A widow in southern Kien Giang Province has spent nearly US$150,000 in an effort to save her only daughter's marriage from falling to pieces.

 VietNamNet Bridge – World-famous watchmaker Fossil has spent $260 million to acquire a manufacturing health monitor and analyzing devices firm called Misfit Wearables, run by a Vietnamese-born CEO.

 Vietnam has claimed two more silvers on the last day of competition at the World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Beautiful photos of the landscape and life of people in central Vietnam are on display at the Photo Exhibition of Binh Dinh - Quang Ngai - Phu Yen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In recent days, Facebook users in Vietnam have chatted a lot about some Vietnamese who posed as Islamic State (IS) militants on Facebook, including one who called himself Timur Zhunusov.

 The People's Committee of Di Linh District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong last week issued an ordinance that forbade the district's public officials to shop at the old Di Linh Market.

 About 150 amateur singers from all over the world will sing for joy at a Ha Noi Opera House concert slated for November 28.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and a Vietnamese delegation are due to leave Vietnam for Malaysia on November 20 to attend the 27th ASEAN Summit and related high-level meetings scheduled in the next two days in Kuala Lumpur.

 President Truong Tan Sang called on APEC member economies to heighten community-based efforts to minimise disaster risks, align efforts to ensure food security with climate change response.

 President Truong Tan Sang had bilateral meetings with leaders of some Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies in Manila, the Philippines, on November 19 on the fringe of the APEC Summit.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman have agreed on initiatives to further bilateral strategic partnership across politics, economics, national defence-security and labour.

 National Assembly deputies voted to approve the Law on Cyber Information Safety during their plenary session in Hanoi on November 19.

VietNamNet Bridge - The following is the translation of PM Nguyen Tan Dung’s article on untarnished Internet environment which was written to mark the first day Vietnam accessed the global Internet.

According to Forbes, as of November 16, 2015, Southeast Asia had a total of 70 people with assets of $1 billion or more. Vietnam has a sole representative Pham Nhat Vuong, Chairman of the Vingroup, with assets estimated at $1.8 billion.

Vietnam on Tuesday officially announced the national brand for the handicraft sector – Vietcraft Excellence – aiming to enhance the competitiveness.

 The banking sector has experienced dramatic changes this year but has more reform is needed, delegates heard at the Viet Nam Retail Banking Forum 2015 held yesterday in HCM City.

 Hanoians will have a chance to experience a truly Argentina week for the first time, Argentinean Ambassador to Vietnam Claudio Gutierrez told reporters on November 18.

 President Truong Tan Sang will pay a State visit to Germany from November 24-26 at the invitation of his German counterpart Joachim Gauck.

 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic Milan Stech continued his official visit to Vietnam with a tour to the central province of Quang Nam on November 18.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After the golden age of the real estate market in 2007-2008, many half-built buildings worth hundreds of millions of USD have appeared in Saigon.