VietNamNet Bridge – The 21st APEC Summit in Bali, Indonesia, has approved Vietnam’s bid to host the 25th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 2017, showing their trust in Vietnam’s rising position globally.

 ASEAN leaders convened their 23rd summit in Brunei on October 9 to accelerate the building of a united community by 2015, solve pending issues, and set orientations for the grouping beyond 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi Telecom, operator of struggling Vietnamobile mobile network, said it needs more telecommunication bandwidth in a bid to expand its 3G (third generation) coverage.

"Research is my passion," said Tuesday Professor Francois Englert of the Free University of Brussels during the press conference, after learning that he is co-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with the British physicist Peter Higgs.

 Economic growth in Latin America in the first half of 2013 was weaker than forecast, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released Tuesday.

Vietnam can see great opportunities to develop agriculture and boost farm produce exports to Japan, one of the 12 countries joining the negotiations for TPP, if it accepts to remove the policies to protect its domestic agriculture production.

 U.S. President Barack Obama is to nominate current Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be the next Fed chief on Wednesday, media reports said Tuesday.

 The first direct flight between Central Da Nang and Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta will take off on December 24.

The national under-19 team will enjoy a training course at European giant Arsenal's campus early next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – After suspicious readers questioned the truthfulness of a recently published travel narrative, the author admitted that she had made up much of the story. But while the publisher plans to "correct the information", . . .

VietNamNet Bridge – A string of diplomatic activities in September reflected the Viet Nam's commitment to jointly building a safer and better world, and stronger ties with countries around the globe.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Yesterday, October 8, the ship in distress Bright Royal of Panama was rescued and towed to Khanh Hoa for repair.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The General Staff Command of the Dien Bien Phu campaign in Muong Phang, A1 and D1 hills, De Castries trench... had the footprints of General Vo Nguyen Giap but from now on they will be absent from his image forever.

  Many foreign friends have expressed their deep sorrow at General Vo Nguyen Giap’s passing away and heaped praises on him.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of parents complain that the math questions designed for primary school students tend to be more and more unnecessarily difficult.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The initiative by three high school students to make soap with used cooking oil has got the third prize at the 2013 Innovation Competition for the HCM City’s youth.

 VietNamNet Bridge – What if you had a button on your phone that would let you turn off any device in your house, no matter where you were?

At 5pm on October 4, the pulse and blood pressure of the General had unusual signs. After about 30 minutes, the heart beat stopped and the General passed away at 6.09pm, after 1,559 days in treatment at the Central Military Hospital 108.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The "Aquafina - Fashion and Passion" show took place on the evening of October 1, bringing together celebrities and supermodels.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The offers to sell bad debts are coming in thick and fast after the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) started up and made the first deal with Agribank.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rubbish discarded by local residents in Ngu Loc Commune in the central province of Thanh Hoa has caused serious pollution to the local environment.

 Many taxi firms have cheated to increase the number of cars operating in Ha Noi to get profits, according to the Municipal Transport Authority.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Planning and Investment is proposing the prime minister remove eleven golf courses from the national plan because they failed to meet the government’s criteria.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. To Van Dong, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hanoi, said the agency was planning a suitable route named after General Vo Nguyen Giap.

 U.S. researchers said Monday they have devised a three dimensional (3D) microscopic printing technique to study how communities of bacteria, such as those in the human gut and lungs, interact and influence human health.