MC Haha of the hit television series – ‘Running Man’ and female singer Baek Ji Young will arrive in Vietnam on November 28 to attend the Korea-Vietnam Food and Culture Festival taking place at My Dinh  National Stadium in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of households in southern Ben Tre Province are unsafe, as they are located in landslide-prone areas, the provincial authority has said.

Six films, three photo exhibitions, three conferences and three activities related to the issue of climate change will be held in HCM City and Ha Noi to accompany the COP21 International Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris.

HCM City Medicine and Pharmacy University and the University Hospital have recently presented an honorary doctorate to Erich Johann LeJeune, President of the German ‘Heart for Heart’ Foundation.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has once again tried to reform the high school examination and has, once again, met with dissatisfaction from students and teachers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Office-tel developments, which combine residential and commercial uses in one apartment, are mushrooming in HCM City and are expected to lead the market in future.

 Many of the top 30 companies by market capitalisation on the HCM Stock Exchange have reported mixed nine-month earnings, according to their latest financial statements.

  China’s Taiwan is piloting a preferential visa policy for high-end tour groups from Vietnam as well as those from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and India with the aim of increasing tourist arrivals, according to local press.

 The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on November 17 announced the ‘Vietnam Annual Tourism Report 2014’ for the first time.

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A choral concert “Sing For Joy – Vui Ca” will take place in Hanoi Opera House on November 28, featuring eight choirs with 150 members aged from 6-60 years old, from 15 countries all over the world.

 More flexible policies are needed to gradually restructure public debt and ensure debt safety, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung was speaking at the Q&A session of the 10th meeting of the 13th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 17.

 New Zealand Prime Minister John Phillip Key left Hanoi on November 17, concluding his four-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Volunteer students at Hoan Kiem Lake in Ha Noi have learned, like the adventurous students in Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, that by helping tourists find their way, they are also expanding their own knowledge.

 The 27th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting wrapped up in Manila, the Philippines, on November 17 after two working days under the theme “Inclusive Growth through Sustainable and Resilient Communities”.

 A delegation of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations led by its Chairman Hoang Binh Quan paid a working visit to Egypt from November 16-17 to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.

 The Czech Republic always regards the Vietnamese community as part of its people, President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Milan Stech told Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung during their meeting in Hanoi on November 17.

 The National Assembly (NA) continued its second day of Q&A sessions yesterday, with all cabinet members attending the event for the first time.

 Vietnam and the European Union (EU) boast substantial potential for cooperation, especially after the two officially sign and realise the bilateral free trade agreement, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts forecast that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will bring about sweeping changes within the Vietnamese financial market, however, thorough preparation is needed to maximize potential benefits.