Rescue forces are searching for 15 fishermen missing from five fishing boats that sank off the coast of the central province of Thanh Hoa.

 GrabBike drivers in Ho Chi Minh City on January 10 gathered at the company's headquarters in District 10 to protest against a new hike in revenue share.

 Dozens of villas and bungalows in The Song Resort project have been built without licences along Danang beach.

 As the temperature dropped to under 6 degrees Celsius, public schools in mountainous districts of Lao Cai province closed on January 10-11, and nearly 30,000 pupils stayed at home.

 The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up its 20th session in Hanoi on January 11 after spending one and a half days discussing three draft laws, one draft resolution and some other issues.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two children in central Ha Tinh Province were hospitalised on Wednesday after a bullet they were playing with exploded.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A strange skin disease has claimed the life of a student in Ba To District, central province of Quang Ngai, according to the provincial Health Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi is currently witnessing the massive annual influx of migrant manual workers. Seeking jobs that no city people are willing to do, they need to earn extra money to prepare for Tet 

 VietNamNet Bridge – STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is an interdisciplinary and applied approach being used at HCM City schools with effective results.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Artists from the Viet Nam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) will perform classical and contemporary works at Ha Noi Opera House on January 18.

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 Vietnam’s top-three pharmaceutical firms will give priority to the research of new drugs this year to increase competitiveness amid stiffening competition from multinational corporations and new domestic rivals.

 Foreign investors will be permitted to establish their wholly foreign-owned companies providing logistics services, following Decree No.163/ND-CP, which will come into effect on February 20.

 A new wave of private agricultural investments has surged in the country, helping to super-charge the capital-poor agricultural sector.

 In a bid to more effectively control state capital in enterprises, the government will establish an official committee dedicated to manage it in the first quarter of 2018.

The management board of the Con Dao National Park has sent a dossier to the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment, asking for the recognition of its three ancient trees as Vietnam heritage trees. 

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Pham Quang Vinh held a meeting on January 10 with US Congressman Paul Gosar who affirmed that Arizona State is willing to boost cooperation with Vietnamese localities in all fields.

If applying the personal income tax (PIT) rates introduced to the public last August, the state budget revenue would lose VND3.1 trillion a year. 

 Contracted Uber and Grab cars are not allowed to run across 13 streets in the capital city during rush hours, 6 – 9 am and 4:30 – 7:30 pm, starting January 11.

 Hanoi sets a target of developing additional 11 million sq.m of housing in 2018, including 430,000 sq.m of social housing, nearly 348,000 sq.m of resettlement housing and more than 2.1 million sq.m of commercial housing.