VietNamNet Bridge – Choi Ki-ho of the Hong Kong team won the first stage of the ADC Tour of Viet Nam yesterday, Dec 17.  

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 US insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has raised $6.45 billion from the sale in Hong Kong of its final stake in AIA, marking its exit from the firm, the Asian insurer said Tuesday.

The total revenue of the Vietnamese household use porcelain market is estimated at 5.6 trillion dong. Meanwhile, domestic manufacturing workshops can hold just 30 percent of the market share.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung on December 17 described his Haitian counterpart Laurent Salvador Lamothe’s visit a milestone in the history of bilateral relations, providing fresh impetus for stronger future cooperation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed the Government eliminate 260 small-scale hydropower projects with a combined capacity of nearly 440MW from the national power development plan.

Like Hanoi, HCM City authorities soon realized the danger put before the pre-school education of the city, once the education socialization policy started.

A paradox has been existing in the labor market: a lot of university graduates cannot find jobs, while businesses still lack workers because the candidates cannot meet their requirements.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The nation's water resources are in danger of depletion and rising pollution levels, a problem with a potential for significant detrimental effects on socio-economic development.

Vietnamese e-commerce businesses, while calling for foreign investments in their businesses, keep a constant anxiety that the foreign partners would swallow them one day.

Commercial banks have been easing the lending interest rate, which has made the picture of the national economy brighter. However, the biggest problem still exists: it’s very difficult for businesses to access bank loans.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam on BBC has a rustic but fascinating beauty with rivers, mountains, sidewalk tea shops, street vendors and flows of motorbikes.

VietNamNet Bridge reviews the most outstanding sporting events of Vietnam in 2012.

Many employers lack funds for Tet bonuses; Auto, motorbike sellers; FDI disbursement to reach $10.5b; Booming e-commerce needs legal controls; Banks forced to revise targets; Low-rate plan to clear house stocks

 Dolphin-assisted therapy for children with mental disabilities has made a splash in the West, and China is now riding the experimental tide.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time, Vietnam will participate in the 2013 PyeongChang Special Olympics World Winter Games, to be hosted by the Republic of Korea (RoK) from January 29 to February 5 next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – With the difference in sex ratio at birth to 117 boys for every 100 girls, the central province of Quang Ngai is one of the 10 provinces and cities with the highest gender imbalance in Vietnam.

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VietNamNet Bridge – Celebrities who were born in the 90s are now not inferior to their senior in the competition to renew their beauty.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City administration should ban construction of bumulti-storeyed buildings in the city's core area to protect its architectural heritage, architects told a seminar late last week.