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Livestock farmers face bankruptcy

 VietNamNet Bridge – The livestock industry is in a critical situation with many farms facing bankruptcy but unable to get access to the Government's financial support package.

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 6/11

 Hanoi hosts exhibition on French press media; Aspiring Einsteins learn science is no fiction; Student dancing to bring focus on AIDS; Exhibition to tell Vietnamese history in Japan

Obama, Romney face voters on US election day

 Americans Tuesday decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney to restore prosperity, in a close fought vote unlikely to heal a polarized nation.

Million USD ships are dying

VietNamNet Bridge – The owners of these ships cannot lease or sell them. The million-USD ships are becoming piles of scraps at private wharves across northern provinces.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 6/11

  Poor-quality bottled water sold to HCM City schools; World Harmony Run-Vietnam 2012 launched; ADB to fund HIV fight in Laos, VN; Man receives death sentence for murder

The town with 200 women marrying foreign men

VietNamNet Bridge – Using many tricks, a match-making group lured hundreds of poor girls in a coastal town of Soc Trang province to marry foreign men. Ten women returned home because they could not stand the wretched life abroad.

Airlines get ready for Tet rush

VietNamNet Bridge – With three months to go for Tet (Lunar New Year), the most important festival of the year in Viet Nam, all domestic carriers are getting ready for the peak travel season.

Assets of banks “evaporate”

 VietNamNet Bridge - In September, the total assets of state-owned banks fell from VND2,075 trillion ($103.75 billion) at the end of August to VND2,069 trillion ($103.45 billion).

Apple sells 3 mn iPads in new launch

 Apple said Monday it sold three million iPads in the first three days of its launch of the iPad mini and fourth-generation model of its original format iPad.

Tuan albums jazz up folk with improve style

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Manh Tuan, a popular saxophonist among jazz fans, has released two albums that blend jazz, pop, folk and new-age music.

Vietnam withdraws Korean noodles from the market

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Food Safety Agency has decided to withdraw two Korean instant noodle products, which contain benzopyrene, the toxic causing skin and lung cancers, from the market.

Draft law lays foundations for capital's future

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday, Nov 5, agreed that the promulgation of a law covering the development of greater Ha Noi, known as the Capital Law, would create a solid legal foundation

VTV gets TV rights for AFF Cup 2012

 VietNamNet Bridge – The national television broadcaster VTV has purchased the broadcasting right of the AFF Cup, two weeks before the tournament.

Three divas to sing for free on the street

VietNamNet Bridge - Three pop divas – Hong Nhung, Thanh Lam, My Linh - and two sopranos Ha Pham Thang Long and Hong Vy will take turns performing on the street in the next 5 weeks.

Foreign brands’ rapid expansion awakens Vietnamese plastics producers

VietNamNet Bridge – The plastics export turnover is just equal to 1/3 of the material import turnover in 2011, estimated at 4 billion dollars.

Many still homeless after devastating storm

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Xuan, 63, knelt down crying when she saw the entire roof of her house blown away during the recent Storm Son Tinh. Xuan's home province, Nam Dinh, was among the worst hit in the Hong River Delta

Boy invents kidnapping story to 'trick' the police

 VietNamNet Bridge – The boy fabricated the story that he was kidnapped in Moc Chau, Son La province and were taken to Hanoi by the kidnappers, making policemen be in a whirl with his movie-like story.

HCM City police arrest robber in video clip

VietNamNet Bridge - From a video clip that was posted on Youtube on September 25, featuring a robbery at the foot of Nguyen Huu Canh flyover, leading up to the Saigon Bridge, a robber has been arrested.

VFF promotes local league talent

The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) hopes to announce the fixtures draw for the national football leagues on December 15, and put a cap on the number of foreign players permitted for each team for the new season.

Merkel to Brussels, London amid thorny EU debate

 Amid wrangling over the EU's budget, German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to London on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron after first outlining her views on the bloc's future in Brussels.