Fish noodle soup, goby fish hot pot and noodles and fried tofu are attractive dishes that make Hoang Cau Street in Hanoi always crowded with customers.

The 10 richest women on the stock market have total assets worth VND19.301 trillion, accounting for 11.5% of total assets of the 500 richest Vietnamese billionaires.

Vietnam in 2016 saw a high farm produce trade surplus of US$7.6 billion, but big difficulties are still ahead, including returning protectionism with Brexit and US President-elect Donald Trump.

Thai sweet soup in Nam Dong market, pillow-shaped cakes, and steamed meat rice cakes in Nghia Tan market are well-known dishes of each residential area.

Many technology startups that called for capital in 2016 are expected to be even more successful in 2017.

In Hue, the old capital of Vietnam, the Temple of Literature (so-called Van Mieu Hue or Van Thanh) majestically lies on the bank of Perfume River, to the west of the Citadel, just 1km from prestigious Linh Mu pagoda.

The 2016 list of stock billionaires showed big changes compared with the 2015 list. Many new faces are on the list, while Pham Nhat Vuong, who topped the 2015 list, fell to number two.

Agoda.com, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Expedia.com and similar websites are believed to be pocketing trillions of dong from doing business in Vietnam, but they have not paid any dong in tax. 

In first quarter of 2017, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will send staff to Vietnam to assess Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam’s (CAAV) safety supervision capability in preparation for Vietnamese air carriers to open direct air routes to the US,with no transit in third countries.

The modest investment in railways in the last 100 years, as well as high management costs and ticket prices have pushed the railway sector into an impasse.