VietNamNet Bridge – The State Bank of Vietnam believes that the number of bank branches and transaction offices is now “bigger than enough.” However, banks still have been trying to set up more branches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The south-central province of Binh Thuan, a major tourism hub with coastal resorts, faces a lack of trained staff for the tourism industry, particularly in management.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local enterprises have become more actively involved in bribe taking and giving in a vicious cycle that they should somehow be able to escape, said an expert from the World Bank in a seminar in HCMC last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not only being the best place to see Sa Pa, Ham Rong Mountain is also known as a royal garden with blooming flowers all year round.

 A Silicon Valley city has designated the boyhood home of Steve Jobs an "historic resource" due to the way the legendary Apple co-founder went on to change the world.

 VietNamNet Bridge - With a height of approximately 2.1 m, Mrs. Lang is the shortest among her siblings.

 Twenty countries to participate in Taste of the World 2013; 2013’s largest online book festival in November;

Viet Nam is likely to experience its 12th tropical storm this year.

 Vinaconex sells debts in Cam Pha Cement; SBV outlines scheme to stabilise forex, gold rates; Nokia and FPT ink agreement; HCM City economy runs into difficulties; New Zealand to export potatoes to Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - The seasonal rains, cool winds, sweet scent of milky flowers, sunshine on yellow leaves, ... the fall has come to Hanoi, gentle and subtle.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese writer Thai Ba Loi has been awarded this year's Southeast Asian Writers Award by the Thai Royal Family.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Most commercial banks say it takes time and money to recover debts through legal procedures.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Known as the queen of the last feudal dynasty in Vietnam, Queen Nam Phuong is known for her matchless beauty.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of hydropower projects, including Dong Nai 6 and 6A, the two projects had caused many mixed opinions about the environmental impacts, will be removed from the national hydropower development plan.

“Telepath” Nguyen Van Thuy and his wife, Man Thi Duyen, who is also a “telepath,” were arrested for investigation of faking war martyr remains, earning hundreds of thousands of USD from the Bank for Social Policies of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Chinese press has given many pages recently on Vietnam’s first comic book affirming sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracels archipelagos.  

Vietnam xiangqi masters Uong Duong Bac and Nguyen Hoang Yen have qualified for the third SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing this December after their excellent performances at the recent World Xiangqi Championships.

In its latest report about the macro economy, the National Finance Supervision Council highlighted the heat in the interbank market, where the trading value reached the highest peak so far this year.

 Industry experts have suggested that property developers should be careful when investing in Hanoi’s five-star hotel market due to oversupply, as average room rates and occupancy levels continue to decrease.

 U.S. stocks rallied on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 closing at record highs, boosted by increasing expectations that the Federal Reserve would delay the tapering of its quantitative easing after downbeat data.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Government officials and experts have become impatient about the slow disbursement of the VND30 trillion bailout to be pumped into the real estate market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More Vietnamese software firms target Japan as the biggest market after they obtained certain achievements and realized that it is not too difficult to get orders from the market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Education and Training Department has decided to stop the controversial enrolment mechanism under which schools admit students based on their grade books.

President Truong Tan Sang said US businesses would continue to be Vietnam's leading partners during a meeting with visiting Chairman of the US-ASEAN Business Council Evan Greenberg in Hanoi yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lawmakers continued their ongoing session yesterday, Oct 29, hearing a report on the draft law on amendments to the Notary Law and discussing the draft law on plant protection and quarantine.