VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnam makes every effort to strive for trade liberalization internationally, it has limited liberalization internally, according to Pham Chi Lan, a renowned economist.

 The Office of the Government has released a decision from Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on gaming being made available to passengers exiting or transiting at Vietnam’s international airports.  

For the first time, customers will have a chance  to invest in properties and purchase homes in prime locations while enjoying the colourful, festive atmosphere at the Dragon City Festival 2015 – Dragons Gathering.

 On December 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, Wozniak will address 400 of Vietnam’s leading businessmen at the SMAC 2015: Connecting Values - Evoking Potentials.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese weightlifters won a silver and bronze medal at the ongoing World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, USA.

 While Uber and GrabTaxi are seeing rapid expansion in Viet Nam, traditional taxis are seeking to utilise modern technologies to help lower fees and improve connections with passengers.

 El Nino will last until next spring, the season when winter crops are harvested, and is expected to usher in higher-than-average temperatures, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

 Vietnam sent 51 athletes and officials to compete in the seventh ASEAN Schools Games which kicked off in Brunei on November 22.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The health sector called on health workers and residents to use antibiotics responsibly by only taking medicine doctors prescribe at a meeting on Saturday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A majority of foreign visitors to Vietnam choose to stay at hotels of three to four-star ratings while domestic tourists favor two to three-star hotels as shown in Vietnam Annual Tourism Report 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – German director Dominik Gunther from Hamburg and puppeteers from Dresden are cooperating with the Ha Noi-based Youth Theatre to stage a play entitled Fisherman and a Golden Fish.

The Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association was chosen to receive aid from the Global Fund with total expected funds of US$6.9 million including official development assistance and corresponding funds from the Vietnam Government. 

 US President Barack Obama said on November 21 that countries should stop building artificial islands and militarising their claims in the East Sea.

The 27th ASEAN Summit and related meetings wrapped up in Kuala Lumpur on November 22 with the signing of a Declaration on the establishment of the ASEAN Community which featured a turning point in the 48-year-old bloc’s history.

 Vietnam has proposed the Finnish Government push ahead with the negotiation on and signing of a visa exemption agreement for diplomatic passport holders of the two countries.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung proposed the US quickly recognise Vietnam’s market economy status while meeting with US Trade Representative, Ambassador Michael Froman on the margin of the ongoing 27th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on November 21.

Developments with increasing complication in the East Sea pose one of the most serious security challenges to ASEAN, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung delivered speeches at the 18th ASEAN-China Summit, the 13th ASEAN-India Summit, the third ASEAN-US Summit and the 18th ASEAN+3 Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 21.

 Leaders of the 10 ASEAN member countries signed the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on the Establishment of the ASEAN Community at the 27 th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 22.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung have urged ASEAN and partner countries to focus their links across education, narrowing development gap, agriculture, connectivity, sub-regional collaboration and coping with non-traditional security challenges.

Many people expressed their concern about the fate of history as a learning subject at general schools after the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) integrates history with other subjects.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met world leaders in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 21 on the sidelines of the 27th ASEAN Summit and related meetings.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam needs a strong national rice brand. But to do this, it is necessary to eliminate the monopoly enjoyed by the two largest food corporations.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vibrant Ho Chi Minh City campaign was the first ever destination branding strategy for the city. It was built by team of local and foreign professionals.

VietNamNet Bridge - Apple Operations International (AOI), the owner of Apple Vietnam, has been involved in in the past in tax evasion scandals in the US and Ireland.