Vietnam’s trade deficit continued to broaden in the eight months leading up to September, adding to growing concerns over weakening domestic demand for home-grown goods and services.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Comedy enthusiasts in HCM City have never had it so good, with 45 comedic stage troupes performing three shows a week and spoiling them for choice.

VietNamNet Bridge - While the number of general school students has risen dramatically in HCM City this year, the city has no more land to build schools and has been unable to employ more teachers.

VietNamNet Bridge - Van Mon craft village in Bac Ninh province has been well known in Vietnam as an aluminum recycling village for 50n years. It became even better known recently as a “cancer village”. 

VietNamNet Bridge – A young Vietnamese couple who are workers with a joint monthly income of VND 8.9 million have become social media stars after they revealed how far they have to stretch their earnings to get by.  

The representative of Kazan Helicopters, the only Russian helicopter manufacturer, has said that Vietnam is a potential market despite decreased demand in recent years. 

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 VietNamNet Bridge – A concert hosted by the HCMC Ballet, Symphony, Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will feature a recent music work and another for dancing by Vietnamese artists at the City Opera House in District 1 at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

VietinBank, one of Vietnam’s largest commercial banks, is considering raising the foreign ownership ratio to 40 percent. If the bank’s proposal is approved, it will be the first bank with a foreign ownership of over 20 percent.

 China's imports in August fell 14.3% in yuan-denominated terms from a year ago, while exports fell by 6.1%.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Son La Provincial Party Committee has passed a draft document for the VND1.400 trillion ($64 million) project to build a statue of President Ho Chi Minh and supporting works.

 A 24-year-old Australian exchange student has fallen to her death from a spectacular Norway cliff popular with photographers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many major roads in Hanoi such as Quan Thanh, Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Lieu Giai, Hoang Hoa Tham were flooded and in traffic chaos after the early-morning heavy rains at 6am today.

The mansion of Hua Bon Hoa, a tycoon in Saigon in the early 20th century, has up to 99 doors. It is considered a unique architectural work, representing an exchange of culture between the East and West.

VietNamNet Bridge - Import/export companies are complaining about legal procedures requiring inspection of their products that cost them hundreds of millions or billions of dong.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Public Security has opened a criminal investigation on two rings that protected overloaded trucks in southern Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - You can explore the roads of many barbeque restaurants in Saigon, such as Pham Van Dong in Go Vap district or Trung Son in District 8.

VietNamNet Bridge – As the traffic light system on some northeastern roads of HCM City on Sept 7 did not work properly, traffic chaos occurred for hours on many roads Monday morning.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Travelling nearly 2,000 km, the heart and liver of a dead person in HCM City were successfully transplanted in two patients in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A woman had to be rushed to the hospital after a tiger a tiger bit her arm at the Trai Bo ecological tourism complex, run by the family of Le Thanh Than, owner of a luxury-hotel chain in Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of kilograms of dead fish were brought to the headquarters of the People's Committee in coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, in a protest against river pollution yesterday morning (Sept 7).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Oanh won a gold medal in the women's 100m event at the Thai Open Track and Field Championships that started on Sunday.

Modelling agency BeU Models will hold an audition under the eyes of some top fashion experts from Singapore at the Le Meridien hotel in HCM City to choose models for the 2015 Vietnam International Fashion Week in mid-October.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Long City will host the Miss Tourism International 2015 beauty pageant from November 10 to 30.

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