VietNamNet Bridge – More than 30,000 secondary school students in HCM City will take part in wildlife conservation activities, with a focus on Asian Elephant conservation under the SOS programme that kicked off last Thursday.

Vietnam has been elected for the first time to the Programme and Budget Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for the 2013-15 term, a Vietnamese official has said.

 Pope Francis was on Monday set to announce the date that predecessors John Paul II and John XXIII will be made saints in a ceremony expected to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This morning, September 30, the storm eye was about 200 km off the coast of Ha Tinh and Thua Thien - Hue provinces and is expected to hit land at 4pm.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam needs to implement strategic breakthroughs and macro solutions to improve the economy, which is currently mired in depression,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi is going to launch a pilot project in which parents will supervise and partly decide what exactly their fees will pay for at public schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to re-consider the development plans of hydro-power projects No 6 and 6A and others along the Dong Nai River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some cave paintings, believed to have prehistoric origin, have recently been found on the walls of Kho My Cave, Quan Ba District in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ten Vietnamese executives received the titles of Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) at the 9 th ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards presentation ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM has been selected as the technology provider for Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan 1 Nuclear Power Plant. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - As the home to 17 ethnic groups with unique traditions and festivals, Dong Van Karst Plateau is believed to be good potential for tourism development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – VietJetAir has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the world's leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus for an order of 100 aircraft of different types.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two Vietnamese curators and nine artists will be presenting their works at Singapore Biennale 2013 from 26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes is the main theme in the latest volumes of the widely popular comic series Than Dong Dat Viet.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts during a seminar on Tuesday stressed the need to revise the Law on State Budget to make it more transparent, saying that the current law has exposed many serious shortcomings

Mobile phone exports target US$20 billion; MoF examines ways to restructure tax debt; Vietnam elected to WIPO budget committee; Businesses seek to penetrate UAE

 Vietnam is accelerating a comprehensive institutional reform to facilitate foreign operations in the country.

 Wutip is regaining its strength with gale-force winds gusting up to 130kilometres per hour near its centre and is threatening the central coast of Vietnam in the next two days.

 Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has asked central coastal provinces to evacuate local residents from flood-prone areas before 09.00 am on September 30 before typhoon Wutip makes landfall.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s working trips to France and the United Nations, especially his speech at the UN General Assembly, have left a fine impression on the international community.

 Vietnam will actively contribute to the building of strategies and action programmes of the United Nations in various fields, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.

 Addressing the UN General Assembly’s general debate in New York on September 27, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the international community to re-double efforts to promote peace, end hunger and poverty, and protect the planet.

VietNamNet Bridge – A festival featuring the tourism products of traditional craft villages of Ha Noi and Red River Delta provinces will take place from October 12 – 18, according to the Municipal People’s Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Stock Exchange announced that next year it would deploy five new indices, named the VNMidcap, VNSmallcap, VN100, VN-Industry and VNAllshares.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While city people often head to karaoke lounges to blow off steam, those living in the rural area in the southern province of Phu Yen rely on their own voices.