The southern province of Tay Ninh and its Cambodian neighbouring province of Svay Rieng will host the first border friendship exchange between Vietnam and Cambodia on December 28-29.

VOV.VN - The O Dong Mac – Nguyen Khoai flyover at Belt Road No.1 in Hanoi was opened to traffic on December 26, expected to ease traffic jam in the eastern part of the capital city.

Authorities of the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan have devised a range of measures to improve spiritual and material lives of locals from ethnic minority groups, thus narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor as well as between geographic areas.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has lauded millions of people in 110,000 residential areas, religious and mass organisations for their environment protection efforts over the past years. 

The August shooting of two high-level officials in Yen Bai was motivated by personal cause, said the local police on December 26.

A master plan to develop the physical strength and height of Vietnamese people in the 2011-30 period is expected to help improve the quality of human resources for the cause of national modernisation and industrialisation, and gradually enhance the quality and longevity of  the Vietnamese people.

The Prime Minister has agreed to allocate VND165 billion (over US$7.2 million) from the budget reserves fund to eight provinces to help them tackle the consequences of storms and floods from October 13-18. 

VOV.VN - Uzbekistan has decided to unilaterally exempt visa for Vietnamese tourists as from April 1, 2017, according to the Uzbekistan Embassy in Hanoi. 

Two patients died soon after doctors administered anesthesia prior to surgery.

Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO) victims have had their first cultural house for the first time after a ceremony handing the Cultural House of the Rehabilitation and Nursing Centre to AO victims took place on December 26 in Hanoi.

Typhoon Nock-ten has entered the East Sea, becoming tenth storm this waters in 2016, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Major changes in the bus routes from the capital are to go into effect on January 2, said the deputy director of the city’s Transport Department, Ha Huy Quang. The changes are intended to reduce congestion.

Up to 60 Cambodians with diseases related to muscular, skeletal and joint system received free health check-ups and treatment by Vietnamese doctors in Phnom Penh on December 26. 

Vietnam lacks control over non-fired brick quality despite the large number of such bricks produced in the country over the last five year, the Ministry of Construction said.

The Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa has provided prompt assistance for a Vietnamese sailor who was left in Cape Town city by China’s Taiwanese fishing ship.

The Ministry of Health has denied the existence of 10 so-called cancer villages, as their rates of cancer were found to be no higher than the national average. 

VOV.VN -  The Communications and Education sector needs to strengthen the management of press and publications and define the responsibilities of press agencies in preventing “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”. 

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations unveiled on December 26 at a conference in Hanoi that it has generated a record US$300 million in financial assistance in 2016.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City police say they have arrested a Colombian woman for attempting to smuggle 1.6kg of heroin into Vietnam.

A co-operative programme on population and reproductive health was signed last week between the General Office on Population and Family Planning under the Ministry of Health, and DKT International.

VOV.VN - Bui Thanh Son, Head of the Committee on Foreign Non-Government Organisations has praised the significant contributions by non-government organisations (NGOs) in Vietnam to alleviating poverty, dealing with social issues and boosting sustainable development.

Experts debated last week whether the Law on Mineral Resources (LoMR) should be amended, with some arguing that several of its articles are unrealistic.

VOV.VN - Students from the University of Industrial Fine Arts in Hanoi and the University of Architecture in Ho Chi Minh City have received gold awards at the 2016 Asia Young Designer Award Competition.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected the 10 most outstanding events of Vietnam in 2016 as follows: 

Various events highlighting the culture and history of the northern province of Bac Kan will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the province’s establishment. 

Vietnam along with Thailand, China, India and Indonesia, participated in the fifth sea festival 2016 in Cambodia from December 23-25. 

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has six more communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards this year, raising the province’s total to 16 communes.

The O Dong Mac – Nguyen Khoai flyover in the belt road No.1 in the capital city of Hanoi was opened to traffic on December 26, expected to ease traffic jam in the eastern part of the city.

Vietnam’s biggest international airport Tan Son Nhat is no longer able to handle all the pressure from the recent travel boom.

APM Terminals partners up with AIP Foundation to promote road safety in Vietnam by sponsoring the education of road users and pedestrians in the community around Cai Mep International Terminal.