Vietnamese rescuers saved two foreigners yesterday after deteriorating health caused both to lose control of their Panama-registered boat, Ocean Dream.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s best male badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has earned 8th place in the World Badminton Federation’s (WBF) latest rankings.

 As more bodies have been recovered in typhoon affected areas in central Philippines, the number of death toll rose to 5,598, the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Friday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese American Paul Le Hung who claimed himself as a representative of the “$10 billion aid package” for Vietnam has been accused of fraud by several businessmen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors of the HCM City-based Children’s Hospital 2 said that the baby named Phi Phung is not in good condition and he may face extraordinary events in the next few days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Business operations abroad brought a profit of VND592.2 billion (US$28.2 million) for Viettel Global Investment Joint Stock Company in its 2013 third quarter, according to the firm's report.

A young father took his four-year-old son to the kindergarten. On the way, he stopped at a gas station for filling, then going straight to his office, forgetting the boy at the filling station.

 America's plain old telephone network is rapidly being overtaken by new technology, putting US regulators in a quandary over how to manage the final stages of transformation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After having sex with a whoremonger, a prostitute in the Mekong Delta of Can Tho began labor. The whoremaster was frightened and ran away.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The world-renown professors such as Sven Hansbo (Sweden), Alain Guilloux (France) and Rolf Katzenbach (Germany) ... are now in Vietnam for the Geotechn conference in Hanoi.

After two humiliating failure games against Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Vietnam dropped down on FIFA rankings in November. Specifically, it fell by seven spots to 158th compared to October.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The maximum salary for the leaders of state-owned groups will be VND54 million per month starting next year, and if their firms do not make a profit their monthly salaries will be an average of VND10 million.

 Brazil awarded 72 onshore natural gas and shale gas exploration blocks Thursday in a controversial auction marked by complaints from environmentalists about a lack of regulation

Viet Nam's Minister of Science and Technology and the British Embassy signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in peaceful use of nuclear energy yesterday, Nov 28.

 Walmart, the biggest retailer in the United States, is opening its first-ever stores in the US capital -- but some aren't giving it a warm welcome.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourists getting ready to schedule their vacations should consider traveling by air or train from HCMC or Hanoi as their best options to reach their destinations at set times depending on their budgets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the January-November period of 2013, the state budget paid VND89.5 trillion of debt ($4.26 billion), equivalent to about 11 percent of the total budget spending.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least 600 young single people aged 18 years old and up will gather at the "Paktor Speed Date Night" to break the world's current Guinness World Records for the largest speed dating event.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities in Binh Thuan Province have warned of the environmental danger of titanium processors in the aftermath of a broken sludge reservoir incident that occurred in Ham Thuan Nam District a week ago.

 The PM has agreed to research the building of Ban Gioc waterfall tourism site and convert it into a key tourist destination in northern mountainous Cao Bang province.

Abbott has sent dispatches to the Vietnamese authorities to denounce a HCM City-based company – the Song Nam Investment Development Co., Ltd. of using fake documents to import Ensure milk into Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seventy percent of Vietnamese people still don’t have smart phones, which means that Vietnam remains a potential market for manufacturers to exploit.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China has bought around one-third of Vietnam’s 6.3 million tons of export rice via official channel, not counting the amount via border trade, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 Garlic can significantly reduce the contamination risk of Cronobacter sakazakii, a foodborne pathogen that can lead to fatal infections of infants, in the production of dry infant formula powder,

The international model of learning, which is believed to modernize Vietnam’s problematic education system and better prepare children for the global integration, known as VNEN, has turned out to be unsuitable to the country.