VietNamNet Bridge - A father took his Down-syndrome son to a bench on the Hoan Kiem lakeshore and fed him an ice-cream.

 Domestic steel exporters are worrying about losing export markets in ASEAN as more countries have initiated dumping investigations on imports from Vietnam, Tuoi Tre newspaper has reported.

 President Truong Tan Sang affirmed that Vietnam attaches importance to developing all-around relations with France as one of its top partners during his meeting with French President Francois Hollande, on the sidelines of the UN Summit in New York.

 A photo of terraced rice fields by photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh has been named among the top photographs in the evaluation round of the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest. 

 The “Nghinh Ong” , or whale worshiping festival, was launched on September 28 (August 16 in the Lunar Calendar) in Vung Tau city, the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The best books of 2015 were announced at the Good Books Awards, held in HCM City on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam beat Hong Kong 3-1 in their first Group G match, East zone, of the Asian Football Confederation U-19 Championship qualifier yesterday (Sept 28) in Myanmar.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival, brought by Tiep Thi Gia Dinh magazine, is coming to Viet Nam this autumn for the first time.

Vietnam’s derivative market is set be launched in late 2016, according to the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX). 

 As many as 68,000 new enterprises were established in the first nine months of this year with a total capital of 420 trillion VND (18.06 billion USD), a year-on-year rise of 28.5 percent and 31.4 percent, respectively.

 A number of Vietnam Airlines flights from Vietnam to Taiwan (China) have been adjusted due to typhoon Dujuan, announced the airline on September 29. 

 Trade unions representing seafarers in Asia at the recently-concluded 32nd Asian Seafarers Summit Meeting and the 24th Asian-Norway Seafarers Conference in Kyoto, Japan agreed to establish a hotline to support regional seamen in case of emergency. 

 Vietnam and Russia convened their eighth annual strategic dialogue in Saint Petersburg on September 28, discussing bilateral ties and regional and global issues of shared concern. 

 President Truong Tan Sang attended the United Nations Peace Keeping Summit held in New York on September 28 (New York time) as part of the ongoing 70th session of the UN General Assembly.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh have met with the Bulgarian and Danish Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the ongoing UN Summit in New York. 

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked for strengthened coordination to ensure the strict implementation of laws related to corruption prevention. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The bulk rice exports to the Philippines under the government-to-government market have not helped raise rice prices.

VietNamnet Bridge - A survey conducted by two postgraduates Pham Hiep and Huynh Huu Hien shows a breakthrough in research productivity made by young universities.

Twelve investors have registered to build factories which make unburned bricks from cinders generated by coal thermal power plants in Binh Thuan province. Coal cinder generators are also considering packaging cinders for export.

VietNamNet Bridge - The old apartment blocks in Hanoi have become fragile because of “bird cages” and “tiger cages,” which were built to expand apartments several square meters. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Among thousands of portraits and landscapes shot in Vietnam, the favorite photo of French photographer Rehahn Croquevielle is a portrait of Bui Thi Xong, a boat rower in the historic town of Hoi An.

  Textiles and garment industry expected to achieve double-digit growth after TPP is signed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Residents of Hue's Thuy Thanh Commune are taking advantage of the burgeoning tourism industry to improve their lives.

 The mystery of why some people appear to have healthy lungs despite a lifetime of smoking has been explained by UK scientists.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world still doesn’t know Vietnamese trained in vocational schools are doing.