‘Voracious Embrace: The Human / Animal Interface’ solo installation exhibition by Lena Bui on Thursday opened at HCMC Fine Arts Museum, bringing visitors to the hidden, perhaps overlooked encounters, between the human and animal world.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large number of upscale hotels and resorts being built across the country could create an oversupply and lead to unhealthy competition among hoteliers, experts have warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several areas of Ha Long Bay, the newly-voted world wonder in northern coastal Quang Ninh Province, are seriously polluted. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Lan, a worker in Ha Noi's Bac Thang Long Industrial Zone, has had three abortions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese movie industry faced a lack of resources and money to make historical movies, cinema researchers and filmmakers told a conference on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in Ha Noi's Cau Giay District have arrested Dong Pham Nguyen, 26, a resident of central Binh Dinh Province who pretended to be a brain tumour patient to ask the public for money.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi needs up to VND60 trillion, or $3 billion to build a smart city that applies information technology in all areas. This plan will be submitted to the Hanoi People's Council in early December.

 VietNamNet Bridge – She is Pierrette Lamorlette, a Vietnamese – French woman, and has made many contributions to charitable activities in Khanh Hoa province.

Vietnamese have been warned that the country would seriously lack coal in the next three years, because the coal industry lacks tens of billons of dollars worth of investment capital.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a film fan I have always loved going to the cinema to enjoy the big-screen experience. During a year I spent living in Hue, where there is no movie theatre, this was one of the few things I sorely missed.

A memorandum of understanding will be signed on Wednesday between the nation’s two biggest card unions, Smartlink Card Services Joint Stock Company and Vietnam National Financial Switching Joint Stock Co., to merge the former into the latter.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has been seeded No 8 for the Yonex-Sunrise Hong Kong Open 2012 that will take place from November 20-25 in Kowloon.

Experts say if Vietnam has to choose one of the two – the gold price stabilization and exchange rate stabilization – it would have to sacrifice the gold price in exchange for the stabilized dong.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has signed Resolution 20-NQ/TW which figures out key orientations, targets, tasks and solutions for science and technology development until 2020, vision to 2030.

The Ministry of Information and Communication’s (MIC) inspectors have designed drastic measures to keep stricter control over the content service fee management in an effort to minimize spam and swindle messages.

VietNamNet Bridge – Making the corrupt use of the loopholes in the current laws relating to the temporary import for re-export later, a lot of enterprises have illegally imported hazardous industrial waste.

VietNamNet Bridge - A farmer in the northern province of Hoa Binh caught a fish with a strange shape several days ago. Leading experts on freshwater fish said it could be an Ophicephalidae snakehead.

VietNamNet Bridge – Almost no singer, even those from Quang Nam, sings modern music with the Quang accent because it is very hard to recognize specific sounds and words. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The exotic plant that is invading the field of farmers in the Central Highlands appeared in many provinces and cities in the country a few years ago. There are many fields in the region are in danger of disappearance.

 An international team of astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could reside, around the nearby star HD 40307,

 Speculation surrounding the potential merger of the banks Sacombank (STB) and Eximbank (EIB) has increased in recent days after the departure of STB founder and chairman Dang Van Thanh and a big increase in share activity.

Travel firms have launched noisy promotion campaigns to lure more travelers in the low season. However, their efforts have been in vain.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health compiled to a draft plan on mitigating overcrowding of hospitals during the 2012-2020 period.  

Coffee export companies have insisted on the permission to borrow money in foreign currencies, which they say would be the effective solution to ease the capital shortage.

Rice, seafood exports not benefiting farmers; Kim Thanh international border crossing opens in Lao Cai; Goldenisation and dollarisation put under control; Smartlink, Banknetvn card unions merge; Ministry gets tough on quality of pay TV services