VietNamNet Bridge – Floods this year have killed 235 people besides property losses of more than VND37.65 trillion (US$1.7 billion), the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said

VietNamNet Bridge – Big stadiums are no longer the best place for music performances as pop stars and singers are now holding live mini shows to cut expenses this season. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Professor Tran Hong Quan, former Minister of Education and Training, speaks to Giao duc Viet Nam (Viet Nam Education) about the imperative need to promote autonomy among Vietnamese universities.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Sun Group will launch 20 resort villas and condotels of the Premier Village PhuQuoc Resort and Condotel Premier Residences PhuQuoc Emerald Bayprojects this week. 

VietNamNet Bridge – In response to employers’ complaints about legal restrictions on extra work, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed amending the Labor Code in a way that would double or remove the overtime cap. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is estimated to have 120 wild elephants and 45 domesticated ones, which are feared to disappear one day from the country without timely conservation action.

VietNamNet Bridge – Circus on ice shows by artists from Ukraine will be performed at 21 cities and provinces throughout the country for the first time from December 23. 

Mark Zuckerberg introduced the world to "Jarvis", an artificial intelligence system the Facebook chief created in his spare time, which can choose and play music, turn on lights, and recognize visitors, deciding whether to open the front door.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s education sector has set a target next year to collect school tuition via bank transfers instead of cash after two years of piloting the project at 40 schools.  

 Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen began a two-day official visit to Vietnam from December 20. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has backed a credit support package of VND50 trillion ($2.2 billion) to develop the country’s agriculture sector.

Nguyen Manh Kien from the capital city of Hanoi and Ton Thi Thanh Tuyen from the southern province of Binh Duong were named the winners in male and female categories respectively at the Vietnam Fitness Model Contest 2016,

VietNamNet Bridge – This Christmas, children will welcome yet another album from music writer Hoang Thu Trang, whose debut album of children’s songs became a huge hit.  

 Girl group Fifth Harmony has become four.The pop group formed out of U.S. talent show "The X Factor" in 2012 said on Monday that Camila Cabello was leaving the quintet but that the band would be moving ahead.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new printed monthly Vietnamese magazine specializing in mathematics will be published from January 2017. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The number of Japanese investors who want to develop agriculture and fishery projects in Vietnam is on the rise as more Vietnamese favor Japanese food items. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoa mai and hoa dao, one yellow and the other pink, are without doubt the two most important, auspicious flowers in Viet Nam.

 International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job on Monday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Figure Skating Championship wraps up today at the Vincom Ice Rink Thao Dien in HCM City.

 A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others in what Germany's interior minister said looked like an attack.