Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has praised General Vo Nguyen Giap, who passed away on October 4 at the age of 103, as “one of the greatest revolutionist in the world” and a “great hero who left an imprint on the past century.”

 VietNamNet Bridge – A house on 30 Hoang Dieu Street in Hanoi, where General Vo Nguyen Giap lived and worked, holds many memories and souvenirs of a legendary man.

 VietNamNet Bridge - General Vo Nguyen Giap’s career spans sixty-four years of active service to the Vietnam Communist Party, the People’s Army of Vietnam and the Vietnamese nation.

With just hours to go before the announcement of this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, most bets were still on Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.

 VietNamNet Bridge introduces a collection of photos of the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap with foreign friends. The photos were taken by Viet Nam News Agency staff.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many people claim to be doctors by simply buying a practice certificate, a practice that is getting more popular in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam had targeted 60 percent disabled children to have access to education by 2015, in a project approved by the Prime Minister in 2012, but lack of adequate facilities has put the project in jeopardy.

VTC, AVG and K+, the three big guys in the digital TV market, have been competing fiercely to attract clients by lowering the prices of set top boxes (STB), offering more TV channels and improving program contents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors are again questioning whether Eximbank will merge with Sacombank after a large number of shares were traded through negotiation methods and there were changes in the bank's managing board.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap may have died, but he will forever live in the hearts of millions of Vietnamese people and friends around the world.

 The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam-China Friendship Palace in Hanoi on October 8.

The Deputy Director of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has said the group’s total investment in non-core fields is about VND5.8 trillion, mainly in banking and finance, insurance and real estate fields.

 U.S. researchers said Tuesday they have found two gene mutations associated with increased risk of developing eating disorders.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of October 13, two planes will bring the coffin of General Vo Nguyen Giap and the funeral board from the Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi to his hometown of Quang Binh.

In the past few days readers’ interest in books about General Vo Nguyen Giap has increased considerably announced by Vietnam Book Publishing Company.

 $4 bln Vung Ro refinery project launched; Aquatic export turnover hits 4.6 bln USD; Vietnam committed to TPP negotiation success; Hanoi’s first concentrated IT park makes debut

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has said that Vietnamese telecom group Viettel is not entitled to receive the same tax preferentials as Samsung Electronics Viet Nam (SEV) of South Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Corporate bonds have become the “hotter than ever” investment channel, with $1.4 billion worth of bonds sold in the first nine months of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is scheduled to hold its 22nd session in Hanoi from October 10-15 to discuss a wide range of important issues.

 The French Communist Party in coordination with the authorities of Choisy-le-Roi city hosted a ceremony on October 7 to mark the signing of the 1973 Paris Agreement.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 21st APEC Summit in Bali, Indonesia, has approved Vietnam’s bid to host the 25th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 2017, showing their trust in Vietnam’s rising position globally.

 ASEAN leaders convened their 23rd summit in Brunei on October 9 to accelerate the building of a united community by 2015, solve pending issues, and set orientations for the grouping beyond 2015.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi Telecom, operator of struggling Vietnamobile mobile network, said it needs more telecommunication bandwidth in a bid to expand its 3G (third generation) coverage.

"Research is my passion," said Tuesday Professor Francois Englert of the Free University of Brussels during the press conference, after learning that he is co-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with the British physicist Peter Higgs.

 Economic growth in Latin America in the first half of 2013 was weaker than forecast, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released Tuesday.