VietNamNet Bridge - While Vietnam struggles with scandals about banned substances and high antibiotic residue, meat imports from Europe have begun dominating the domestic market.

 With 84.58 percent of approval votes, the 14th National Assembly passed a Law on Belief and Religion in the second session’s November 18 sitting. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government will continue putting the brakes on credit growth in the heated real estate sector in the next 2-3 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – If rice is Viet Nam’s staple crop, xoi (sticky rice) is the nation’s choice dish, as much as the famous pho (rice noodle soup), if not more so.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An older Frenchman walking with the help of a cane has become a familiar figure to many residents of southern Viet Nam.

The strength of local customary laws helped maintain the village's forest when all surrounding forests have turned into barren hills or been replaced with industrial plants. It's situation in Ka Bay village in Kon Tum province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha, responding to a lawmaker at a Q&A session during the National Assembly (NA) sitting on November 15,

 A Jazz concert featuring the French quartet Samy Thiébault will take place at Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music on November 25.

VietNamNet Bridge – Teacher Nong Thi Va is early riser.She has no choice because her 12km daily commute to work involves driving her motorbike through rough mountain roads and crossing the local river on a small suspension bridge. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Dinh Thong, deputy director of the Institute for Clean Energy, tells the newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) about Viet Nam’s big potential to develop renewable energy sources.

 President Tran Dai Quang and his Peruvian counterpart Pedro Paplo Kuczynsky discussed in depth ways to strengthen bilateral ties during their talks in Lima, the capital city of Peru on November 18 (local time). 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The illegal market for bears and bear parts is still strong in Viet Nam despite the introduction of legislation to ban their sale in 2006.

 Vietnam’s traditional Mother Goddess worship was performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 17, drawing crowds of international and local viewers. 

 Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) may shrink by about 0.6 percent per year between 2016 and 2020 due to natural disasters and environmental pollution, an official has warned at an international symposium in Hanoi on November 18. 

 President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse will pay a State-level visit to Italy from November 21-24 at the invitation of his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella. 

In support of Vietnam’s commitment to enforce its conservation laws and international treaties to protect endangered and threatened species, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius announced the new USAID Saving Species project to reduce wildlife crime.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s tourism authorities plan to organize a series of promotional programs in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore by the year-end.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 4,200 prisoners are expected to be granted amnesty later this year, a senior police officer said yesterday.

The film “A land imagined” by Chris Yeo from Singapore won the“Autumn Meeting Grand Prix” worth US$5,000 at the “Autumn Meeting 2016" which took place in Da Nang and Hoi An from November 8-16.

 Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Minh Quang told the ministry’s Party Civil Affairs Committee that he was willing to take responsibility for the environmental pollution caused by Taiwanese steel company Formosa.