VietNamNet Bridge – Buckwheat, a plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds, which are used as a kind of food, creates striking sights when it is in blossom,

Six hundred students in Huong Binh Commune of Huong Khe district in the central province of Ha Tinh have stayed at home for several months, as their parents and local authorities still cannot agree about school restructuring.

VietNamNet Bridge – Journalist Truong Uyen Ly said at a ceremony on Wednesday that the creative scene is developing far beyond her expectations.

 Vietnamese forward Nguyen Van Quyet has been selected as the Southeast Asia Player of the Week by the Malaysian edition of goal.com.

 Moody's Investors Service raised the outlook on Vietnam's banking system to stable from a negative assessment, noting a stable business climate, improved macro-economic situation and easing liquidity stress.

 Le Tri Tinh, who was in charge of a working shift during which a first-ever power outage occurred at Tan Son Nhat airport, was arrested on December 11 for further investigations on violation of traffic safety regulations.

 The Central and Central Highlands Flood and Storm Prevention Centre had warned over 35,000 fishing vessels of the impending Storm Hagupit in the coastal provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa and Ninh Thuan as of yesterday.

 Passengers are finding it difficult to buy train tickets for the upcoming Tet holidays despite improvements in online booking services.

 Twenty-five Vietnamese workers are currently stuck in Saudi Arabia because they lack work permits or the financial means to leave the country, according to Ly Thai Hai, chairman of the Bac Kan People's Committee.

 Foreigners with working permits or professional licenses granted by Vietnamese authorised agencies will be required to join Vietnam’s social insurance, according to the new Law on Social Insurance announced by the Presidential Office on December 11.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Some low-cost smartphone and tablet models sold in Vietnam and several Asian and African countries are believed to contain a Trojan sourced from China which operates under certain conditions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam suffered a nightmare yesterday (Dec 11) at My Dinh Stadium in Ha Noi as they were knocked out of the ASEAN Football Federation-Suzuki Cup.

 Vietnam will become an important link of a vast economic connectivity network with 55 partners, including 15 members of the G-20, bringing a wealth of cooperation and investment opportunities to foreign investors, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

 German scholars strongly criticised China’s recent moves in the East Sea (Bien Dong Sea) at a scientific conference held at the headquarters of Die Tageszeitung (TAZ) newspaper in Berlin on December 9.

Vietnam resolutely rejects China’s claim over Hoang Sa (Paracel), Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes and contiguous waters, as well as its “historical rights” to the waters, seabed and subsoil within the “nine-dash line” it unilaterally introduced. 

“As we look toward the 20th anniversary of normalized relations, we have a unique opportunity to deepen our comprehensive partnership in ways that will make it last,” said new US Ambassador to Vietnam at a swearing-in ceremony in Washington DC.

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal logging in the Hoang Lien – Van Ban national sanctuary in the north is now being conducted underground after local authorities launched campaigns to track down the criminals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – By ratifying the revised Housing Law, allowing foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam, the National Assembly has helped the rich in Vietnam, which will in turn receive big benefits.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of all the feudal monuments and sites that visitors to Hue get to enjoy, the most prominent and familiar ones are those that reflect the glory of the Nguyen Dynasty