The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the government that accelerating house prices and low productivity pose the greatest threat to the UK's economic recovery.

 Flash flooding in the remote northern Afghan province of Baghlan has killed at least 73 people and forced thousands to abandon their homes, police say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The final round of Miss Vietnam Beauty Pageant 2014 will be held on Phu Quoc in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang from November 26 -- December 6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Believers taking part in religious pilgrimages, such as Muslims performing the Hajj or Buddhists visiting the four sacred sites in India and Nepal, are plainly recognised as "spiritual tourists".

 VietNamNet Bridge – The key objective of restructuring the agriculture sector is to raise the income of 15 million farmers, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat told Viet Nam Economics Times.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A circular issued by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), set to take effect this Friday, may not succeed in facilitating the provision of credit guarantees to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Huynh Thanh Thao of Cu Chi District, HCM City, who has congenital brittle bone disease, was astonished to see a Youtube clip of a person in a wheelchair dancing together with a non-disabled partner.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People call Tran Tuan Anh "the King of Orchids" because he owns two large gardens measuring more than 4,000 square metres in Ha Noi and Bac Ninh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Those low-slung electric scooters ridden silently through the streets by Vietnamese children now have to be registered.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some of the most outstanding Vietnamese musical works created since the beginning of the last century will be performed at a concert at the HCM City Opera House on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam's campaign against corruption continues to progress, although the lack of a system to control corruption is a major impediment, financial expert Bui Kien Thanh told Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper.

Many Hanoians often lack clean water because the pipeline, made with low-cost Chinese technology, often breaks down.

Building workshops and warehouses to lease to foreign investors proves to be a good way for Vietnamese logistics firms to “obtain some pieces of the logistics cake”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The following are the highlights of international responses to current developments provoked by the illegal installation of Chinese oil rig in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Karate Federation has recently decided to dismiss Le Cong, the veteran coach of the national karate team, after his 13 years of working hard and training many generations of the country’s karate martial artists.

VietNamNet Bridge – Over the past month, Viet Nam has conducted a string of diplomatic activities to request China to immediately withdraw its oil rig from Viet Nam’s waters and call on the international community to support

 VietNamNet Bridge – Millions of iPhone users in Vietnam can sigh with relief as BKAV, the best known internet security solution provider in Vietnam, has said that users were not hurt by hacking of many iPhone users in Australia and the US.

The 4C highway from Ha Giang town through Quan Ba, Yen Minh to Dong Van rock plateau is especially attractive to tourists with its bends. Some photos of the bends on the road named Hanh Phuc (Happiness).

 VietNamNet Bridge – When I arrived, Nguyen Van Kien (name changed) was lying on a bare, rickety bed made of thin wooden planks.

Dr Nguyen Ba Dien, director of the Centre for the Sea and International Marine Law under the Hanoi-based National University, says Vietnam is likely to bring China to international jurisdiction organisations given its violation of international law

When setting its oil rig in Vietnam's waters, China has targeted more than one goal. It has tried to alleviate tension, but at the same time continue the East Sea de facto occupation and its economic resource exploitation plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is changing its laws on enterprises and investment to boost the ease of doing business in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has vowed to build a clean and effective public service, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Tuan Anh told the Viet Nam Economics Times.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Director of the Vietnam Institute of Culinary Research Dr. Han Nguyen Nguyen Nha launched a project entitled ‘Vietnamese Kitchen’ to bring Vietnamese cuisine to the world.

 Rice exports to China up in volume, value; Vietnam, Russia accelerate interbank payments; Vietnam endorses investment protection agreement with Palestine; Hanoi named in Asia-Pacific top crowded retail markets