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AFF Cup 2016: Vietnam win first victory over hosts Myanmar

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh’s 50th goal for the national team secured a 2-1 win for Viet Nam over hosts Myanmar in the ASEAN Football Federation’s Group B second match yesterday in Yangon.

The bitter plague of sugar smuggling from Cambodia

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bags of sugar made in Thailand are piled along Viet Nam’s border, ready to be carried across by boats to waiting Vietnamese motorbike drivers.

Buying apartments for lease: hot investment channel in 2017

VietNamNet Bridge - The attractive profits from leasing and property price increases attract investors to buy apartments for lease. The trend has been growing in the last two years.

Myanmar health authorities struggle to prepare for Zika outbreak

 Myanmar is largely unprepared for an outbreak of Zika, experts say, with the health ministry slashing anti-virus measures due to lack of funds, overworked doctors skipping check-ups

B-52 Victory Museum - The pride of Vietnamese

VietNamNet Bridge - The B-52 Victory museum illustrates the victory of Hanoi people over the US B-52 air raid in late December 1972. 

HCM City to relocate 20,000 slum residents

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities plan to relocate people living in 20,000 houses in slums along canals and rivers by 2020.

Five million lack toilets in VN

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only about 65 per cent of rural households in Viet Nam have standard toilets,

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 21/11

 Chinese importers survey An Giang’s rice market, Airlines talk facilitating transport, Wood consumption to rise by 10%, Vietnamese banks urged to go digital, TPP leaders promise efforts to implement deal

VN to miss 2016 export target

 Viet Nam is unlikely to meet the 10 per cent export growth target for this year, said Minister of Industry and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh.

Do small eco-friendly steps go far enough?

 VietNamNet Bridge – One October day, one of Ha Noi’s air monitoring stations showed that air pollution had reached dangerous levels.

Viet Village Heritage Club for history buffs

 Amidst Hanoi’s urban buzz, members of the Viet Village Heritage Club have found peace of mind, contemplating Vietnam’s traditional aspects.

Social News 21/11

 Rhino horn smuggling case busted in HCM City, Vietnamese expats in Malaysia updated with East Sea issue, Deputy PM vows to support IFRC’s operations in Vietnam, More than 3,000 applicants set for Korean language exams

After initial Trump trade, politics keep stocks on edge

 Arguing over politics is a Thanksgiving Day tradition, but Donald Trump's presidential election adds a new twist to any bickering at next week's holiday dinner table: What the new U.S. government could mean for your stock portfolio.

Industry Ministry insists on developing more steel projects

When Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh denied there were special group interests in licensing the Ca Na steel complex project, the ministry’s website showed information that indicated support for large-scale steel projects.

India train derails, at least 119 killed, more than 150 injured

 At least 119 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an Indian express train derailed in northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, with the toll set to rise amid a scramble to locate survivors.

Merkel says she will seek fourth term as German chancellor

Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she wants to run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year's election, a sign of stability after Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president.

France's Fillon wins top spot in conservative primary, Sarkozy out

 French voters defied expectations on Sunday by throwing ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy out of the race to be the conservatives' nominee for the presidential election and propelling his ex-prime minister Francois Fillon to top spot.

Office workers and students by day, good samaritans at night

VietNamNet Bridge – Office workers and students by day, good samaritans at nightEarlier this week, at 10:30pm, a motorcyclist stranded on National Highway 51 called Team 177’s phone number.

New prodigy appears at ‘Road to Olympia’

Able to read at 18 months and winner of many competitions, Phan Dang Nhat Minh is excelling at the ongoing 17th ‘Road to Olympia’.

Where nature works its magic on you

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tra Su cajeput forest offers a captivating respite from urban madness, Bui Quynh Hoa finds.