VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam won 10 gold, two silver and eight bronze medals to temporarily rank fourth at the 2015 ASEAN School Games at the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium, Brunei, yesterday Nov 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Australian embassy granted scholarships to 139 Vietnamese students for 2016 as part of the Australia Awards scholarship programme during a ceremony in Hanoi on November 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A hundred years of northern Thai Nguyen province tea culture will be showcased at Thai Nguyen Tea Festival which begins tonight (Nov 26) in downtown Thai Nguyen City.

 Fairy Land playground for HCMC kids, HCM City hosts Int'l Friendship Day, Hotels to switch on Christmas lights, Affordable art fair arrives in capital, Run for Heart 2015 charity race set to go, DJs from Hong Kong, Italy at Observatory

 VietNamNet Bridge – Xiem Can Temple in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu is listed among the most magnificent large-scale Khmer temples in southern Vietnam.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung will attend the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris from November 30-December 1 and pay working visits to Belgium and the EU on December 2.

 Four locations in Vietnam – Hanoi, Sapa and Hoi An towns, and Ha Long city – have been named among the 29 best places to visit in Southeast Asia, as selected by Touropia.

 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on November 25 commenced a preliminary hearing for two defendants involved in a major embezzlement scandal at the Agribank Financial Leasing Company No 2 (ALC II).

 Crane collapse traps several workers, Executives face trial on embezzlement charges, Ca Mau waterway accident kills two, injures seven, Thai vessel caught selling contraband oil to fishing boat, ASEAN journalists to meet in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - This is the most special “market” in Saigon, where buyers and sellers exchange through a fence of more than 2m high.

While foreign finance institutions believe that Vietnamese bank shares prices are the most expensive in frontier markets, Vietnamese shareholders are distressed that bank share prices have not increased as expected.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 65 events are planned for the National Tourism Year 2016 in Kien Giang Province and other parts of the country next year, but only some of the events are new.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 73, artisan Vo Van Tang is well known for his unique paintings created from the leaves of thot not (sugar palm trees).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vice Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong said authorities would not have a quota for the number of cars for services such as GrabTaxi and Uber, because of certain concerns.

TPP membership is expected to create strong foreign investment inflows into VN and result in business expansion. Learning from vibrant economic centers in the region, new forms of office premise leasing have appeared in major cities.

 A technical report and a map of regional tourism product development for Vietnam’s Central Coast have been launched by the European Union-funded Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Capacity Development Programme (EU-ESRT).

 The HCM Stock Exchange is developing new sector indexes based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and will introduce them in the first quarter of next year.

 Switzerland has continuously attached significance to developing the bilateral relations with Vietnam, said Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Besides the fields of buckwheat flowers, there are many tourist attractions that visitors should not miss when they come to the rock plateau of Dong Van, in Ha Giang province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many shops do not use advertising signs or display commodities in HCM City but rather hang special signs on the sidewalk as a way to identify their goods and services.