VietNamNet Bridge – Producing lead from batteries has become a lucrative occupation for residents of Dong Mai Village. Yet few realise how seriously it is affecting children, 300 of whom currently suffer from lead poisoning,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 18-year-old winner of Project Runway 2014 returned impressively with a hi-tech collection on the last day of the Vietnam International Fashion Week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided to tighten control over medical training as experts have repeatedly rung the alarm bell over the quality of new medical school graduates.

 The Vietnam Record Centre (Vietking) has announced Top 10 famous bridges that attract domestic and foreign visitors and photographers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly has sent 48 recommendations of constituents to the State Bank of Vietnam, including complaints about the quality of polymer banknotes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The sharp falls in oil prices have not benefited the national economy, with the exception of Petrolimex, the petroleum importer and distributor.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The year-end sale season has not been as busy as in previous years, with many big sale campaigns in large cities attracting only window shoppers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's domain name ."vn" had the largest number of registrations among ASEAN countries' domain names as of September 2014,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Designers will premiere 1,000 of their latest creations during the Viet Nam Fashion Week Spring-Summer from Saturday (Dec 6) for one week.

 The Nghe An team won two gold medals in shuttlecock at the ongoing National Sports Games in the northern province of Nam Dinh yesterday.

Vietnam vows to make active and responsible contributions to the ASEAN-Republic of Korea dialogue relations at the commemorative summit marking the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-RoK Dialogue Relations, which will be held in Busan this week.

One Asia concert to feature Japanese, Vietnamese artists; Folk music playing and singing contest kicked off; Concerts mark 25 years of ASEAN-RoK dialogue; InterContinental wins award; Convention a hit for Vietnamese comic lovers

 The first phase of Viet-Pan Techno Park, a Vietnamese-Japanese technology development area, was inaugurated on three hectares at Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park in HCMC’s Nha Be District last Friday.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has recently issued Circular 47/2014/TT-BTC on management of e-commerce websites.

 Three Japanese enterprises jointly invested in the Sendo Joint Stock Company, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, recently to get a 33 per cent stake in it.

 The world's leading wind energy company Vestas Wind Systems from Denmark yesterday said that it saw huge potential for windpower development in Viet Nam and promised to help the country make wind a sustainable energy solution.

  Foreign NGOs pledged to carry out 261 charity programmes and development projects with a total budget of over 200 million USD in the next three years in mountainous and ethnic minority areas at a conference on December 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many residential areas in districts 1,3,5,6 and Binh Thanh are expected to implement waste classification at each household on a trial basis from this month with funding from State budget.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore has vowed to work closely with relevant agencies to bring home the body of sailor Tran Duc Dat who was shot dead by pirates off Singapore’s coast in the early morning of December 7.

 Car drivers can now fuel their vehicles themselves, as part of a pilot project that began at two filling stations in Hanoi on December 1.