VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has lagged farther behind the rest of the world due to its outdated growth model and mindset, experts and economists told a forum held in Hanoi last week to review 30 years of reform in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fall festival season has finally arrived and Heineken has four music concerts coming up in December in big cities across Vietnam that should appeal to a wide range of interests.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Security staff at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport are complaining about government cars that are blocking drop-off and collection points as they await officials.

Vietnam pursues the consistent policy of settling the dispute in the East Sea by peaceful means in line with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, said Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh.

Vietnam, EEU target further trade ties, Five key fruits developed in southern region, Businesses pushed to save energy, Vietnam urged to fight counterfeit goods, Mirae Asset now fully HK owned after takeover

Since its debut on the city stage in 2011, Nutcracker The ballet has become a popular early Christmas gift to audiences. This year, the show will take place at 8 p.m. at the Opera House in HCMC’s District 1 from November 27 to 29.

VietNamNet Bridge - Industrial zone (IZ) developers are now offering ready-made workshops and infrastructure items to attract more investors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A workshop was held on November 24 in Niagara Fall, Ontario, Canada to foster the cooperation in education between Vietnam and Canada.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thai Son Nam pocketed their third win in a row at the AFF Futsal Club Championship in Thailand yesterday.

 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.