Sluggish growth and spillovers of the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to scale back its economic stimulus are expected to feature prominently in discussions at the upcoming leaders' summit of Group of 20 or G20,

 Lai Huong Thao will represent Vietnam at the sixty third Miss World 2013 beauty contest, to be held in Bali Bay, Indonesia from September 3- 28.

Under the draft regulation compiled by the State Bank of Vietnam, commercial banks don’t have to pay back to customers the exact gold bars they entrusted to banks under the safekeeping services.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Flowers imported from the Netherlands and Ecuador will be showcased in Viet Nam for the first time at the Ha Noi flower festival which runs from August 30 to September 2.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overlapping management of inland waterway traffic has hindered infrastructure development in HCM City and made it difficult to penalise violations and effectively tackle the problem of increasing accidents, local officials say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Heavy rains are expected to continue battering the northern region this week, raising fears of further flash floods and landslides.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A womb of Dermochelifs coriacea’s eggs, or “rua da” as called by local people has been found off of the Vietnamese coast. However, no baby turtle was born from the eggs.

Vietnamese associations have warned their members that import countries may prevent the GMO (genetically modified organisms) exports from Vietnam, which is considered a technical barrier like the antibiotics residue one.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Embassy in Greece has conferred the Vietnamese State’s title Hero of the People’s Armed Forces on Kostas Sarantiris, alias Nguyen Van Lap.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The university degree is believed to be an admission card for someone to make his way easier in the world. However, this is not true in all cases.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coming to photographer very late--but over the past 15 years, photographer Dao Tien Dat in Binh Dinh province has won over 700 national and international awards for photos of humanity and the fates.

 VietNamNet Bridge – OTT (over the top) app users may not be able to use the services free of charge any more, as the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) attempts to collect fees from them.

VietNamNet Bridge – Mubarak is one of the oldest mosques of the Muslim community of Cham people in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, and it lures many tourists to explore the culture and religion as well as architecture.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Famous football striker Phan Thanh Binh, who plays for the Dong Tam Long An Football Club, has accepted actress and director Viet Trinh's invitation to play a role in her new movie.

Swaying in a buffalo wagon on the village road running between the rice fields, riding on the back of a buffalo or standing behind a buffalo for plowing is the experience offered for tourists by a travel agency in Hoi An.

 A US judge approved a deal in which Facebook will pay $20 million for using members "likes" as endorsements for ads.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The exhibition of the artifacts of the subsidy period in Vietnam took place from August 21 to 28 at Nha San Collective, No. 9 Tran Thanh Tong attracted the attention of many people.

Rice export earnings hit over US$2.05 billion; VietinBank Deputy CEO appointed as SBV Chief; Customs intensify inspection on milk import-export; Foreign companies eye Vietnamese retail market

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's automobile industry had failed to reach its objective of selling cars at prices to suit Vietnamese pockets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Truong Mai Nhat Linh will represent Viet Nam at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships from August 28-September 1 in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bilingual rapper Kensho Kuma and Tokyo-based beat maker Cloud NI9E will perform together at CAMA ATK on August 29.

 Human activities are changing the water chemistry of many rivers in the eastern United States, potentially threatening urban water supplies and aquatic ecosystems, a U.S. study said Monday.

 To mark her thirtieth birthday, a Vietnamese woman spent US$3,000 on a tour of Son Doong Cave--the world largest cave.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Merger and acquisition (M&A) was once considered the best way for enterprises to expand their business scale. However, the latest surveys on the post-M&A period showed 61 percent of the deals led businesses to failures.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Asian Youth Games 2013 gold medalist Ly Hoang Nam will train under the guidance of Michael Baroch, a former coach of tennis player Maria Sharapova, in HCM City.