A drug used to treat advanced breast and colorectal cancers has been linked to sometimes fatal skin reactions in patients, its Swiss manufacturer and Canadian health officials said. 

Do Thi Phuong Mai has won the second prize at the 14th International Competition for singing classical music in Russia.

The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on December 4 sentenced a Cambodian national to 13 years in jail for drug trafficking and robbery.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training on December 4 announced that Vietnamese students were among the group of top-performing countries according to the latest PISA survey.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam, which could easily obtain the contracts on exporting rice in large quantities two or three years ago, now has to struggle hard to scramble for the right to export every ton of rice.

 Myanmar women Chinlone team won the first gold medal of the 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) on December 4.

 More than a third of twin births and more than three-quarters of triplets or higher-order births in the United States are the result of assisted reproductive technologies,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The innovation in educational assessments will be a breakthrough for education renewal, said Nguyen Minh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training, during an online discussion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When her parents named her Karishma (meaning miracle in Sanskrit), they had no idea how prescient their action would turn out to be.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At 10pm on December 4, a 3.8 -magnitude earthquake occurred in Tay Trang Pass in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien. The mild earthquake did not cause any damage.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of December 4, a 16m piece of the dike in Thu Duc District, HCM City was broken when the flood tide was surging. Water overflowed into hundreds of houses in the area.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The SEA Games Athletes Village is located in the newly-developed area in the northwest region of Myanmar’s capital city--Nay Pyi Taw, so athletes will have to face an unexpected problem: mosquitos.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranked 116 out of 177 countries and territories with the same score as last year: 31/100 (0 indicates high level of corruption and 100 is very clean).

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi ranks eighth in TripAdvisor’s Top 10 destinations on the rise in the world, which was released early this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The head of the Vietnam’s sports delegation to the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games has chosen swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc as the national-flag holder for the delegation at the opening ceremony of the 2013 SEA Games.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lacking capital, and eager for foreign investment capital, joining deeply into the international trade and using cash in payment, Vietnam has become the aiming point of the international finance criminals.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A ceremony to inaugurate the statue of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong was held at Yen Tu historical site in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The nation's tourism industry will be promoted strongly on social networks, smart phones and the internet under the National Tourism Promotion Programme for 2013-20

 "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died from 'traumatic and thermal injuries" in a fiery car crash, coroners said, fueling suggestions he may have survived the initial impact.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Business owners have expressed their worry that the long 9-day Tet holiday would upset their production plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam should use a lower frequency when developing 3G infrastructure to reduce costs as well as to increase the 3G broadband infrastructure,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The famous American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson opened its first showroom in Vietnam last weekend.

Spain is willing to share its experience in UN peacekeeping activities and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and support Vietnam in these fields.  

 The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.