After getting liberalized from the farms which specialize in breeding bears for gall, bears become the important patients of the Center for Rescuing Endangered Wildlife belonging to the Cat Tien National Park in Dong Nai province.

NGOs exempt from work permit rules; Trade promotion representative offices; Chinese products disguised as Da Lat specialties; Local seafood exports faced with difficulties; Contraband gold marketed as well-known brand

Vietnam failed to secure a brozen medal after being defeated 4-1 by Myanmar in Indonesia on November 21. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Under new regulations approved by Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thi Xuyen, full-time doctors will not be allowed to work more than 200 hours per year at health centres where they work part-time.

China's trade volume with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is likely to reach $400 billion this year, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Producers of bio-fuel E5 are concerned about sales as Vietnamese consumers have been ignoring the environmentally friendly fuel.

The Quang Ninh provincial authorities have decided to prohibit two contractors to implement the projects funded by the Quang Ninh local budget. Prior to that, some contractors were dismissed after their problems were discovered.

Vietnam Talent Contest awards ceremony held; Woman declares bankruptcy after borrowing $1mil; Italy helps Thua Thien-Hue develop education and health care

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Ngo Van Minh from Quang Nam province said if prostitutes are arrested and released immediately in case they are not sick, “we recognize that prostitution is a job, by chance.”

VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition of pottery products made by students of the Hanoi-based Nguyen Dinh Chieu School for Blind Students opened at the Vietnam Fine Art Museum on November 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Student Football Championship is set to kick off in the capital city today with the participation of 16 teams drawn from across the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of many districts in Hanoi are criticized for neglecting nearly 100 parking lots that violate the law, while the governments of some wards lend a hand to illegal parking lots.

Juventus routed Palermo 3-0 on Sunday to stay at the top of Serie A with one game in hand.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan has asked local authorities throughout the nation to expand information dissemination activities that focus on methods to prevent the hand-foot-mouth disease in order to reduce the number of cases.

The State Securities Commission (SSC) has admitted that 105 securities companies are too much for a fledgling stock market like Vietnam. Experts believe that it is now the right time to re-organize the market.

VietNamNet Bridge – President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres will pay an official visit to Vietnam from Nov. 22-26 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang.

The gloomy Vietnamese stock market and the global economic crisis are the two large rocks that hinder investment funds to call for capital. However, more and more new funds still appear every day on the market.

Real Madrid remain three points clear of FC Barcelona at the top of the La Liga following a weekend in which the case for those complaining the Spanish league is a two horse race became even stronger.

VietNamNet Bridge – Teacher Le Viet Minh has been teaching ethnic minorities in the mountains of the north-central province of Quang Binh for so long that there is a little of the ethnic Vietnamese in him.

Mariano Rajoy has been elected as the next prime minister of Spain with a landslide victory in the general election on Sunday.

The situation of vocational schools, which have been dragging out a miserable existence for the last many years, has got even worse due to the lack of students.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has made important contributions to implementing ASEAN priorities, including building the ASEAN Community, strengthening ASEAN connectivity and expanding the association’s foreign relations.

HCMC has mapped out a major plan to build a waste-to-energy plant and two other facilities to treat toxic waste and wastewater to cope with rising volumes of solid waste and wastewater in the city.

The 2012 budget plan is currently a hot topic at the National Assembly agenda. Its Finance and Budget Committee senior expert Bui Duc Thu sheds some light on the issue.

The 2011 Vietnamese Talent Awards ceremony was held on November 20 at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi to honour the best products and initiatives in the fields of information technology (IT), natural sciences and physiology.