VietNamNet Bridge - 100 percent foreign-owned filling stations and the sale of a stake in petroleum companies by the state have not been enough to create a competitive petroleum market.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc led a Vietnamese delegation to the 9th Mekong-Japan Summit and the 9th ASEAN-UN Summit that took place in Manila, the Philippines, on November 13.

 Ho Chi Minh City authorities are relocating residents in deteriorating buildings built before 1975 to nearly 200 new apartments in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shortage of space has been identified as the main hurdle to the development of HCM City’s bus services and lack of adequate bus stations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new exhibition at the Ha Noi Museum features work by two painters whose contrasting themes and styles portray the world’s diversity.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Since 2012, over 12,000 households in the northern mountain province of Son La have been plagued by water pollution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of reservoirs across the country are at risk of breaching as they reach full capacity after heavy rainfall in recent weeks, 

 The second runner up of the Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2013, Nguyen Thi Loan has just left for the 2017 Miss Universe Pageant which will take place in in Las Vegas, United States later this month.

 Vietnam's representative Do My Linh has been named in the top 20 of the Beauty with A Purpose Competition at the Miss World 2017.

 Rubbish is flooding Ha Long City's streets because of a price dispute with a waste treatment company.

 Several Vietnamese education experts have expressed concern over the Ministry of Education and Training’s VND12 trillion (USD545.4 million) project to train around 9,000 PhDs by 2025.

 APEC Year 2017, with the freshly-concluded APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city the highlight, was comprehensively successful, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh told the media on November 13.

 Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has proposed to increase investment for the Ben Thanh-Tham Luong metro project and delay its completion date to 2024.

 Vietnam-Korea Business Partnership 2017 program hears of growing interest among South Korean business in M&As in Vietnam.

 Average salaries at Phu Quoc Special Economic Zone would be USD13,500 to USD28,600 by 2030 compared to the current USD2,200 in Vietnam according to Secretary of the Party Committee of Kien Giang Province, Nguyen Thanh Nghi.

 A programme will be held from November 17 to 26 in the Hanoi Old Quarter to honour the capital city’s cultural heritages.

 The national one stop shop (OSS) mechanism offering airline services will be implemented at all international airports across Vietnam from November 15, the General Department of Customs has announced.

 VietJet Aviation JSC plans to expand its fleet to include wide-body jets as the Vietnamese low-cost carrier considers California as its first U.S. destination starting in the next two years. 

 Lobster farmers in Phu Yen Province are in need of new loans to continue their business after most of their farms were damaged in Storm Damrey.

 APEC 2017 that took place from November 6 -11 in the central city of Da Nang is considered an ideal occasion for Vietnam to intensify tourism dissemination, contributing to attracting more foreign visitors to the country. 

 Credit growth in the 10 months through October reached 13.5 per cent, the National Financial Supervisory Commission said in a latest report.

NA deputies on Monday discussed the feasibility of land clearance and resettlement to build the Long Thanh International Airport mega project in southern Dong Nai Province. 

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued Decision No 4236 / QD-BCT to extend the deadline for investigating cases of applying safeguard measures for DAP and MAP fertilisers imported into Viet Nam before issuing the final report.

 Lam Dong Province’s Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on Sunday introduced its new tourism code of conduct.

 The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will hold the “A Night of Concertos” concert at the Opera House this week, featuring Japanese and Vietnamese soloists.