Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently agreed to raise the charter capital of the military-run Viettel Group from VND100 trillion (US$4.4 billion) to VND300 trillion (US$13.2 billion) in the 2015-2020 period.

  The following is brief introduction of a series of policies involving foreigners that have come into effect in 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Hong Nam, Deputy Foreign Minister and Chairman of the National Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, spoke to Dai Doan Ket (Great National Unity) newspaper about the role of Overseas Vietnamese.

 Traditional music performance to welcome New Year, Toyota grants VN music scholarships, Mother Goddess lives on in Nam Dinh

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sixteen cities and provinces across Viet Nam will start issuing new ID cards from January 1, 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi Police have arrested eight people in a petrol fraud investigation.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said that the equitisation of MobiFone, one of the three leading mobile service providers in Vietnam, can collect about VND20,000 billion (nearly $1 billion) for the State budget.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The parade on National Day (September 2), the fireworks to celebrate 40 years of Saigon’s liberation, and the cutting of old trees along Nguyen Chi Thanh Road in Hanoi are among memorable images in Vietnam 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Promotion Fund for Vietnamese Football Talents (PVF) has completed negotiating the final article in their contract to cooperate with Japanese Gamba Osaka FC in a youth training programme.

Anxious parents made thousands of calls to 1080 in HCM City yesterday morning to register for getting the five-in-one Pentaxim vaccine for their children, but with each public health facility only geared to take in a limited number daily,

VietNamNet Bridge - Businesses in Vietnam now tend to spend big money on media campaigns to polish their images, something they would not do in the past.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 29 announced the top 10 culture, sports and tourism events in 2015, which were voted by 121 journalists representing media agencies across the country.

 Beautiful natural landscapes and people of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are depicted in the works of Vietnamese painters Nguyen Van Cuong, Le Van Thin, and Doan Hong.

 Vietnam's initial public offering (IPO) activity has been less than exciting in 2015 and that has been attributed to the lack of blockbuster deals.

  The Samsung group will add 600 million USD to the 1.4-billion-USD Samsung HCMC CE Complex (SEHC) at Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP).

A 15-minute fireworks display lit up the sixth biannual Da Lat Flower Festival's opening ceremony held last night in Da Lat City's Lam Vien (Langbiang) Square.

VietNamNet Bridge - Rivers have been overexploited, causing tremendous pressure on the livelihoods and water sources of the communities living on the riverbanks.

Analysts have warned that the kieu hoi flow (overseas remittance) to Vietnam would slow, while Vietnamese may deposit dollars at Laos banks instead of Vietnamese as a result of the State Bank’s zero-percent interest rate policy.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities are willing to spend trillions of dong to build imposing monuments, but are hesitant to spend money for nursery schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vaccines outside the free immunisation programme so far will only be able to meet four per cent of the demand in the upcoming year, according to the Ministry of Health.