VietNamNet Bridge – The legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap may have died, but he will forever live in the hearts of millions of Vietnamese people and friends around the world.

 The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam-China Friendship Palace in Hanoi on October 8.

The Deputy Director of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has said the group’s total investment in non-core fields is about VND5.8 trillion, mainly in banking and finance, insurance and real estate fields.

 U.S. researchers said Tuesday they have found two gene mutations associated with increased risk of developing eating disorders.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of October 13, two planes will bring the coffin of General Vo Nguyen Giap and the funeral board from the Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi to his hometown of Quang Binh.

In the past few days readers’ interest in books about General Vo Nguyen Giap has increased considerably announced by Vietnam Book Publishing Company.

 $4 bln Vung Ro refinery project launched; Aquatic export turnover hits 4.6 bln USD; Vietnam committed to TPP negotiation success; Hanoi’s first concentrated IT park makes debut

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has said that Vietnamese telecom group Viettel is not entitled to receive the same tax preferentials as Samsung Electronics Viet Nam (SEV) of South Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Corporate bonds have become the “hotter than ever” investment channel, with $1.4 billion worth of bonds sold in the first nine months of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is scheduled to hold its 22nd session in Hanoi from October 10-15 to discuss a wide range of important issues.

 The French Communist Party in coordination with the authorities of Choisy-le-Roi city hosted a ceremony on October 7 to mark the signing of the 1973 Paris Agreement.

 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.