VietNamNet Bridge - The real estate market showed clear signs of recovery, which helped boost sales and real estate credit.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On New Year 2016, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh reviewed achievements of the country’s diplomacy over the past five years.

  Crucial steps have been made, paving the way for Russia to construct Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power Plant, worth over $10 billion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietinbank and PG Bank did not finalise procedures to merge in 2015 as planned, according to Vietinbank's chairman Nguyen Van Thang.

 More than 220 people died or went missing, while damage totaled 660 million USD a year due to unseasonal rains, landslides, erosion, whirlwinds and lightning between 2011 and 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prof. Dr. Do Ngoc Thong, vice head of the compiling board for general school curriculum, talks with Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper about the new curriculum of general education for the 2018-2019 school year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Household waste dumped by fisherman is polluting many small islands and beaches located on Con Dao District of the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Microsoft Mobile Vietnam LLC, formerly Nokia Vietnam, recently paid all of its tax arrears incurred in 2013 and 2014, according to newswire baohaiquan.vn, effectively refusing possible tax incentives offered to high-tech companies.

 A lomography exhibition themed ‘No to Sorrow’ taken by photographer Maika Elan is set to get underway at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi from January 14 to 28.

 Duong Thi Hong, deputy director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, talks about the success of the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation since its launch in 1985.

On January 11, Vietnam Motors Industry Corporation (Vinamotor), Vietnam’s biggest bus manufacturer, will conduct an auction to sell 85.6 million state-owned shares, equalling a 97.7% its total stakes.

 A Vietnam Airlines aircraft from the central Da Nang City to Ha Noi landed safely at Noi Bai International Airport this morning, following an alert over reduced tyre pressure.

 Famous magazine Missosology has selected Miss Vietnam Thuy Van, Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach and Miss Indonesia Maria Harfanti in the Best of 2015, Quotable Quotes category.

 Vietnam jumped a place from December 2015 to 146th in the FIFA rankings issued for January 2016.

 The Ministry of Transport held a ceremony to inaugurate the Trung Hoa and Thanh Xuan road tunnels, which cost a combined 1.64 trillion VND (73.1 million USD) on January 8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Faros Golf Tournament will present a huge bonus of VND25 billion (US$1.1 million) to the winners during its two-day event at the FLC Samson Golf Links course in Thanh Hoa Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi FC have successfully signed two contracts with defenders Nguyen Nam Anh and Nguyen Van Dung from Ha Noi T&T.

 China’s landing of two civilian planes on an illegally-built runway in the Chu Thap (Fiery Cross) reef, in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on January 6, has sparked protests in the region, and the world.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to the US, Pham Quang Vinh, chaired the regular meeting of the ASEAN Washington Committee (AWC) on January 7, the first meeting since Vietnam assumed the chair of AWC from January to April.

 A lychee tree in northern Hai Duong province has recently broken the record to become the oldest of its species in Vietnam.