American Serena Williams won the last four games to beat top ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6 and 7-5 to take her fourth U.S. Open title and 15th Grand Slam title overall here on Sunday. 

  A special performance by French musicians Clement Dufour and Tristan Pfaff will take place at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi on September 18.    

Four central hospitals in HCM City have been named in the Health Department’s list of the most polluting units with no standard waste water treatment systems. The hospitals have blamed this on the lack of money.

  The Prime Minister has approved a national foreign news broadcasting plan by 2020, to expand coverage throughout the globe.

  Vietnam has huge potential investment opportunities for the UK businesses, particularly in area of infrastructure development, said the Lord Mayor of the City of London on September 7.

  President Truong Tan Sang will pay a State visit to Kazakhstan from September 10-11 at the invitation of his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

  President Truong Tan Sang has attended sessions on food security, economic situation in the world and Asia-Pacific, and regional economic integration at the 20 th APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in Vladivostok, Russia.

More and more information technology firms rush to make mobile applications in the context of the increasingly high number of smart phone users. Venture funds have also made heavy investment in the promising sector.

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) attempts to impose high taxes and fees on vehicle owners--considering this the most important measure to obtain that goal.

The new academic year kicked off last week, but a lot of students do not intend to go to school. They have to go to work with parents on the rice fields or small production workshops to earn money.

HCM City's chief police said the police would be tough with robbery targeting foreign tourists. Meanwhile, there are concerns that slogan "HCM City – attractive, friendly and safe destination" will not be achieved if robbery still threatens tourists.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Idol 2012, the fourth season, has a special contestant.

 Vietnam Institute of Economics director Tran Dinh Thien expresses concerns about the possible return of inflation when long-term radical measures to restructure the economy have yet to be strongly expedited.

 Statistics of the General Statistics Office show there was no growth in new broadband Internet subscriptions in April-August but in reality, broadband Internet services in the country were expanding in the period.

  For years in the recent past, the local healthcare sector attracted very few foreign investors who saw it as requiring a long time to recoup investment.

 Scores of canals in HCMC remain heavily polluted and blocked by garbage but their rehabilitation has put on hold since 2009 due to the lack of funding and equipment.

 This change can create a new leadership style and support the firm’s business performance and strategy. Staff restructuring also means a change in corporate culture, allowances and talent management?

  VietNamNet Bridge - After nearly one year of construction, the pace of the overhead rail project implemented by the Chinese contractor is almost one quarter slower than the plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When I asked my four-year-old son where he wanted to go for the weekend, he said he wanted to visit a place where monkeys lived.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Hoan Kiem Lake - Hanoi’s symbol is surrounded by 15-20 storey buildings. Modern buildings of over 100m high threaten to turn the Thap Rua (Turtle Tower), Thap But (Pen Tower) and The Huc Bridge into miniatures.

VietNamNet Bridge – The seriously polluted environment surrounding 47 trade villages nation-wide is set to be gradually removed under the National Target Programme on Environmental Pollution Improvement during 2012-15. 

 The business of obtaining and selling internet domain names is flourishing in Viet Nam, with some names fetching thousands of dollars.

  Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, vice director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, spoke to the Daily on the country’s economic situation from now to the year’s end. Excerpts:

 The number of Chinese tourists visiting Vietnam in the January-August period dropped by 9.7% from the same period last year, and arrivals from this source market are forecast to remain weak towards the year-end.

Industrial waste, unsafe frozen products and petroleum have been imported in masses recently as temporary imports. However, the importers do not intend to re-export the imports.