More than 106,300 new ".vn" domain names were registered in the first 11 months of this year, bringing the total number of ".vn" domain names to 343, 370, a year-on-year increase of 16.4%, according to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC).

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade has chosen Hoc Mon Wholesale Market and Ben Thanh Market to implement a pilot food-safety market model, according to a report in Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Farmers and artisans in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta are busy creating "strange" and "unique" fruits for Tet (Lunar New Year), which falls in early February next year.

Credit this year could reach roughly 18%, meeting the capital demands of the economy, deputy director of the State Bank of Vietnam's Monetary Policy Department Nguyen Duc Long said.

Four boxes of remains thought to be of US servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam were handed over to a US agency at a repatriation ceremony on December 12 at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport.

Vietnam won 10 gold medals at the Aerobic Gymnastics Asian Championships, which wrapped up in HCM City on December 13.

The domestic forestry sector expects to reach a total export value of wood and forestry products at US$9.5 billion in 2020, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Young entrepreneurs in ASEAN countries should ensure environmental sustainability while doing business, the secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has said.

Former general director of a leasing company Vu Quoc Hao was sentenced to 18 years in prison on December 10, leaving him with two death penalties and nearly half a century to spend behind bars from previous convictions.

Located on former Ho Chi Minh Trail track in Nghia Dan District in the central province of Nghe An, the Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk sunflower field has become popular among young people seeking a stunning landscape since 2010.