Three provinces in central Vietnam – Da Nang, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai – have prepared equipment and personnel to cope with an oil spill after a Chinese oil tanker was sunken near Vietnam’s Ly Son Island in early November.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Supreme People's Procuracy is prosecuting nine people for embezzling more than VND3.4 billion (US$173,400) in a bridge project in Quang Ninh Province funded with Japanese Official Development Assistance.

VietNamNet Bridge – Businesses in the capital have been pushing up salaries to attract employees in the final months of this year, labour management agencies report.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan agreed to organize the National Tourism Year in some locations from 2012 to 2017.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trung Dung has a great passion for old clocks and watches. He has collected hundreds of clocks and watches in the last 20 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thi Phung, who was caught abusing a three-year-old girl in a video clip disseminated online, was prosecuted and held in custody at the order of the People's Procuracy in Binh Duong Province's Thuan An District.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Nguyen Minh Triet hailed the role of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in promoting chess in developing countries upon receiving its President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov on his official visit yesterday, Nov 28.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last Thursday approved the establishment of Tan Tao University (TTU) in Long An Province, which is expected to begin enroling students in the 2011-12 academic year.

Whole Foods Market of Austin, Texas joined a cheese recall on Saturday, pulling seven types of cheddar cheese over the risk of E. coli or listeria.

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 320 youngsters from Southeast Asia and Japan will arrive in HCM City early next month for an annual cultural exchange.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, 250-300 contestants will represent all 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam to perform their traditional clothing in Hanoi next February.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 1,000 young people gathered here on Saturday night to dance as part of a worldwide event aimed at drawing the attention of world leaders to the issue of HIV/AIDS.

Real estate experts believe that the western area of the city will still be the most profitable area for investors in the time to come. However, the eastern area is also believed to bring good profit.

VietNamNet Bridge – Myanmar men's football team had their first training session in Ha Noi yesterday, Nov 28, four days before playing against host Viet Nam in the ASEAN Football Championship.

In 2005, "Super Girl", a TV talent show in China, turned college student Li Yuchun into a nationwide celebrity, but few could remember another contestant Wang Bei until recently, when she died during plastic surgery.

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo said on Sunday that China and the United States should help ease the tensions on the Korean Peninsula and facilitate dialogues.

VietNamNet Bridge - Over 8,000 Vietnamese and foreign runners took part in the 14th Terry Fox Run at the Phu My Hung New Residential Area in Ho Chi Minh City on November 28.

The Egyptian parliamentary election kicked off Sunday morning as voters go to polls nationwide to select a new People's Assembly (the lower house of parliament).

VietNamNet Bridge – The Supreme People’s Procuracy has prosecuted nine people for embezzling over VND3.4 billion in a bridge project funded by Japanese’s official development aid in Quang Ninh province.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City planned to reduce the rate of new HIV infections to less than 1 per cent in 2015 and maintain it in the following years, health officials said at a conference last Saturday.