Asian Continental Chess Championship which closed yesterday in Manila, the Philippines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The second Uni Super Championship Muay Thai Tournament will be held at the Nguyen Du Gymnasium in HCM City on Sunday.

 Christmas trees and colourful decorations have been put up to welcome Christmas and New Year in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-one-year-old Vietnamese student Ola Nguyen has just won the seventh edition of MasterChef Poland.

 Paintings portraying the landscapes of two cities, Hanoi and Kampen, are being shown in an ongoing exhibition entitled Hanoi – Hoang Ha Tung – Kampen in Kampen, Netherlands.

 After three failed attempts to enter the Vietnamese market, Air Asia needs to pour more money into satisfying its desire to conquer this potential market.

 Vietnam may be the next destination of Apple manufacturers if the US government applies the 25 per cent tax rate on its products, which are mainly manufactured in China.

 Vietnam finished second out of 60 countries and territories at the 18th World Pencak Silat Championship, which concluded in Singapore on December 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam won the Thanh Nien Newspaper International U21 Football Tournament yesterday in Hue City.

 Vietnam’s beer production output would be roughly 4.1 billion liters by 2020. The number will rise to 4.6 billion liters by 2025 and 5.5 billion liters by 2035.

Vietnam takes pride as one of the world’s biggest natural rubber exporter, but it still has to spend nearly $1 billion a year to import mostly synthetic rubber products to satisfy domestic production.

Vietnam spends VND600 billion each year to develop technology for agricultural production, of which VND300 billion, or $15 million, is spent on research and development (R&D), or one-tenth of Thailand’s.

VietNamNet Bridge - While an education organization has ranked Vietnam in the seventh position among 21 Asian countries in proficiency of English, some experts call the result ‘flashy’.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the past, Lan kim tuyen as called by Vietnamese, or Anoechilus roxburglihayata, was considered a species of valueless weed. But now, it sells for hundreds of million of dong per kilogram. 

 The fintech sector is forecast to see strong growth and become a major technology trend next year, while at the same time encouraging the growth of other sectors, heard participants at the Vietnam Young Leader Forum 2018 last week.

 The third High-level Dialogue on ASEAN-Italy Economic Relations is scheduled to be held in Hanoi on June 5-6, 2019.

 The recent French festivals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City spread messages of the close-knit friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and France.

 Vietnam’s e-commerce market is predicted to boom in the near future, given that 53 percent of the population uses the internet and nearly 54 million people use smartphones. 

 Vietnam has for the first time become a member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), singing up for a six-year term.

 The oil painting “My teacher” which portrays head coach of the Vietnamese national football team Park Hang-seo will be auctioned at Chon’s Auction House in downtown Hanoi on December 30.