VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh secured a bronze medal at the Japan Open championships in Tokyo, after losing 0-2 to the world top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on September 21.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesia defeated Viet Nam 7-6 in a penalty shootout to claim the ASEAN Under-19 Football Championships on their home turf yesterday, Sept 22.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The compulsory restructuring of 8 out of the 9 weak banks has completed successfully.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A group of six record makers of Vietnam were presented the honorary doctorate degree of the World Record University on September 21 in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to submit dossiers to the UNESCO to seek the world natural heritage title for Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park for the second time.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Long Hai is a town in Long Dat District in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province renowned for romantic beaches, Dinh Co Temple and the Palace of Mr. Hoa.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A woman and her two sons died one day after a gas cylinder explosion at her home in Tan Khai commune, Hon Quan district of Binh Phuoc province on September 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Phu Yen and mountainous northern provinces have been asked to accelerate emergency preparations as storm Usagi moves closer.

 Two women and three children are still missing after a car was swept away by floodwaters late yesterday in the central province of Nghe An's Nghia Hong Commune.

A government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai is paying official visits to Italy and Belgium from September 23-27.

 VAMC issues bonds to buy bad debts; US rejects anti-subsidy tax on Vietnamese shrimp; FDI exceeds annual national target; HCM City’s GDP higher than Hanoi

 VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign investors are very interested in the Dau Giay - Phan Thiet highway projects, after a series of preferential policies are announced.

 President Barack Obama used a memorial service for the victims of America's latest mass shooting on Sunday to make another impassioned appeal to reform gun ownership laws.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is scheduled to leave Viet Nam today (Sept 23) to start his three-day official visit to France from September 24-26.

The latest exit poll results showed Sunday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union could have an absolute majority to govern without a coalition partner.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pop singer Ho Quynh Huong was born in 1980 in the northern province of Quang Ninh. She graduated from the Military College of Culture and Arts in 2002 and has since become one of the country's top sopranos.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Not only strictly following Vietnam's regulations on environment, Ajinomoto Vietnam has always considered environment protection as the most important task.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Seventy-five years ago, French entrepreneurs sewed the hillsides of Da Lat with one exquisite collection of villas after another.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Star-shaped lanterns, masks, princess hat, unicorn heads... all kinds of toys for both adults and children are sold along streets in Hanoi’s Old Quarter.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The National Championships will take place in HCM City on September 22 to 27 and the opening day will coincide with the final day of the Japanese Super Series.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi T&T is the first V-League champion that received the FIFA President’s congratulation.

VietNamNet Bridge – A mass performance of xoe folk dance with more than 2,000 participants will take place on September 29 in Nghia Lo Town in the northwestern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

This is the third information technology park in Vietnam after the Quang Trung Software City in HCM City and the Da Nang Software Park in Da Nang City, and the first of Hanoi recognized by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There is an implicit rival among parents to find out whose children do better at school. In order to win the race, the parents have to force children to learn as hard as possible.

Getting impatient about the slow credit growth, banks have been trying to boost consumer credit by offering surprisingly low interest rates, which in some cases are lower than the deposit interest rates.