VietNamNet Bridge - Tourism and related services make great contributions to economic growth and offset the decline in crude oil output, experts say.

Analysts say that teachers today are different from previous generations. They communicate with students via social networks, do not seek lifetime employment in civil servant jobs, and train their students to be global citizens.

 The trillion-dong street food market will sooner or later belong to foreign businesses if domestic firms do not make proper and professional investment, industry insiders have said.

With WiSpiro, the autonomous system that monitors a person’s breathing volume invented by Prof Vu Ngoc Tam, users can check the quality of their sleep via brainwave signals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A charity concert where orphaned children give “music, love and hope” to the community will be held at the Ha Noi Opera House on December 2.

One startup has done very well by focusing on providing employment opportunities to only women.

 VIF17 co-hosted by Embassy of Sweden in Vietnam and Ministry of Information and Communications on November 27 and 28.

 Foreign remittances to Ho Chi Minh City reached US$3.9 billion in 10 months leading up to November, said Deputy Director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s HCM City branch Nguyen Hoang Minh.

 A fishing boat has sunk in the waters off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, leaving two dead and four others missing.

 Twenty-eight firms, including Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation and Nui Phao Joint-venture Co., Ltd., have been put under special environmental control by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

A ceremony took place in Hanoi on November 28 to welcome Polish President Andrzej Duda and his spouse, who are paying a four-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan held talks with her Singaporean counterpart Tan Chuan-Jin in Singapore on November 28.

 Ten paintings by noted Vietnamese artist Le Pho (1907-2001) were sold at high prices at an auction sale held by Christie’s Hong Kong on November 26.

 V.League champions Quang Nam FC are faced with the possibility of not qualifying for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League 2018.

 Viet Nam has embarked on the process of liberalising the power sector, in the hopes of easing electricity shortages, attracting more investment and boosting economic growth.

 Fifteen Vietnamese banks have recently been named in The Asian Bankers’ AB500 ranking and survey of Asia Pacific’s strongest banks.

 Scarlet fever hit its highest level in England for 50 years, with more than 17,000 cases reported in 2016 - research in the Lancet shows.

A whopping £1.4bn was spent on online sales in the UK on Black Friday - up some 11.7% on last year, according to online retailers trade body IMRG.

 The police of HCM City’s District 12 on Tuesday launched an official investigation into a children torturing case at Mam Xanh private kindergarten.

 After a long delay, the Law on Planning was finally adopted by the National Assembly last Friday, making it more convenient for firms and investors to decide on their local business and investment plans.