US imposes zero dumping tax on Vietnamese tra fish; Businesses face data loss; HSBC optimistic about Vietnam’s economy; Banks turn away from speculators with new mortgage offers; Gold prices climb to 10-month high

Da Nang has tasked the city’s Historical Science Association to coordinate with the Foreign Affairs Department to translate the “Hoang Sa Yearbook” into foreign languagues, including English and Chinese.

 Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, will be buried at sea, a family spokesman said.

Though commercial banks keep complaining that it’s very difficult to find good clients to lend o, they still made fat profits so far this year.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 7,024 traffic accidents occurred across Vietnam in the first eight months of this year, killing 6,128 people and injuring 5,102 others. 

US President Barack Obama implored Americans to grant him a second term to complete his battered crusade for change, warning of the starkest election choice in a generation. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang joined their counterparts from APEC member economies at the 24th APEC Ministerial Meeting

In the morning of September 6, thousands of residents of Quang Nam province, panicked because of four consecutive quakes up to 3.4 on the Richter scale. In the last four days, this region suffered from 12 quakes.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Vo Quang Vinh comes first in the selection of the best referee of Vietnam in 2012. Notably, the top three referees of last year are still in the top three of this year.

Despite the failure with Beeline project in the Vietnamese market, the mobile network still has some big advantages which bigger mobile networks don’t have. Meanwhile, the network covets the bigger networks’ strong points.

On the day information about Duong Chi Dung’s arrest was released, the Ministry of Transport met to handle the old, expensive floating dock of the Vietnam Shipping Lines Corporation (Vinalines) which was approved for purchase by Dung.

Vietnam’s top male chess player Le Quang Liem defeated Turkish current champion Dragan Solak on September 5. Liem’s victory helped improve the position of the Vietnam’s male team. Meanwhile, the female team was trounced by Indian rivals.

VietNamNet Bridge – A grand meeting was held in Vinh City in central Nghe An Province on September 6 to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Party’s late General Secretary Le Hong Phong.  

 President meets with OV in Vladivostok; DPRK National Day marked in Hanoi; Foreign military attachés visit Naval High Command

Some commercial banks have got the go-ahead from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to raise the ceiling credit growth rates to 25-30 percent, instead of the 0-17 percent rates fixed earlier this year.

Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang and delegation left Hanoi on September 6 for the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting in Russia from September 6-9 and Kazakhstan from September 9-11.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka, is scheduled to play at the Heineken Stars 2012 tennis exhibition on September 20 at Lan Anh Tennis Club in HCM City. 

Despite the great efforts by the city’s authorities to build water supply plants, the Hanoians’ thirst for clean water has not been eased.

According to the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, so far this year 26 people have succumbed to dengue fever and more than 40,000 infectious cases have been reported in the country.

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on Wednesday launched a Global Chemicals Outlook report, urging governments and industries to reduce the growing risks to human health and the environment 

Finishing universities with “excellent grade” degrees, gloried by the Hanoi People’s Committee, a lot of new university graduates have been left unemployed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and local tourist firms next week will make an advance trip to examine some terraced rice fields in Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai),

In HCM City, there were several cases of robbery recently in which the robbers fiercely assaulted victims and also policemen who chased them. This shows that robbery has become a big problem in Vietnam’s biggest city.

The State Bank of Vietnam has requested commercial banks to push up lending to ease the enterprises’ thirst for capital caused by the tightened monetary policies.