VietNamNet Bridge – The country has recorded a total of 300,000 children suffering from obesity under the age of five, in several major cities, according to medical experts at a seminar on nutrition for children in urban areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has agreed to stop the implementation of the North – South sea optic cable project of the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), with VND3 trillion worth of Japanese ODA.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam now has the great opportunity of attracting more investments from South Korea, especially the investments in high technology, said the Chair of Korean Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - From Hanoi by Highway 5 to Pho Noi town, then turning to Road 39A, going through rice and corn fields and longan gardens, you will reach Pho Hien - Hung Yen.

VietNamNet Bridge – In accordance with its tourism development master plan for 2020, the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has a driving ambition to develop eco-tourism by tapping its rich natural resources and local culture.

On occasion of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and France, a large-scale music festival will be held at Hang Day Stadium in Hanoi on October 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 5.14 per cent in the first nine months of this year, according to a report released on Tuesday, Sept 24, by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Reducing the rice growing area in the Mekong Delta and the south has been projected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in a hope to help increase the rice growers’ incomes.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on September 25 sentenced three members of a drug trafficking ring to death.

 Agro-forestry, seafood exports earn US$20.45 billion in 9 months; Garment sector lacking in material input; Viet Kieu car imports must clear customs

Some 2,900 enterprises out of 6,000 foreign-invested companies set up in accordance with the Foreign Investment Law had failed to renew their operations as regulated by the Enterprise Law 2005 as of May 31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association now tend to import cars from AFTA countries for domestic sale instead of assembling cars themselves.

 An American and two Russians blasted off Thursday for the International Space Station atop a Soyuz rocket that will slash more than a day off the usual travel time.

Champion Ngo Lan Huong yesterday successfully defended her title at the Asian Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Championships in Sydney, Australia.

A youth street arts festival on Saturday is expected to attract hundreds of young people, said a Ha Noi Youth Union official. It will be at Lenin Park with four entrances on Tran Nhan Tong, Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Le Duan and Dai Co Viet streets.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The American famous music movie will be performed in HCM City by Boffalo drama troupe.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese merchants have been collecting shrimps in many provinces and cities without licenses, disturbing the domestic market now and causing long term damages.

 The International Travel Company Oxalis, which is organizing tours to the world's largest cave Son Doong in Quang Binh Province, said that more than 400 international tourists have booked for tours in 2014 at US$3,000 per head.

Crystal-bone girl Nguyen Phuong Anh, who became famous nation-wide as a talented singer after the Vietnam's Got Talent 2012 on September 23, met with global music icon and United Nations Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder, in New York.

 VietNamNet Bridge - For protection and sustainable development of the important natural ecosystems, species and rare genetic resources, Vietnam plans to establish 41 new biodiversity reserves by 2020.

In the afternoon of September 22, a horrific shooting that killed one police officer on the spot and made two others seriously injured occurred at the headquarters of Suoi Tre traffic control station in Long Khanh town, Dong Nai province.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On Monday, the People’s Procuracy of CuM'gar district in Dak Lak province approved an urgent arrest warrant against a man named Ly Van Ton, 27, a hired worker in CuM'gar to clarify the bizarre “love theft."

 VietNamNet Bridge - Sculptor Nguyen Nguyen Ha is exhibiting 11 works in the exhibition "Silence" at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee – Mr. Pham Quang Nghi – on Tuesday said that the city would propose to the government to split Tu Liem District into two districts.

 US stocks ended a volatile day lower as investors remained cautious over the lack of progress in Washington budget talks.