PM Nguyen Tan Dung has pressed for the prompt signing of the Viet Nam–US double taxation avoidance agreement and conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations this year as committed by leaders of member nations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The latest White Book on Viet Nam's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) outlook shows that it has become brighter on the global ICT map, despite the domestic economic downturn.

 VietNamNet Bridge –The Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City has announced that a campaign to restore public order in the center of the City will be carried out from November 11-27

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign investors may be entitled to directly distribute products they are banned from under existing regulations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 600-year-old village of Phuoc Tich in central Thua Thien Hue Province has lost half its natural beauty according to locals, and the rest is under threat from road and dyke works.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Court in has sentenced a 23-year-old Chinese woman to life imprisonment on November 13 for smuggling more than 1.9kg of synthetic drugs into Vietnam in October 2012.

 U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have successfully tested a powerful gene therapy, delivered directly into the heart, to reverse heart failure in pigs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Telecom groups recently have repeatedly complained that their telecom cables have been cut by rivals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has said Vietnam will continue carrying out its open foreign policy of befriending all nations alongside firmly defending national sovereignty.

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The Ministry of Construction and the State Bank both have loosened the requirements on the borrowers of the VND30 trillion package in an effort to speed up the disbursement. However, the power is in the hands of commercial banks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and the European Union will hold regular dialogue and exchange information on tourism to ensure its sustainable development and competitiveness in both sides.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Center on Thursday announced that the tropical low pressure system had entered the southeastern parts of the East Sea and was now heading towards the south central of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Trong Hoang has been named in the Asian 11 for October.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many gay couples expressed their excitement and planned their weddings after they knew that Decree No. 110 eliminated the same-sex wedding from the ban list.

Viet Nam pocketed one gold and one silver at an international muay thai tournament that finished in Myanmar early this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The images of saola, the endangered species, have been recently recorded in the central province of Quang Nam, 15 years since the last time this species was seen in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of enterprises, which were over head and ears in debts, have unexpectedly announced they have escaped from the debt burden worth trillions of dong.

Despite the rules of the SEA Games that allows the participating countries to register two weightlifters for a weight category, the host country of the 27th SEA Games – Myanmar – has issued its own rules that only one weightlifter can compete.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Besides the Symphony-Opera-Ballet Theater located in the 23/9 Park, which is scheduled for completion in 2015, HCM City will have another theater in the Thu Thiem New Urban Area.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After prolonged heavy rains, mountains in Son Tay District, Quang Ngai Province were eroded, causing traffic division in the area.

The death toll from the ravage of typhoon "Haiyan" (local name Yolanda) rose to 2,357, government agency announced Thursday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A high school teacher in Hanoi has conducted a survey on 5,000 students to compile a questionnaire which serves as the collection of comments about teachers.