Vietnam and the European Union (EU) have held their annual human rights dialogue in Brussels, exchanging viewpoints and sharing experience and good practices in promoting and protecting human rights.

 Oil prices fell on Wednesday following a reported rise in U.S. crude inventories and an estimate that OPEC may have produced more crude in November than previously thought, potentially undermining a planned output cut.

Vietnamese officials underlined the importance of border and territorial issues to relations between Vietnam and China at the two countries’ governmental-level negotiation on border and territory in Beijing, China, on December 12-13.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese customers will often order 10 or more products online, but then only pay for one item because of a late change they make to their order.  

 Book lovers’ week held in HCMC, Vietnam strives to provide primary health care to all people, HCMC leader prompts parking lot construction for Tan Son Nhat Airport, Robots upgrade surgery quality for Vietnamese

 Hospitality real estate continues to be the property market with the highest potential in 2016 and into 2017, a property analyst has forecasted.

 Hai Duong province has long been famous for Thanh Ha lichi, Ke Sat gac (baby jackfruit) dried pancake, and Thanh Mien Gai (black leaf cake). But Hai Duong green bean cake is its most famous specialty.

VietNamNet Bridge - The heads of the Ministry of Health had doubts that the producer Nanogen had made a special drug -- until they saw how it was made. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The implementation of a series of projects on the beach dunes near Hoi An will create challenges for Hoi An in its path for sustainable development.

Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will perform in Sweden in April, offering the singer a chance to give the lecture that is a requirement for getting the $870,000 prize. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese students and alumni of Harvard disagree with the book ‘Harvard 4:30am - Harvard University's Gift to Young People’ by Wei Xiuying, which says that excessive studying occurs, even at 4am.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese manufacturers have found it difficult getting a foothold in the cosmetics market, valued at VND15 trillion (nearly $700 million) with a high growth rate of 20 percent per annum.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Exports of high-tech goods with low added value put the country at the bottom of the smiling curve, according to a Fulbright Vietnam University report.

VietNamNet Bridge – Heart Beat Saigon, a HCMC-based group of DJs from different countries, will host its 4th birthday party at The Observatory in HCMC’s District 4, on December 16 from 9 p.m. onwards. 

 A TV programme broadcasted last week revealed that hundreds of people, including small children in Lo Son Commune, Hoa Binh Province, have to walk across an almost entirely destroyed bridge.

 Ho Chi Minh City has launched a new US$45 million fund to create a start-up ecosystem that aims to provide entrepreneurs the chance to successfully grow their business.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hoang Thien of Viet Nam has reached his best ranking of 1,426 in the world according to the latest release of the Association of Tennis Professionals on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese - American pianist child prodigy Evan Le will perform in HCM City on December 17 during his first visit to Viet Nam.

 Australia and Viet Nam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that provides a formal framework for the return of Vietnamese nationals with no legal right to be in Australia.

 A “Golden Tourism Week”, the third of its kind this year, will take place in the Hue relic site, a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage, in the central Thua Thien-Hue province from December 25-31.