VietNamNet Bridge – On the evening of December 4, a 16m piece of the dike in Thu Duc District, HCM City was broken when the flood tide was surging. Water overflowed into hundreds of houses in the area.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The SEA Games Athletes Village is located in the newly-developed area in the northwest region of Myanmar’s capital city--Nay Pyi Taw, so athletes will have to face an unexpected problem: mosquitos.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam ranked 116 out of 177 countries and territories with the same score as last year: 31/100 (0 indicates high level of corruption and 100 is very clean).

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi ranks eighth in TripAdvisor’s Top 10 destinations on the rise in the world, which was released early this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The head of the Vietnam’s sports delegation to the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games has chosen swimmer Hoang Quy Phuoc as the national-flag holder for the delegation at the opening ceremony of the 2013 SEA Games.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lacking capital, and eager for foreign investment capital, joining deeply into the international trade and using cash in payment, Vietnam has become the aiming point of the international finance criminals.

 VietNamNet Bridge - A ceremony to inaugurate the statue of King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong was held at Yen Tu historical site in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The nation's tourism industry will be promoted strongly on social networks, smart phones and the internet under the National Tourism Promotion Programme for 2013-20

 "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker died from 'traumatic and thermal injuries" in a fiery car crash, coroners said, fueling suggestions he may have survived the initial impact.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Business owners have expressed their worry that the long 9-day Tet holiday would upset their production plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam should use a lower frequency when developing 3G infrastructure to reduce costs as well as to increase the 3G broadband infrastructure,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The famous American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson opened its first showroom in Vietnam last weekend.

Spain is willing to share its experience in UN peacekeeping activities and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and support Vietnam in these fields.  

 The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has given the nod to localities wanting to temporarily use sections of pavements and roadways for parking lots until 2023.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A target of five gold medals has been set for Viet Nam's taekwondo team at the Myanmar SEA Games, but this could prove to be a tough task without their strongest members.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese, wherever they live in the world, have been learning Vietnamese language everyday to uphold and promote the national culture identity. However, they meet a lot of difficulties in the study.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of countries in the world have offered attractive preferences in administrative procedures and tour fee discounts to lure Vietnamese travelers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Minh Tuan, creative director of a campaign to popularize the use of condoms – “Condom Project” – has been recognized for his fashion collection made from 25,000 condoms by the Vietnam Guinness Book of Records.

 VietNamNet Bridge – GDP growth in Vietnam will rise modestly to 5.5% by 2015, with macroeconomic stability largely restored, according to the World Bank’s latest report.