VietNamNet Bridge – Lawmakers at the sixth session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) yesterday agreed that some articles in the draft Emulation and Reward Law for Government workers should be standardised.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have warned that Vietnam may become the place for foreign investors to export backward petrochemical technologies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will consider naming two roads after General Vo Nguyen Giap and Chairman of the State Council Vo Chi Cong at its People’s Council meeting this year’s end.

While the General Department of Customs reported sharp fall in the rice export turnover in January-September of 2013, the Vietnam Food Association said Vietnam has no more rice to export.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the country's three biggest mobile operators hiking their 3G (third generation network) usage price, the fourth largest firm Vietnamobile has said it will not follow the trend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2013. Compared with the second quarter, the growth is 0.5 percent higher.

 Infants who were bottle fed were more likely to be at risk of developing hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, a form of stomach obstruction, than those who were breastfed,

 Customs officials in the northern port city of Hai Phong have seized about 2.4 tonnes of elephant tusks smuggled from Malaysia.

 VN retail boosted by foreign support; Hi-tech urban complex to bridge border; Auto giants choose to steer clear of national motor show; Mobile users resent huge 3G fee hike

VietNamNet Bridge – Local experts during a meeting on Wednesday said that the transfer of ailing State-owned enterprises to other sound SOEs will only see problems of the enterprises spreading widely instead of giving the firms proper therapy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of the Hanoi T&T FC has confirmed that striker Samson has officially become a Vietnamese citizen from October 2013 under the name Ha Noi Son.

Highway 45, the section crossing Van Ha town, Thanh Hoa province was congested with traffic for several kilometers in the afternoon of October 20 because thousands of people marched on the road with the coffin of a pregnant woman.

 VietNamNet Bridge – My Phuoc town in Ben Cat district, the southern province of Binh Duong was suddenly flooded at midnight on October 19, which was unprecedented event here.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Sala Po Thi Seray Sako or New Temple in Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province, has built the grave for a 10-ton whale that was found dead on the coast on October 11.

The government has reported that the national economy is recovering from the recession. Meanwhile, economists have reminded that the national budget is facing the shortfall and the unemployment rate has been increasing.

France’s Arties Quartet music band will give a classical concert at the French Cultural Centre L’Espace on October 31 to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between France and Vietnam.

 Vietnamese weightlifting ace Thach Kim Tuan yesterdat won three bronze medals in his favourite 56kg event at the World Weightlifting Championship, which is taking place in Wroclaw, Poland.

The Vietnamese leaders and people are eager to further strengthen the friendship and solidarity with India in the interests of both peoples.

 Vietnam’s ancient town of Hoi An has been voted as the second most favourite tourist destination in Asia after Japan’s Kyoto.

Hundreds of students are sent abroad every year under the scholarship programs signed between the governments of Vietnam and other countries. Many of them, after the hard learning period, have returned to Vietnam to work as farmers.

 US President Barack Obama on Monday defended his health reform, declaring at a White House event that, despite numerous glitches, the program is already helping many uninsured Americans.

The sharp fall of the natural rubber price in the world market in the first nine months of the year has distressed Vietnamese rubber companies. However, the price decrease has brought benefits to tire manufacturers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All members of central Thanh Hoa Province's Yen Lam Commune's Farmers' Union, numbered 871, sent petitions to sue the Nicotex Thanh Thai Joint Stock Company on Thursday, according to Le Thien Nghia, the union's president.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Right after its landing at the Da Nang airport, a Vietnam Airlines ATR72 plane was detected to lose a wheel on the right.

Choking clouds of pollution blanketed a Chinese city famed for its annual ice festival Monday, slashing visibility to a few metres, shutting schools and halting transport in scenes that underscored the nation's environmental challenges.