VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 per cent of National Assembly deputies on Friday, Nov 29, passed amendments to the Land Law, which will take effect on July 1 next year.

 At least four people were killed and 67 others injured when a passenger train derailed in New York City borough of Bronx Sunday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of Vietnamese students in Australia and Japan have been asked to return home because they did not go to school, but went working at factories and farms for money.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Microsoft and other big guys--Asus, Lenovo and HP, are going to launch a series of touch screen laptops to the Vietnamese market, targeting the popular market segment.

VietNamNet Bridge – Top-class hotels and resorts may provide visitors to Vietnam with plenty of options for comfortable trips with high-class facilities and services, but if you really want a local taste of life here, a homestay is hard to beat

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nha Trang Bay, a well known tourism site in the south of the central region, receives thousands of cubic meters of waste water every day from residential quarters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the current big economic difficulties, businesses would have to fasten their belt and reserve limited budgets for Tet bonus for workers, according to the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

 VietNamNet Bridge - You can find a fancy antique on Le Cong Kieu Road in District 1 or enter the world of old books on Tran Nhan Tong Road in District 5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has ordered hospitals to set up hotlines to receive feedback from patients. This will enable hospitals to evaluate the quality of treatment, attitudes of medical staff and emergency medical care.

 Life insurance market to surpass annual growth target; Regional forum tackles petrol woes; Soc Trang provides sweeping opportunities for wind power; Can Tho intensifies IP construction

 VietNamNet Bridge – Floods and storms have triggered total losses of over VND50 trillion over the past three years, including around VND25 trillion this year alone.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The latest round of TPP negotiations was wrapped up in Utah, Salt Lake City, the US, on November 26, opening up opportunities for concerned parties to reduce disagreements before the TPP Ministerial Meeting

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the use of electric cars for tourism in Hanoi's Old Quarter have not brought many positives along with them, locals of the Old Quarter have been complaining about traffic problems on the narrow streets.

While analysts believe that Starbucks has bogged down in Vietnam with third poorly patronized shops, the representative of the US giant affirms that hundreds of Starbucks shops will be opened in the Vietnamese market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese animated film studios have been struggling to find their audience after the government decided to stop granting them subsidies.

VietNamNet Bridge – Faced with Viet Nam's chaotic streets, mind-numbing bureaucracy and appetite for strange delicacies (dog, anyone?), it is easy for somewhat uptight foreigners such as myself to underestimate the value of spending time

 VietNamNet Bridge – Writers and critics have said the quality of literature in Viet Nam has seen a dramatic slump in the past 15 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Thi Huong has bad memories of the last Southeast Asian Games, where the sprint queen failed to defend her titles.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five student teams of Vietnam will take part in the contest to manufacture fuel-efficient vehicles in the Philippines in February 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Treat animals the way you would wish to be treated. That's the message that young members of a dog and cat rescue group are trying to convey to people in the capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s cable television market will soon see a number of changes.

VietNamNet Bridge – He may have amassed a collection of international titles, but Viet Nam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is still missing a men's singles gold from the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

The State Bank of Vietnam has announced that besides the nine weak commercial banks which are undergoing the restructuring process, it has found another 8 weak credit institutions for the compulsory restructuring.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Do Anh Tuan, 23, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in the US. Continuing what has the makings of a sparkling career, he has just won the excellent conductor award

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Committee has approved a programme to manufacture 300 buses powered by compressed natural gas over the next year.