VietNamNet Bridge – Many questions have recently surfaced over a lot of macroeconomic issues in Vietnam, especially the use of official development assistance, the country’s rising public debt, and institutional changes among others.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the third night of Vietnam International Fashion Week in HCM City, Vietnamese designer Le Thanh Hoa debuted the collection "Flowers", which was inspired by the image of the swan.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam National Administration of Tourism announced a stimulus program for domestic tours in an effort to offset the falling number of international arrivals in the last six months.

The Government still targets a GDP growth rate of 5.8% this year though economic challenges remain. Ha Quang Tuyen, head of the System of National Accounts Department, talks about factors that will help the Government obtain the goal. Excerpts:

Vietnam Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2015 will be held at Vietnam Television's studio S14 in Hanoi from December 7-10, offering a useful playground for young talents in the fashion industry to improve their skills.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ban Gioc is the most beautiful waterfall in Vietnam, the largest waterfall in Southeast Asia and the world fourth largest cross-border waterfall.

 Uber Technologies Inc. will expand its presence to other cities in Vietnam while the online car-booking company is facing accusations of illegal taxi service and tax evasion in this market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sugi Ryotaro, Viet Nam-Japan special ambassador, has been recognised as an honorary citizen of Ha Noi for helping develop co-operative relations between the two countries in the past 20 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ngo Dung traded his lucrative business career for the unique joys of hunting down antique clocks.

Vietnam spends a great deal of money every year to treat scrap paper and to import scrap paper for domestic pulp and paper production. The huge domestic resource of scrap paper is being wasted, and it is also causing major environmental problems.

 U23 Vietnam will face the U23 teams of Japan, Malaysia and Macau at the Group I qualifying round of the 2016 Asian U23 Football Championships.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A farmer in Da Lat City has successfully cultivated “clean strawberries” by using an electric current to kill insects.

An exhibition on truc chi art themed “Truc Chi - Symbiotic - Return” is taking place at Sao La Gallery in HCMC’s District 1 until next Tuesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Raising wild animals for fun or profit has become a hobby of wealthy Vietnamese businessmen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – If the head of a public sector office fails to perform assigned duties, he/she may be transferred to another position, Tran Anh Tuan, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs tells Nguoi Lao dong (The Labourer).

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has handed over a detailed map of the areas prone to landslides and flash floods

 VietNamNet Bridge – On a cool autumn day, my friend and I were lucky enough to visit Ma Pi Leng Pass, considered the king of all passes in Viet Nam, which locates in Meo Vac District in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

 US Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom has affirmed that her country wishes to further promote its comprehensive partnership with Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This is a 200-year-old skeleton with a length of 22m and a weight of 65 tons at Van Thuy Tu Temple in Phan Thiet City of Binh Thuan Province.

The Government has approved a master plan for iron ore exploration to 2020 with a view to 2030, which aims at ensuring the industry’s sustainable development while meeting to the maximum demand of the domestic metallurgical sector.