VietNamNet Bridge – While observers believe that budget airlines cannot make profit in the current difficult conditions, some Vietnamese budget airlines have reported profits and plans to expand their fleets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism companies wanting to do business in the outbound segment are required to deposit VND500 million each from January 1, doubling the current level,

 A Vietnam-Japan security dialogue at the deputy ministerial level, the first of its kind between the two countries, was held in Hanoi on November 26.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lawmakers yesterday discussed the feasibility of applying compulsory health insurance for all citizens to achieve the target of national insurance coverage at the sixth session of the 13th National Assembly.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cultural authorities in HCM City are working with veteran sculptors to develop more public spaces for sculpture as part of an effort to enhance the urban environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Customs Department has cracked three cases where raw material for heroin production was being smuggled into Australia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Anh Khoi continued to confound experts with his chess prowess, winning silver at the National All-star Chess Tournament which concluded on Monday, Nov 25, in HCM City.

While people throughout the country complain that their local forests are “bleeding”, the people in the central province of Quang Nam can take pride of the hundreds-of-years old forest compared as their “amulet.”

The Ministry of Finance’s (MOF) decision on setting the commission ceiling level at VND430 per liter has faced the strong opposition from agents. Analysts believe the “commission war” would last a long time.

The three big guys Trung Nguyen, Vinacafe Bien Hoa and Nestle are still dominating the instant coffee market, but their affected areas have been narrowed because of the appearance of new brands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of female students in Can Tho City have joined teenagers’ forums just to fight over the same-sex marriage right. They acknowledge themselves as lesbians, though they are actually not lesbians.

 In Vietnam, “Banh Phu The” (conjugal cake) is a special cake, which symbolises the loyalty of a husband and wife...

VietNamNet Bridge – People in central provinces are being battered by constant landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential rains.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of 3G service subscribers have decided to stop using service after mobile network operators increased the service fee by 40 percent. However, they complain that it is very difficult to cancel the service.

VietNamNet Bridge – An increasing number of people are now suffering from cancer, acute and chronic respiratory diseases and allergic reactions in big cities in Vietnam as a result of air pollution.

A truck moving at high speed lost control and overturned in Saigon river tunnel, Ho Chi Minh City, at 1.40 pm on November 25.

Vu Hoang Diep, the first Vietnamese woman to win a major beauty contest, the 2009 Miss International Beauty, faced public criticism for her "shocking" jeans, after the images were captured by two Singaporean newspapers.

 Businesses optimistic about Vietnam’s economic outlook; Vietnam urged to utilise TPP advantages; Sumitomo red tape tangle delays power plant project; Ministries bombarded with complaints

 VietNamNet Bridge – A memorandum of understanding for co-operating in developing HCM City's semi-conductor industry was signed last Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists recently announced a new gecko species based on specimens collected in the karst forest of Cao Bang Province, northern Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has asked the Prime Minister to instruct commercial banks to provide loans to coffee export companies, which are in distress.

 More than 400 students of a Mumbai school were hospitalized Monday with symptoms of food poisoning after eating a cake served in mid-day meal,

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 70 Vietnamese surgeons, anaesthesiologists and doctors on November 26 conducted an operation on conjoined twins fused from the upper thorax to lower belly.

 Hundreds of anti-government protesters occupied the compound of the foreign ministry in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Monday.

The scale of the bond market in Vietnam reached nearly $25 billion, down in the third quarter of 2013, but still obtained the highest growth in the region in comparison with the same period last year, according to the ADB.