This year's Nobel laureates, including a pro-democracy Tunisian group, will get their prizes on Thursday in Oslo and Stockholm, with security at the lavish banquets and concerts tightened after the Paris attacks last month.

For the past 30 years, Dr. Bui Dinh Linh - Director of the Medical Center of Phu Quy Island District – has devoted his heart and mind to take care of the people on the island district of Phu Quy, in the central province of Binh Thuan.

 New constructions denied licences after fire safety violations, Vinafood2’s violations damage over US$9.3 million, Second hand bottles used for fake spirits, Dak Lak public hospitals cannot pay their employees

 Hollywood casting director now hiring Vietnamese talent, UK singer Billy Page tours Vietnam, French DJ to perform at The Observatory, Dalat Flower Festival set to open late Dec, Vietnamese stamp exhibition to be held in Ha Noi

 Malaysian-born actress Michelle Yeoh, who starred in the well-known martial arts film ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1’, is on a business trip to Ho Chi Minh City, reports local newspaper Zing.vn.

 French pop-rock singer Sophie Huriaux, better known by her stage name La Grande Sophie, will perform in Ho Chi Minh City on December 11 before flying to Hanoi for her performance the next day.

 Two Vietnamese writers have received the Mekong River Literature Prize together with ten authors from Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China and Myanmar.

 The curtain closed on the eighth ASEAN Para Games (APG) with a spectacular ceremony at the Marina Bay Sands and the official handover to the next host country, Malaysia.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of new beer brands have appeared in the domestic market recently. Many brewery groups are planning to jump into Vietnam's promising market with 3 billion liters of beer consumed every year.

Boredpanda – a leading art, design and photography community website in Europe has published beautiful photos of nature landscapes in Vietnam, taken by French photographer Réhahn Croquevielle

  Vietnamese and international artists are working together at Heritage Space under an art project entitled Brownian Movement.

Vietnam could run up a US$4 billion trade deficit for the whole year after three consecutive years of a trade surplus, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) said.

VAMC buys bad debts of $2 billion in Q3, Foreign sector’s export value hits US$105 billion in 11 months, Hoa Sen to build huge steel mill in Binh Dinh, BIDV hard to meet criteria for ACV strategic investors

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday sent an official dispatch to ministries and investors for construction of a hydropower system and a trans-Asia waterway route section on the Red River.

 Final consumption expenditure (percent of GDP) in Vietnam was estimated at 70 percent last year by the World Bank with household consumption accounting for 90 percent, making the country among Asia’s top 5 retail markets.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is among five countries in the world with the most plastic waste discarded into the ocean. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The US-based Boston Global Forum will present the “World Leader for Peace, Security and Development” Awards on Global Cybersecurity Day (December 12).

VietNamNet Bridge - Since the first iPhone 2G was launched on the market in 2007, nine iPhone generations with 12 models have been marketed. Many Vietnamese fans of iPhones have begun to be a bit bored with the phone.

 Parties’ connections pivotal to Vietnam-Azerbaijan relationship, Cambodian Senate President greets Vietnamese lawmaker, Hung Yen constituents meet local NA deputies, Vietnam’s 70-year human rights achievements highlighted

Vietnam will further co-operate with its neighbours and the international community to tackle drug trafficking in an attempt to make the ASEAN bloc drug-free, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said.

 Councilors of HCM City have assembled for a four-day meeting to vote for new leaders of the municipal People's Committee and discussion of several urgent issues as well as a review of socio-economic development.

Members of National Assembly Standing Committee started its 43rd meeting yesterday, focusing on preparations for the last session of 13th legislature expected to be opened next March.

VietNamNet Bridge - Commercial banks appear to be rushing to issue bank cards but Vietnamese still don’t have the habit of making payments with plastic. 

President Truong Tan Sang and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko held talks in Hanoi on December 9, discussing ways to further lift economic and trade ties to a new height.

 The HCMC departments of industry-trade and health have announced 246 safe food selling points of five units in the city.