Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan left Hanoi on November 30, beginning an official visit to Austria.

VietNamNet Bridge – Free surgery for children born with cleft lips and cleft palate deformities from southern provinces will take place at the National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in HCM City from December 12 - 16.

David Beckham-led Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team has arrived in Jakarta to kick off their Asia-Pacific tour, Jakarta Globe reported here on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomed some 5.3 million foreign visitors in the past 11 months, up 15.9 percent year-on-year, and met the country's tourism target, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

A list of ASEAN’s outstanding shares has been found on the common website of the ASEAN’s stock exchanges - (aseanexchanges.org - AE).

The total applications for all British university courses starting next October has fallen 13 percent, according to the latest statistics from British university admissions service.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will host the third Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship next year in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from September 1-7, the Asian Volleyball Confederation has announced.

VietNamNet Bridge – One week after the Southeast Asian Games 2011 in Indonesia, the Vietnam Olympic Committee honored the most outstanding athletes at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 29.

VietNamNet Bridge – An Appeals Court on November 29 commuted the sentence of an activist who was charged with carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration.

VietNamNet Bridge – Young ballet dancers from the Viet Nam National Orchestra and Ballet (VNOB) will perform a contemporary dance piece entitled Per Sonare, choreographed by Dane Louise Midjord.

Who will be able to acquire EVN Telecom? Experts believe that Viettel is the brightest candidate which can take over and use the current EVN Telecom’s infrastructure system most effectively.

Scientists in Canada have raised a prospect of reversing Alzheimer's disease by deep brain stimulation, according to media reports Monday.

Twenty percent of teachers do not master the skills for using teaching aids, 44 percent cannot use microscopes, while only 49 percent of students can do experiments in groups sometimes. A lot of students cannot understand maps and diagrams.

VietNamNet Bridge – The pollution of the West Lake--a beautiful landscape of Hanoi, has affected the life of urbanites and become a burning issue. What has made the lake become a rubbish dump?

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden paid a sudden visit to Iraq on Tuesday, the national al-Iraqiya TV channel reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly one month after the interruption due to the historical floods, Vietnamese travel firms have restarted the outbound tours to Thailand, because these are considered the most attractive tours in South East Asia.

The difficulties which exist in 2011 would repeat in 2012, and they would be even worse, economists have warned.

The Foreign Ministry’s National Border Committee has launched the English-language version of its website on Vietnam’s sovereign boundaries.

Amazon.com on Monday announced that this past Black Friday was the best ever for its Kindle products with consumers buying four times as many Kindle e- readers and tablets as they did last year.

VietNamNet Bridge – The coach of the Vietnamese national cycling team, Nicolai Kurkov (Kyrgyzstan), told the local media that he would never summon cyclist Bui Minh Thuy back to the team.