Many writers might give their right arm to be paid almost $1 million to deliver a lecture. But Bob Dylan's silence since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature might mean he never sees the award money.

The HCMC People’s Committee has allowed Japanese Sekisui Company to build a water containing reservoir with polypropylene material which aims to ease flooding during heavy rain and high tide. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The 4G market has been activated with licenses having been granted to Viettel and VNPT, with more newcomers on the way. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Students from the first to the fifth grades of some primary schools in HCMC have a new extracurricular subject – Scientific Experiments for Fun. The new learning subject has raised controversy.

 Corruption remains complex and widespread and yet to be repulsed, says a Government report submitted to the National Assembly (NA).

 Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) on October 24 secured approval to sell non-convertible bonds worth VND2 trillion (US$89.3 million) at par value.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Lap melaleuca forest is situated in Moc Hoa District of the southern Long An Province, about 100 km from HCM City.

Foreign shipping lines will have to publicise charges, surcharges of freight services, and charges for port services for containerised goods, as the draft decree on the issue has been submitted to the Vietnamese government for approval.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the occasion of the 29th National Diplomatic Conference which took place in Hanoi last week, VietNamNet talked with Mr. Tran Viet Thai, Deputy Director of the Strategic Research Institute of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. 

The Ministry of Construction is seeking strategic investors in the Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation, the Housing and Urban Development Corporation, the Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation, and the Song Da Corporation.

 The Ministry of Science and Technology has ordered an investigation into chaotic scenes where staff and members of the public were recorded taking away fake fashion products which were earmarked for destruction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan for solid waste management in key economic zones in the north until 2030.

 Vietnamese contestant Nam Em won a gold medal for the Online Photogenic competition of the Miss Earth 2016 pageant yesterday. The representatives of Myanmar and Venezuela won a silver and a bronze medal.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Thi Ngoc Duyen, a model from Vietnam has become the winner of the Miss Global Beauty Queen 2016 pageant held in the Republic of Korea.

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 Vietnamese director Dang Nhat Minh is one of three global filmmakers to be honoured at the 36th Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM), taking place from November 11 to 19 in Amiens, France.

 The Government will consider the possibility of letting poor performing commercial banks go bankrupt, instead of  them as it did in the past, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has said.

Viet Nam's coal sector is facing decreasing exports and competition from imported coal, Nguyen Khac Tho, deputy director of the General Directorate of Energy under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien sent a letter of congratulations to the U19 players and coaching board yesterday.

 More than 400 drug addicts have returned to the rehabilitation centre where they were receiving treatment one day after breaking out of the facility on October 23.

 The expansion of the Vietnam-China Land Border Joint Committee cooperation mechanism has improved immigration and export-import management, contributing to socio-economic development in border localities. 

 Vietnam and Nepal have a fruitful relationship with potential for development. 

 The People’s Committee of the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on October 24 hosted a reception for the crew of three Chinese naval ships which have been on a visit at Cam Ranh International Port since October 22. 

 Building just a third of planned new coal-fired power plants around the world would push hundreds of millions of people into poverty as it accelerates climate change past an agreed limit of 2 degrees Celsius of warming,

VietNamNet Bridge - The robust development of high-rise office and apartment buildings has changed the face of Hanoi.