Tran Thi Nga, 75, lives in Van Mieu Ward, Nam Dinh City in the northern province of Nam Dinh. She has a 20-kilogram cat.

 The two large-sized coins dating back to the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945) were discovered in the central province of Quang Binh earlier this month.

 The central city of Hoi An will provide free ticket for tourists visiting the ancient town tomorrow, Friday, on the occasion of the Heritage Day and the 16th anniversary of Hoi An's recognition as a world heritage city by UNESCO.

 The moc ban (wood blocks) and chau ban (official administrative papers) Kings of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) used to record history are on display for the first time at an exhibition opened yesterday in Ha Noi.

The irrecoverable debts of 12 Vietnamese commercial banks by September 30, 2015 had reached VND23.522 trillion, which accounts for 65 percent of bad debts, representing a 15 percent increase from the 50 percent reported in mid-2015.

 Nguyen Huu Tin, deputy chairman of the HCM City People's Committee, called for raising VND15.9 trillion ($709.8 million) from private investors for anti-flooding works.

 Police from central province of Quang Tri yesterday seized reptiles such as turtles, and pangolins, and civets from a car on National Highway 1A in Vinh Linh District.

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 Seawater has been progressively encroaching on land in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, causing severe landslides in coastal areas.

  The 9th session of the Joint Vietnam-US Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (JCM-9) took place in Ho Chi Minh City on December 2 to review joint projects.

 A relatively intact bronze drum believed to belong to the Dong Son culture, originating in Vietnam over 2,000 years ago, has recently been discovered in Timor Leste.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will need $21 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from now to 2030. This amount of money is beyond domestic resources.

 More than 200 performers, aged 27 and less, will compete in the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia Young Circus Talent Contest held at the Vietnam Circus and Vaudeville School in Hanoi this year.

VietNamNet Bridge - When technologies change, policies must change, as in the case of GrabTaxi, many Vietnamese policy makers have said. 

 The Ho Tram Open event for professional golfers, slated for December 3-6 in the southern province of Ba Ria- Vung Tau, will offer $1.5 million worth of prizes, making it Vietnam’s richest golf showpiece.

 The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea (RoK) ratified the country’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Vietnam on November 30.

 The outlook for the Vietnamese banking system is stable, driven by the country's good economic growth and stabilising asset quality and good liquidity, according to a Moody's report released early this week.

 Vietnam has chosen to become a founding member of a new global set of trade rules by joining in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, Japanese Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Akira Amari said.

 FPT, Vietcombank, PetroVietnam Gas (PVGas), Vinamilk, and Vingroup are five Vietnamese enterprises that appeared on the Asia300 report, which was released recently by Nikkei Asian Review.

 Vietnam’s economy will escape from recession and start a new recovery cycle, according to the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF).

 The global market share of Vietnamese coffee has shrunk from 22 percent in 2014 to 18 percent this year even though the country is still the world’s second biggest coffee exporter.

 Vietnam’s GDP growth is likely to reach 6.5 percent this year as the country’s economy has weathered the recent turbulence in the external environment fairly well, said the World Bank (WB)’s latest report released on December 2.

 Leading scientists from the US and countries in the Mekong River basin met at a workshop in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on November 30 to discuss measures to quicken the building of a Mekong Delta Museum of Natural History.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung announced that Vietnam will contribute $1 million to the Green Climate Fund from 2016-2020 during his speech at the 21st Conference of the Parties.