VietNamNet Bridge – The Spanish Cultural Week in HCMC opened yesterday, Nov 19, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Spain.

 Unemployment, multiple job losses and short periods without work may be associated with increased risk for acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack),

VietNamNet Bridge – The Director of Long An Provincial Police Agency has decided to dismiss eight police officers for using drugs during training.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam will officially have its representative as the ASEAN Secretary General in the 2013-2017 term, after Mr. Surin Pitsuwan’s term ends later this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang has made plans to invest in a new tourist site at the top of the Hai Van Pass in order to lure domestic and foreign tourists,

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of Bac Tra My district, Quang Nam Province, confirmed that the district would not welcome earthquake inspection teams because experts could not help solve quakes in the district.

VietNamNet Bridge – Arranging settlements and new means of livelihoods for those whose land had been revoked was no less important than offering them fair compensation packages.  

Dang Thanh Tam, who was praised as one of the biggest Vietnamese tycoons with his huge investment projects, turns out to be not as rich as previous thought.

By November 15, the State budget deficit was estimated at VND153.8 trillion, exceeding the yearly plan of about VND13.6 trillion, more than 9.7% over the overspending plan for 2012 that was approved by the National Assembly (VND140.2 trillion).

 US stocks surged Monday on upbeat housing data and hopes that politicians will find a way to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts in January.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ordinary and the ethereal meet in a series of oil paintings by Nguyen Duy Linh now on display at Tu Do Gallery in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - A venomous snake crawled into the house to bite a sleeping boy in the southern province of An Giang. The victim died on the way to the hospital.

VietNamNet Bridge - After many bank officials were prosecuted for loans related to An Khang, a seafood processing company in Tra Noc Industrial Zone 2, Can Tho city, this firm’s director has also been prosecuted.

On November 20, the Criminal Investigation Department of the People’s Supreme Procuracy served the decision to prosecute and arrest a former police officer of Tien Giang province for "abuse of power on duty."

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The international ratings agency Moody's cut France's top bond credit rating by one notch to "Aa1" Monday and maintained a negative outlook, meaning that another downgrade was possible in the medium term. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A national remembrance event for traffic accident victims was held and broadcast live nationwide yesterday, Nov 19, in Ha Noi, organised by the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

 Three more Palestinians were killed late on Monday night in the ongoing Israeli warplanes airstrikes on various targets in the Gaza Strip, raising the death toll since the start of the Israeli attack to 110 Palestinians,

VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of smuggled chickens were seized while they were transported from the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang to a wholesale market in Hanoi yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE4) of the U.S. Navy has entered the Ba Ngoi port in Cam Ranh Bay in Khanh Hoa Province to be repaired at the Cam Ranh Bay Shipbuilding Co.

 HCM City hosts fourth int’l seminar on East Sea; PM meets with RoK, Malaysian leaders; Deputy Commander of US Pacific Command visits Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ASEAN+3 Summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and China, and a series of ASEAN+1 Summits

Chinese businessmen keep trying every possible means to collect minerals in Vietnam and carry them to China, the country which is thirsty for minerals for economic development.

 An Australian investment banker who attached a fake bomb around the neck of a Sydney schoolgirl in a bid to extort money from her wealthy family was Tuesday jailed for at least 10 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tighter management of pay-TV programmes is necessary because several foreign channels are carrying content not compatible with Vietnamese culture and some are dealing with sensitive foreign affairs issues.