President Tran Dai Quang has reiterated that Vietnam attaches great importance to developing stable, healthy and sustainable relations with China.

 Legislators approved a resolution on the five-year financial plan with 86.64 percent of “yes” votes during the ongoing second meeting of the 14th National Assembly on November 9. 

 The Party, State and people of Vietnam always attach importance to the friendship with China, considering this a persistent guideline, a strategic choice and a top priority in the country’s foreign policy, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has agreed to open up its coal-fired power plants once a month for local authorities and residents to learn about and monitor their operations.

VietNamNet Bridge – Residents in the central provinces of Ha Tinh and Thua Thien-Hue affected by the recent environmental incident started to receive their first-phase compensation package. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The Belgian Embassy in Ha Noi is for the first time organising “Belgian Week in Viet Nam” to celebrate its King’s Day on November 15. Festivities will begin on Saturday. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three members of a family in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau died after eating toad gruel, according to local hospital.

 The Hanoi Centre for Wildlife Rescue has received an Asian black bear that was illegally kept for bile extraction for over a decade in the suburban district of Dong Anh, according to Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV).

More than 100 inmates escaped from a drug rehab centre in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Wednesday morning, local authorities said.

 Most of the time, parents can safely feed peanuts to babies on their own, but infants with a history of allergies should still get a checkup first, a research review confirms.

 Cu Lan village, lying in a small valley around 20km from Da Lat City, is a tourist attraction in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

 The Vietnam International Bank (VIB) is implementing procedures to get listed on UPCoM early next year instead of 2018 as previously planned.

 A shortlist of the 20 best IT products were selected for the final round of Vietnamese Talents Awards 2016 (Nhan tai đat Viet), with the theme "For the quality of life".

VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang will host the 6th Asia Golf Tourism Convention (AGTC) – the premier golf travel event in the Asia-Pacific region – combining a golf tour with tourism meetings from May 7 to 13, 2017.

The rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country fell by 16 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but health experts have said that more needs to be done to reach the goal of having a transmission rate of under 2 per cent by 2020 nationwide.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first national professional basketball league (VBA) is nearing the end of its season, as the first champion will be selected after a three-leg final. 

Republican Donald Trump stunned the world on Tuesday by defeating heavily favored Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, ending eight years of Democratic rule and sending the United States on a new, uncertain path. 

 Bird flu has been found in the corpses of wild ducks near Austria's border with Germany and Switzerland, Austrian authorities said on Tuesday, adding there was no evidence the virus could be transmitted to humans.

Large multinational manufacturing conglomerates have capital and technologies, but lack sufficient number of good workers in their home countries. For that reason, as well as lower labor costs, they have invested in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People who travel on Xuan Thuy Street in Thao Dien Ward in HCMC’s District 2 these days might notice a foreigner running a mobile coffee tricycle along the road.