Visitors to the International Travel Expo (ITE) 2013 in HCMC have a chance of buying discount air tickets of Vietnam Airlines at the prices starting from only VND199,000 for many international flights.

 Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh has made a spectacular debut before Japanese football fans with a goal in the second round Emperor Cup match between Consadole Sapporo and Hokkaido University on September 7.

 Three Chu Dau pieces, a plate and two vases, have been recognised as the largest pottery products by the Vietnam Book of Records, Hanoi Trade Corporation (Hapro) said on September 7.

 Viet Kieu set for tax hikes; Vietnam promotes semiconductor industry; Exports to Africa, South and West Asia reach US$6.5 billion; Foreign investment flow into real-estate projects

 Two men have been arrested by the Dong Da District Police for stealing electronic devices from the Centre for Gene-Protein Research at Ha Noi Medical University.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese badminton star Nguyen Tien Minh failed to defend his title at the Yonex Chinese Taipei Open, which concluded in New Taipei City yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will start defending its title at the ASEAN Women's Football Championship today at Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A paradox exists that many commercial banks have raised the deposit interest rates to mobilize more capital, even though they cannot boost lending.

 Daniel Radcliffe has charted an ambitious course ever further from his Harry Potter days, taking on very different roles in no less than three films premiered at the Toronto film festival this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At noon on September 8, a heavy rain accompanied by strong winds made many streets in Hanoi flooded and many trees were uprooted.

Brazilian football club Santos has sent the list of players who will participate in the friendly game against U23 Vietnam team to the HCM City Football Federation. Initially the club promised to bring the most powerful force to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At midnight, six workers in a garment company in Da Nang city was hospitalized for emergency. The authorities determined that they had to work 17 hours per day.

At around 8pm last night, an advertising billboard of over 8m long in front of the Thang Long Puppetry Theatre on Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hanoi, suddenly blazed up. Fire covered the building, making dozens of foreign audiences panic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A teacher of a high school in the southern province of Hau Giang seized 14 pairs of sandals from students and cut the other 5 pairs because the students violated the regulations saying that they have to go to school in uniform.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has approximately 7,000 hydropower and irrigation reservoirs. Tens of small and medium hydropower plants and hundreds of reservoirs have degraded seriously, compared as the “water bombs” hung over local residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thirteen-year-old Nguyen Quang Anh, hailing from central Thanh Hoa City, was crowned the winner of TV singing contest The Voice Kids at the end of an emotional and close-run final on Saturday night in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The domestic assets markets have been fluctuating heavily amid the rapid fire news relating to Syria.

VietNamNet Bridge – While serious subsidence on the new Ring Road 3 flyover section is still a matter of some conjecture, the road's main investor Thang Long Project Management Unit has asked the Ministry of Transport to grant contractors

 ASEAN bloc to improve regional co-operation FM; Malaysian Sultan wraps up visit to Vietnam; Constitution revisions under review; PM prescribes funding to cure HCMC hospital overload crisis

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities of HCMC are seeing the city’s growth target under tenterhooks as the number of loss-making enterprises is on the rise.

 Presidents Barack Obama and Bashar Al-Assad will go head-to-head in dueling US television interviews, as a crucial week dawns for the US leader's push for air attacks on Syria.

 Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott on Monday began the transition to government as he faced potential hurdles in the upper house Senate to drive through his reform agenda.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of Japanese films on natural disasters will be presented at a film festival from September 13-15 at Ha Noi's National Cinema Centre.

VietNamNet Bridge – The President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Geun Hye arrived in Ha Noi late on Saturday to begin her five-day State visit to the country at the invitation of her Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though rain bucketed down last Saturday, the dry board and smiling faces of those joining the cruise made for a great start to our tour along the Hong (Red) River in Ha Noi.