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.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has announced plans to buy back gold from the public in a bid to resolve the problem of gold hoarding by wary savers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Inspecting a coach, HCM City traffic police detected two frozen baby tigers, two frozen bears and eight bear hands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Cinematography Department announced yesterday the list of 14 films to compete at the second Hanoi International Film Festival (Haniff) to be held from November 25 to 29.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite being highly appreciated, HCM City is facing many difficulties in realising its plan to hire Filipino teachers of English.  

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The hotel sector in Asia is expected to grow strongly with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% in the 2012-2016 period, with Vietnam obtaining the highest growth of up to 15%, said an international researcher.

According to officials of PetroVietnam, the negotiation process to build the Nghi Son oil refinery in the central province of Thanh Hoa just slows down a bit after the Japanese partner adjusted its funding plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has urged Laos to continue its research on the environmental impacts of the planned Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The liquid solution and small white particles found in imported bras that allegedly caused skin irritations are not harmful to women, announced the Ha Noi Market Watch Department yesterday, Nov 8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Members of the National Assembly yesterday adopted the 2013 socio-economic development plan by a majority vote of 91.77 per cent.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam dominated at the Asian Junior Finswimming Championships at Da Nang's swimming club yesterday, Nov 8, when they brought home four gold medals. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will begin his two-day official visit to Vietnam on November 9 as guest of President Truong Tan Sang.

VietNamNet Bridge - At the park before the HCMC People's Committee, a bronze-cast statue of President Ho Chi Minh of 6.3 meters high will be raised.

Businesses do not intend to list their shares on the bourses these days, because it is now not the right time for them to seek capital on the stock market.

"My God! Obama won, Obama is number one," "Obama won, congratulations," or "Congratulation Obama, congratulation those who embrace peace" ... Greeting statuses appeared on online forums of Vietnamese people at noon of November 7.

Most of the primary schools in Hanoi now run the international English teaching programs together with the standard program set up by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

VietNamNet Bridge – On the afternoon of November 8, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced that Vietnam will be the host of the Asian Games (Asiad) in 2019, ending the race for the right to host the event.

 Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina on Thursday confirmed that the death toll of the 7.4- magnitude earthquake rose to 52, 22 people remain missing, and 1.2 million others were affected.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Party and State bestow importance to increasing diversified cooperation with Denmark, including the ties with Danish Social Democratic Party, the Congress and its people.

The kiss between singer Dam Vinh Hung and a Buddhist monk at a charity show in HCM City has encountered backlash from the public. The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it is considering the case.

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