The National Gymnastics Championships started on November 23 at Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi.

 Visitors to central Quang Binh Province will get a chance to visit three caves that were recently discovered in the territory of local Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

 The second All Viet Nam Kendo Championships will begin on November 25-26 in Bac Tu Liem District in Ha Noi.

 Vietnam’s Ly Hoang Nam booked his spot in the quarter-finals of the Vietnam F3 Futures tennis tournament in the southern province of Binh Duong on November 23.

 The Vietnam Tennis Federation (VTF) will hosted 10 domestic and six international tournaments in 2018, VTF announced at a press conference on November 22.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The southern province of Binh Duong plans to seek more partnerships with neighbouring cities and provinces, businesses and local and international experts to build a Binh Duong smart city, 

 Vietnam and Sweden have agreed to accelerate the establishment of sectoral strategic partnerships in education-training, life science, health and environment.

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 National Assembly (NA) deputies had mixed views on the need of issuing a law on cyber security while scrutinising the draft law on November 23.

 The Hanoi Museum on November 23 introduced for the first time four groups of Thang Long – Hanoi national treasures on the occasion of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23).

 National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan received Singaporean Ambassador to Vietnam Catherine Wong Siow Ping in Hanoi on November 23, discussing her upcoming visit to Singapore.

 Vietnam wants Japanese and Osaka firms to expand operations in the country, especially in farm produce processing and consumption, support industry, health care and technological transfer, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested that Vietnam and Portugal continue promoting their traditional relationship that started 500 years ago since the first Portuguese arrived in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official said on November 23.

 The National Assembly will hold its closing ceremony on November 24, which will be broadcast live nationwide.

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While government officials and some economists are optimistic about economic performance this year, other analysts say growth is unsustainable because it relies too much on the foreign-invested economic sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - PhDs are now welcomed with open arms at universities, which are willing to pay hundreds of millions of dong to attract talented lecturers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Da Nang Center of Integrated Circuit (CENTIC) has invented a water environment monitoring station run with solar energy, the first hi-tech system of this kind designed and manufactured by Vietnamese engineers.

 Last week residents in Mai Dich Street, Hanoi, panicked as a large, speeding car smashed into a key-locked house at night. They thought the vehicle was out of control, but never guessed that the accident was deliberate.