VietNamNet Bridge – Eight young Vietnamese pianists will be competing against 140 others at the First International Chopin Piano tournament from tomorrow, Dec 1, to Sunday in Singapore.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though tickets for the upcoming ASEAN Football Cup 2010 (AFF Cup) did not sell very well the first day, the tickets were being sold for VND 10,000—20,000 more than their face prices.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam football team has been awarded the Labour Order, Third Class, for winning the ASEAN Football Championship-AFF-Suzuki Cup two years ago.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese guests looking for MICE facilities overseas will be one of the focuses of Singapore in the coming years and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is looking to further tap this market segment.

To defend its championship at the ASEAN Football Cup 2010, the Vietnamese national squad practiced at the My Dinh stadium in Hanoi on November 29. At the same time, players from Myanmar drilled at a near-by sports ground.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Athletics Federation yesterday gave cash prizes of VND130 million to sprinters Vu Thi Huong, Truong Thanh Hang and Vu Van Huyen for their silvers and bronze medal at the Asian Games

VietNamNet Bridge – Phong Le Village in Da Nang City on November 27-28 organized the traditional buffalo boy procession.

China continues to face mounting pressure to curb environmental degradation, despite progress in reducing pollution over the last five years, the environmental protection minister warned.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC is facing a drawback in the treatment of harmful waste as the amount of hazardous waste discharged into the environment has increased rapidly while many treatment companies are lacking of competence and technologies

British Chancellor George Osborne on Monday welcomed new figures on the British economy which showed it growing more strongly than expected and debt expected to fall.

Behavior Change cannot be achieved with support from NGO and communities only, but with people living with HIV/AIDS themselves really did it by supporting the community to prevent the prevalence of the epidemics.

At least 1,721 people died in the nation's cholera epidemic which began there just over a month ago, Haiti's Health Ministry said in a Monday statement.

Cultural and intellectual circle needs to communicate with andpersuade businessmen to play an active role in the cultural development.

The Russian government does not rule out the possibility of starting to import grain, as an option in case the prices of the national grain market rise sharply, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) opened in Cancun, a resort city of Mexico on Monday. The talks, from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10, are held to continue to search solutions to the climate problem.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Government Inspectorate and the World Bank (WB) on November 29 review the Vietnam Initiative Day 2009 and introduced the Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative (VACI) for 2011.

VietNamNet Bridge - ActionAid International in Vietnam (AAV) and the Centre for Research on Environmental Systems (CRES) jointly released their latest report on climate change in Vietnam on November 29.  

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities have made public the city’s plan to welcome the New Year, with six special programs.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Sunday evening that his country has got an 85-billion-euro bailout loan from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at an average interest rate of 5.8 percent.

Iranian Interior Minister on Monday accused the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services of assassinating its nuclear scientist, the state IRIB TV reported.