If HCM City wants to offer its residents quality living, the most important thing is to improve its environmental quality, a city leader told a meeting held recently to discuss how to deal with polluting companies.

 Apple Inc won a deal with pop star Taylor Swift to exclusively release a concert video of her recent world tour through its music streaming service, Apple Music, the company and singer said on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - International travelers explore the countryside by bike or do farm work such as ploughing and riding a buffalo.

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition opened last night featuring new works by Gabby Miller, as part of the Queer Forever!2015 festival being held in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The fifth national stamp exhibition (VietStampex 2015) kicked off in Hanoi on December 11 with 138 sets of stamps on display, including many rare collections.

Both official and alternate members of the 11th Central Party Committee will recommend members of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the 11th term who are qualified for the candidacy of the four key positions.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nearly two months before the Lunar New Year (Tet), many kumquats and peach trees have blossomed in Hanoi’s most famous flower garden of Nhat Tan, due to abnormal weather.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People in the communes of Que An and Que Tho of Hiep Duc district in Quang Nam province on December 10 caught a python 5m long and nearly 30kg in weight after it had just swallowed a calf.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Ha Dong, the creator of Flappy Bird, who earned big money with the game, has declared his income to pay the corporate income tax of VND1.4 billion.  

 Research on epic of Thai ethnic group wins Folklore Arts Awards, Cultural exchange celebrates Vietnam – RoK relations, Feedback sought on designs for Hoang Sa soldiers’ memorial site, Hang Da Galleria hosts photography fair

 VietNamNet Bridge – V. League 1 team Thanh Hoa have signed National U23 goalkeeper Nguyen Thanh Tuan on a one year loan deal at the weekend from the PVF football training centre.

 VietNamNet Bridge – White sand, beautiful cliffs and colourful tropical coral make Khem beach on Phu Quoc Island become a must-go destination for every tourist.

VietNamNet Bridge – New York-based Business Insider has announced world’s top 22 best small towns to visit in one’s lifetime, including Hoi An Ancient Town which has a population of roughly 65,000 or fewer. 

 A dispute has been identified as the main cause of Trung Nguyen Corporation’s recent supply interruption of G7 3-in-1 instant coffee on the domestic market.

 Kien Giang authorities have urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Navy to stop the export of sand mined by dredging Naval Port Zone 5 in Phu Quoc Island.

 Vietnam won 10 gold medal at the Aerobic Gymnastics Asian Championships, which wrapped up in HCM City yesterday.

 Hundreds of Buddhist antiques which have been stored in a temple in Da Nang City for many years will be exhibited to the public on December 24 for the first time.

 A 31-year-old chef from HCM City won the heart of the cooking contest jury to become the third-season Master Chef of Viet Nam 2015.

 Saigon Heat suffered another defeat in the ASEAN Basketball League after losing 60-62 to Singapore Slingers on Saturday on home turf at the HCM City's CIS Stadium.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) will reduce the reserve requirement ratio for banks that take part in the restructuring of the banking system.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of water reservoirs in the upper course of Mekong River could lead to a loss of 90 percent of alluvium in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - Four commercial banks have taken over finance companies, and other banks are consulting with their shareholders about buying such firms to expand their consumer lending.

 President Truong Tan Sang presented decisions on promoting three high-level officials of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) to the Senior Lieutenant General ranking at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 11.

 Vietnamese teams won three out of five gold medals at the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia Young Circus Talent Contest, which wrapped up in Hanoi on December 12 after five days of competition.

 Telecom company Viettel has begun trialling 4G wireless services in the southeastern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.