VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Sports 2012 Lai Huong Thao’s ao dai entered the top 20 traditional costumes at the Miss Supranational 2012 in Poland.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi administration has issued the plan for purchasing public cars in 2013-2015, with the ceiling price of VND720 million (around $36,000).

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Americans not to forget the troops who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan, as he paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.

A lot of modern shopping malls located on advantageous positions in the commercial hubs of Hoan Kiem, Dong Da and Cau Giay districts have been deserted for the last two years.

Hanoi authorities have instructed the Department of Transportation to work out a plan to curb personal vehicles through granting “quota” for newly-registered vehicles and banning some kinds of vehicles on the belt road 2 to the city’s center.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Over ten years ago, the first player who was discovered to be on drugs is midfielder Phan Thanh Tuan of Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) FC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trung Kien of Ha Noi broke two national records at the National Diving Championships in HCM City on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) is to help Vietnam apply a system to manage information concerning football.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first ever printed book on local food specialties from different parts of Vietnam was released in August by Vietbook, the publisher of many books on Vietnamese topics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will be the venue for the 63 rd session of World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, scheduled to take place from September 24-28.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 20th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Vladivostok, Russia on September 8-9 achieved many results and key agreements, creating a new momentum for regional cooperation and connectivity.

  Viet Nam has seen rapid telecommunication growth in recent years, so much so that the country was assigned to host the 1st Meeting of the Asia Pacific Telecomunity Conference Preparatory Group for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to continue receiving expertise and financial assistance from the UNESCO for the preservation and promotion of values of the country’s internationally-recognised heritages.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Four days after the Cau Chay river dike was broken, thousands of people in Tho Xuan district of the central province of Thanh Hoa are still isolated by flood.

Quang Ngai Province has asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s permission to excavate antiquities in a shipwreck in Binh Chau and to send experts of the Archaeological Institute to survey the shipwreck.

 U.S. pop singer and songwriter Mariah Carey was honored with BMI Icon, the publishing association 's top accolade, at the annual Urban Awards held at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills overnight, BMI announced on Saturday.

Thien Trang, My Van, Duong Thanh, Ngoc Thuy, Nga Truc and Mai Giang performed in a fashion show in New York. Earlier, the producer of the Vietnam's Next Top Model 2012 announced that this is the bonus for the top five contestants.

 Many health risk factors of Australians are growing, although some, such as smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, have dropped among young people,

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese-native blind woman has written a true fairytale in the United States.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fining telecommunication and internet services providers that violate copyright laws is proving difficult in Viet Nam even though the necessary legal system is in place.

In the morning of September 11, the Court of Appeal of Nam Tra My district in the central province of Quang Nam--put on trial the last case of a dozen of lawsuits of Nuoc Xa villagers against the Electricity of Vietnam Group.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Floating markets on rivers in the Mekong Delta have existed for hundreds of years and are not merely a place for buying and selling of farm produce but have over time become quintessentially a cultural

  VietNamNet Bridge - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official visit to Singapore from September 12-14.

  The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed that the State Bank of Vietnam guarantee credit to small-and medium-sized enterprises as well as potential markets.

The merger and acquisition (M&A) affairs which successfully wrapped up recently all witnessed the deep intervention of the state management agencies.