VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s five-star hotels are expectedly hampered by a low occupancy rate due to an increasing supply in the sector.

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors at Thong Nhat General Hospital in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai Province have removed 165 broken needles from the left shoulder of a 30-year-old woman from Thong Nhat District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has lagged farther behind the rest of the world due to its outdated growth model and mindset, experts and economists told a forum held in Hanoi last week to review 30 years of reform in the country.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

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.

 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.

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.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 65 events are planned for the National Tourism Year 2016 in Kien Giang Province and other parts of the country next year, but only some of the events are new.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At the age of 73, artisan Vo Van Tang is well known for his unique paintings created from the leaves of thot not (sugar palm trees).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vice Minister of Transport Nguyen Hong Truong said authorities would not have a quota for the number of cars for services such as GrabTaxi and Uber, because of certain concerns.

 The HCM Stock Exchange is developing new sector indexes based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and will introduce them in the first quarter of next year.