VietNamNet Bridge – Pop star Ho Quynh Huong has become the third Vietnamese to win the "Asian Artist of the Year" title at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many general schools in Hanoi recognized as meeting national standards could lose their official status because of increase in the number of enrolled students.

VietNamNet Bridge – Director Nguyen Hoang Diep was so excited to receive an award at the 36th Film Festival of the Three Continents (France) that she sang instead of giving an acceptance speech.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A private company has begun to chop down and remove about 200 trees on Kim Ma and Nguyen Thai Hoc streets in the capital city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website, has named the central coastal city of Danang as a top destination on the rise in Asia and the world.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Chow Tai Fook Enterprises has said that it is ready to invest $4 billion in a casino project in Quang Nam, a province in central Vietnam.

Government agencies still cannot come to an agreement about the legitimacy of Uber, a taxi app, in Vietnam. While it has been facing strong protests from traditional taxi firms, it has been welcomed by the public and netizens.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is likely to spend US$1.5 billion on auto imports for the entire 2014, the highest level so far in Viet Nam's history.

 The three founders of Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement have turned themselves in to police over their role in pro-democracy demonstrations.

 World chess masters Le Quang Liem and Hoang Thi Thanh Trang have failed to lift trophies at the National Sports Games.

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 A court is to decide whether two Burmese men will stand trial for the murder of two British tourists in Thailand earlier this year.

 The People’s Committee of the central province of Quang Tri held a meeting on December 2 to discuss ways to accelerate the implementation of the “one-stop shop” model at its international border gate Lao Bao and the Lao counterpart Densavan.

 The People’s Court of Bien Hoa city in the southern province of Dong Nai on December 3 sentenced six men from 1 to 2 years and a half in prison for “causing social disturbances” in local industrial zones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Television (VTV) has stopped airing American series "Sex and the City" on VTV2 channel and changed the time for adult movies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company (MobiFone) has officially become MobiFone Telecom Corporation under the Ministry of Information & Communications’ decision.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), only one-third of the labor force in Vietnam works in the formal sector and workers in the banking, technology, and real estate earn the highest pay.

VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the suburbs of HCM City have lost their livelihood because their cultivation land has been poisoned by industrial waste from nearby industrial zones.

Vietnam is preparing to publish a White Paper showing a policy of peace, independence, and transparency in military construction, said Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh on December 2.

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