VietNamNet Bridge – In Vietnam, the end of year is a holiday season.  Below are the suggested locations for tourists who intend to go on a tour on this occasion.

 West Africa's Ebola crisis is likely to last until the end of 2015, says a leading researcher who helped to discover the virus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will reach US$7.9 billion in the value of seafood exports for 2014 due to high growth in key products.

 The National Assembly’s Party committee on December 25 conduct the vote of confidence on its 57 members.

 President Truong Tan Sang’s State visit to Cambodia on December 23-24 holds a significant importance to the development of the two countries’ relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son told the press after the visit.

 Christmas festive atmosphere is trickling into every corner of the country, with Catholics and Protestants holding a range of festivities in celebration of the holiday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The proposals by general schools to use foreign textbooks has been refused by the watchdog agency, even though imported foreign textbooks are popular in tertiary education in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The biggest barrier Uber faces in Vietnam is not the possibility of a legal ban, as predicted, but the uncooperative attitude of taxi alliances and the indifference of Hanoians.

More than 30 houses in Phu Dong Ward in Tuy Hoa City of Phu Yen province, in central Vietnam, collapsed and were damaged when the tides ros on Tuesday. Dozens of other houses in the neighboring province of Khanh Hoa were also affected.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi-based FC has approached Vietnamese-American football star Lee Nguyen to invite him to return to play in the V-League 2015. 

 Hong Kong police have appealed to the public to return millions of dollars taken after a van transporting HK$525m ($68m; £44m) crashed on a major road.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Insurance Corporation (Bao Viet) has a new Chairman, Deputy Chairman and two members of the Board of Directors.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With the support of Japanese scientists, Vietnam has discovered the largest volcano cave system in Southeast Asia with a length of 25 km in Dak Nong province, in the Central Highlands.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi authorities have asked the Hanoi Transport Corporation (Transerco) to consider launching some bus routes exclusively for female passengers to help prevent sexual harassment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The city will not pay millions of US dollars to build 35 monuments, a proposal made by several experts at a seminar, an official said on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – A boy in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Nong died at a hospital on Tuesday after being attacked by a 40-year-old elephant of a circus troupe.

Christians from across the world have gathered in the West Bank town of Bethlehem to mark Christmas Eve in the place they believe Jesus was born. 

Vietnam congratulates new Japanese leaders; President meets overseas Vietnamese in Cambodia; Vietnam, Laos strengthen court cooperation; President meets Cambodia’s Great Supreme Patriarchs

 Vietnam and Cambodia issued a joint statement on the conclusion of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang’s official visit to Cambodia from December 23-24 at the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Agricultural officials from 13 provinces in the Mekong Delta expressed their deep concern about Laos’ proposed hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River,