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 VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court of HCM City on Friday handed down death sentences to the former chiefs of a financial and a construction company on charges of corruption and intentional violation of State regulations

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam ended their Asian Cup 2015 qualification campaign in the most disappointing fashion since 2007, as the country blew any hopes with a 3-0 defeat home against Uzbekistan in Group E match

 Female Vietnamese players flew to Jiangsu province’s Nanjing city on November 18 for a two-week training course in preparation for the upcoming 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games).

Established in Hanoi in 1997, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has served as a research centre and a public museum with a mission to collect, document, preserve and exhibit the cultural heritage of Vietnam ’s 54 ethnic groups.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, a lot of private planes have landed at the same time at the Da Nang International Airport.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A requiem for the souls of traffic accident victims was held at the Bai Dinh pagoda in the northern province of Ninh Binh on November 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On November 16, Hoi An ancient town in Quang Nam province was deeply submerged in flooding when the Hoai River water level exceeded the third alarm. Thousands of tourists were evacuated from the low-lying areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With a total investment of over VND2.3 trillion ($11 billion), the installation of the submarine power cable connecting Ha Tien to Phu Quoc, the longest in Southeast Asia, started on November 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The network infrastructure remains the asset of SK Telecom, a partner in the joint venture, while SPT is still negotiating on the partner’s withdrawal from S-Fone project.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning on November 17, hundreds of people flocked to the Sung Phuc monastery in Long Bien District, Hanoi, to commemorate the 49th day of the death anniversary of General Vo Nguyen Giap.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese businesses are still vague about the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) – of which Vietnam is a member, though the community would form up in just two years.

 The number of people killed by typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda, in central Philippines has climbed to 3,974 as of Sunday noon, a military official said Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three years since Viet Nam started to introduce agro- insurance policies back in 2011, bottlenecks still remained and there was plenty of work to be done to protect farmers from natural disasters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Recent reactions recorded after the administration of the Quinvaxem vaccine to babies were within safety limits, confirmed Director of the Preventive Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu.

Viet Nam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) on Friday held their second strategic defence dialogue in Seoul, during which they reviewed bilateral defence co-operation outcomes over recent years and plotted the direction of future collaboration.

 Authorities in Russia confirmed that all 50 people aboard a Boeing plane that crashed Sunday on landing in Russia's Kazan, capital of Tatarstan republic, were killed.

 Socialist Michelle Bachelet won a first round of Chile's presidential race Sunday, with voters putting her on track to replace a conservative, early returns showed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The adventurers first laid their boots on the soft jungle soil by 7.30am and before long the first challenge for them was set. How to cross a fast running stream without the use of a bridge?

 Nguyen Anh Thong won the judges' votes to become world champion at the World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Championships just outside Budapest on Saturday.

 On November 7, 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced its recognition of the Hue royal court music or “Nha nhac” as an oral and intangible heritage of humanity.

 Floods triggered by torrential rains in the central region have killed at least 31 people, left two missing and seriously injured three others, disaster officials said on November 17.

 Vietnam has become a pillar of India’s “Look East” policy, according to Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No ministry or branch has claimed the responsibility for the empty forest development fund.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Education and Training Department has urged schools to equip with interactive whiteboard in a plan to modernize teaching aids. However, schools keep indifferent to the plan.