VietNamNet Bridge – After a year of taking the country's music by storm, four pop bands in Ha Noi and HCM City are becoming new music icons for many young people.

UMA nation's top furniture retailer; Five VN firms in ASEAN 100 list; HCM City failing to meet SOE equitisation goal; Investors buy still-unfinished apartments; CPI falls on lower transport costs;

 VietNamNet Bridge – The World Records University has offered an Honorary Doctorate degree to two Vietnamese record-holders.

 On November 24, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visited Zarubezhneft – one of Russia’s leading groups in the oil and gas industry as part of his ongoing visit to the Russian Federation.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung suggested key measures to expand the development triangle cooperation area at the eighth Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle Summit taking place in Vientiane, Laos on November 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 200 e-commerce companies have registered to take part in the first online Black Friday, scheduled on December 5, said the Secretary General of the Vietnam E-Commerce Association.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s first ever film project market is taking place in Hanoi on November 24 and 25 as part of activities of the third Hanoi International Film Festival 2014.

 Urban agriculture is playing an increasingly important role in global food security, a study has suggested.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies have expressed their concern about the dominance of foreign retailers in the domestic retail market, but the Ministry of Industry and Trade disagrees with their sentiments.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Two houses and a piece of land in the southern province of Ben Tre, two houses in HCM City and a public house in Hanoi, all related to Mr. Tran Van Truyen, former chief government inspector, are being investigated.

SBC Medical Group on November 23 opened a modern centre providing the finest in care and support for patients before, during and after plastic surgery procedures in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has slipped two places to 20th in world rankings after failing in the first round of China Open.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings) has announced the top 10 spiritual destinations that attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Wealth-X and the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) have published a report on people in the world in 2014 with assets of at least over $30 million. Vietnam has 210 representatives with total assets of $20 billion.

Pham My Linh has withdrawn from Miss Vietnam 2014 after she was accused of having had a nose job.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The lifting of restrictions on foreigners from owning property in Viet Nam will benefit the country, experts said.

Three officials of the Southern Air Traffic Management Company have been suspended from work for 15 days pending an investigation into the technical incident occurring at the Tan Son Nhat Airport on November 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed two plans for the 2015 Lunar New Year holiday to the Prime Minister, with 7 or 9 days off.

 The falling oil price is costing Russia up to $100bn a year, while Western sanctions have hit the country by $40bn, its finance minister has said.

An oil painting by 20th century painter Le Pho have been sold for HK$6.52 million (US$840,000) in Hong Kong recently, setting an auction record for a Vietnamese artist at Christie’s International.