VietNamNet Bridge – Le Cong Vinh’s 50th goal for the national team secured a 2-1 win for Viet Nam over hosts Myanmar in the ASEAN Football Federation’s Group B second match yesterday in Yangon.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bags of sugar made in Thailand are piled along Viet Nam’s border, ready to be carried across by boats to waiting Vietnamese motorbike drivers.

VietNamNet Bridge - The attractive profits from leasing and property price increases attract investors to buy apartments for lease. The trend has been growing in the last two years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities plan to relocate people living in 20,000 houses in slums along canals and rivers by 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only about 65 per cent of rural households in Viet Nam have standard toilets,

 Viet Nam is unlikely to meet the 10 per cent export growth target for this year, said Minister of Industry and Trade, Tran Tuan Anh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One October day, one of Ha Noi’s air monitoring stations showed that air pollution had reached dangerous levels.

When Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh denied there were special group interests in licensing the Ca Na steel complex project, the ministry’s website showed information that indicated support for large-scale steel projects.

VietNamNet Bridge – Office workers and students by day, good samaritans at nightEarlier this week, at 10:30pm, a motorcyclist stranded on National Highway 51 called Team 177’s phone number.

Able to read at 18 months and winner of many competitions, Phan Dang Nhat Minh is excelling at the ongoing 17th ‘Road to Olympia’.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Tra Su cajeput forest offers a captivating respite from urban madness, Bui Quynh Hoa finds.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese spent more than VND600 billion in one week to buy iPhone 7s, far more than for Galaxy Note 7. 

An attractive market with a forecast growth rate of no less than 10 percent and weak Vietnamese enterprises are why foreign investors in the packaging industry have entered the Vietnamese market.

VietNamNet Bridge - The terms  ‘green works’, ‘green architecture’, ‘green cities’ and ‘green energy’ are now commonly used in Vietnam, but the practices are not applied widely. 

The Japan Foundation’s travelling pottery exhibition entitled – The Rising Generation from Traditional Japanese Kilns – has opened at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi.

Hau dong, or "going into trance" ceremony, is a ritual of spirit mediumship practiced among followers of Dao Mau. Captured by its artistic elements, New York based photographer Tewfic El-Sawy spent 2 years to do a photo project about this.

 Vietnam has some of the best university-based teacher training programs in the world, said Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hien of the Ministry of Education of Training at a recent forum in Hanoi.

 Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, and asset management firm VinaCapital has announced the establishment of a joint venture spanning over development, acquisitions, and operation in the hospitality industry across Southeast Asia.

 The Egyptian Nile TV Channel featured Vietnam’s world heritage sites and cultural celebrities recognised by UNESCO in its 30-minute live coverage on November 19. 

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang attended a dialogue and a group meeting with the APEC Forum’s Business Advisory Council (APAC) within the framework of the 24 th APEC High-level Week in Lima, Peru, on November 19.