VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have confirmed that relics retrieved from a shipwreck in the central province of Quang Ngai date back to the 14th century, making them among the oldest underwater antiques Vietnam has ever discovered.

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Terraced rice fields in Hoang Su Phi district, the northeastern province of Ha Giang, become National Relics with a certificate indicating the title handed over to the provincial authorities at a ceremony on September 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Standing Committee of the National Assembly discussed the draft of the amended Law on Science and Technology and the draft project on confidence voting procedures during its hearing last weekend.

VietNamNet Bridge - This morning, September 17, two earthquakes occurred in the region of Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant, with the shallowest level so far. The quakes are considered dangerous, with high surface devastating power.

  VietNamNet Bridge – During the working hours, tens of state employees of the Department of Trade and Industry of Vinh Long province left their office to attend a welcome party of their new boss.

Local authorities tend to offer attractive incentives which go beyond the currently framed preferences, to lure more foreign investors.

  VietNamNet Bridge – While being at the office, a police major was startled to hear the news that someone had carried two coffins to his house.

  VietNamNet Bridge - After 15 days in the hospital due to a traffic accident, the queen of athletics Truong Thanh Hang left the hospital on the afternoon of September 14.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The swimmer from Da Nang was back at the national swimming championship which is underway in Ho Chi Minh City, and won 6 gold medals after four days of competition.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese contestant at the 2012 Miss Supranational pageant, Huong Thao, did not enter the top 20 but she was presented the Asia Pacific Beauty Queen title on the final night on September 15.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to set up the Nam Yet Marine Reserve of 20,000 hectares in the Spratly Islands. It is expected that in the next three years, Vietnam will have 9 marine reserves.

  VietNamNet Bridge - While the case of Tram Gian temple has still not settled down, another national relic in Hanoi - Tram Pagoda in Chuong My district, is also blatantly harmed.

  VietNamNet Bridge - On November 12, the Vu Anh International Hospital in HCM City performed a successful surgery to remove a big tumor from the mediastinal heart of a 19-year-old girl.

On September 11, while fishing in the waters off the Gulf of Tonkin, Vu Xuan Trong and the crew members were stunned when seeing a huge fish in their net. The fish has a length of 2.4 m, a width of 1.5 m and a weight of more than 300kg.

The recent happenings in the telecom market recently have raised the worries that the monopoly would return and frustrate the current competitive market.

Vietnam now faces the risk of losing Japan as the biggest shrimp export market, because the importer requires very low Ethoxyquin content in shrimp products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One hundred Nigerians are attending a one-year sailor training course at Bach Nghe College in the northern port city of Hai Phong, which started in early August.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 150 households at a tenement in Hanoi were shocked after they learnt that the water they have used in the past several years has been tested containing extremely high contents of deadly arsenic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Football Federation's Referee Department has registered five people to become FIFA referees for the 2013 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Son Tra nature reserves are exposed to high risks of being occupied by bindweed as shown in photos of Son Tra Peninsula taken by Landsat satellite of the United States Nature Museum on July 11,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Danang International Fireworks Competition (DIFC) will be held biennially instead of every 12 months, according to a decision by Nguyen Ba Thanh, Danang City’s party committee secretary,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently approved a project to assist 250,000 physically impaired workers to receive vocational training and be provided with suitable jobs by 2015,

  VietNamNet Bridge  - The beneficiaries died but some commune officials still named them in the list of social benefits to embezzled more than VND140 million ($7,000).

During a press briefing to release two episodes of comic book Why on Wednesday at Express Cafe in HCMC’s District 1, Tri Viet-First News Company and Dai Viet Global Joint Stock Company controversially withdrew the publications