VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 20 international sailboats will compete at the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race 2013 starting in Hong Kong and ending in Nha Trang City in Khanh Hoa Province on a 656 nautical mile route.

Head of the Vietnam sports delegation to the 27th Southeast Asian Games (27th SEA Games) – Mr. Lam Quang Thanh, says that Vietnam expects to win 76 gold medals from 29 sports at this event, which will be held in Myanmar later this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-year-old artist Nguyen Ngoc Dan has spent the last decade obsessively drawing and painting Viet Nam's maze of overhead wires, telegraph poles, loud speakers and traffic lights.

VietNamNet Bridge – Shortly after the new iPhone 5S and 5C went on sale in some foreign markets, many local stores have announced the prices of these smartphones, with the highest quoted at a whopping VND47 million.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) would need nearly VND1.2 trillion (US$57.1 million) to pay out redundancy entitlements for 14,000 employees laid off under the company's restructuring plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities seem to be sitting back as dog thieves supplying Vietnamese tables furtively carry out their nasty work. How, therefore, can the ordinary public be blamed for taking matters into their own hands?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam plans to make big changes with its national education system after 2015. Students would have two exam subjects for the finals – math and literature – instead of six as currently.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Large-scale music festival ‘Oh la la’ featuring popular Vietnamese and French singers and bands will take place on October 12 at Hang Day Stadium in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group will transfer the electronic management system e-PAS to the Office of the National Assembly Sep 27, after nearly two years of working out the project.

Affirming that bauxite projects would be profitable, the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group has asked for the preferences in borrowing capital, tax incentives and fee reductions to help ease difficulties.

VietNamNet Bridge – The idea of a motorbike that can be adjusted to suit the different physical shapes of its users and offers this convenience while driving has just been realised in the graduate thesis of Duong Minh Khanh,

 VietNamNet Bridge – For a very long time, the image of young women with “non la” (conical hats) and ao dai (Vietnamese gown) has become a symbol of Hue people and Hue tourism.

VietNamNet Bridge – The government has pursued a cautious but flexible monetary policy over the past three years against the background that the global economy was recovering slowly and domestic inflation soared to 13.29% in the first half of 2011,

 Ho Chi Minh City Police have arrested 16 Chinese fraudsters who used technology to swindle fellow countrymen living in China.

White "mummies" at the doorstep, hundreds of "heads", dozens of bloody faces and statues of strange shapes are placed rampantly in a 1,000 m2 garden in Hoa Thanh district of Tay Ninh province, scaring local people.

 Pullman Saigon Centre, the first five-star hotel in HCMC to bear Accor’s brand Pullman, held a soft opening ceremony on Tuesday.

 Vietnamese designer Hoang Minh Ha’s “Black Rose” collection has been displayed along with others from 10 foreign designers in Paris.

 Gold measures balance market; Interbank interest rates fall 1.17%; Index rise ignites industrial hope; SBV regulates debt grouping; Labour exporters rate performance

 VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign real estate service firms once “bossed the show” in the golden age of the real estate market. However, in the economic crisis, things have got quite different.

 Scientists and governments pored over the summary Thursday of an eagerly awaited UN report expected to emphasise the escalating threat from climate change.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There is room for further co-operation between the US and Viet Nam in developing aviation infrastructure, safety and security, industry officials said at a conference held on Wednesday in HCM City.

 Young Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has secured a place in the China Junior U16 Beijing’s semi-final after defeating leading host player Zheng Weiqiang 2-0 on September 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tropical low depression in the East Sea strengthened into a storm early on September 27 and is heading towards the central coast of Vietnam.

A rock of about a ton in weight suddenly fell from a height of nearly 250 meters to the road to the Forbidden Mountain, a popular tourist site in An Giang province. The local authorities have to blockade the road to this popular tourist site.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung left Paris on September 26 for New York to attend a High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.