Hue – Exhibition “A New Day”; HCMC – Exhibition “Above the Sky, Under the Sea”; Future Shorts One September Screening; Vietnamese Films in Phnom Penh; Live Music at Factory; Film Screening in Sep at IDECAF

After the overwhelming success of the German Film Festival 2010, the festival bigger than ever continues in 2011.

The move of transferring assets and capital flow at PetroVietnam (PVF) has made investors think that the giant finance company is preparing for the plan to shift to operate as a commercial bank.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vice Chair of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), Pham Ngoc Vien said that football clubs cannot secede from VFF to set up their own league.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has set a goal of providing clean water to all households in its rural districts by 2015.

U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday made his latest pitch to urge Congress to pass a 447-billion-dollar jobs bill, saying American small businesses and workers will benefit from the bill.

A multi-media dance performance featuring Japanese and Vietnamese dancers will be held at the Le Thanh Theatre in District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City on September 15-16. 

VietNamNet Bridge – String quartet Diotima, featuring musical talents from France, will hit the capital's stage on September 22.

Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will co-operate with each other in organising tours to their world cultural heritage sites, officials said at a seminar on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Of 60,000 Vietnamese workers in the Republic of Korea (RoK), 8,780 are considered as illegal residents. Korean authorities said that if the situation gets more serious, this country will stop receiving Vietnamese workers.

Businesses have been trying to diversify the export markets, for fear that the serious public debt crisis and the bad performance of the EU’s economies would badly affect their exports.

VietNamNet Bridge – Fashion designer Quynh Paris introduced her “Vaporous nature” collection at the Atmosphere’s Fashion Week in Paris, from September 3-6. She was the only Vietnamese fashion designer at the event.

VND2.6 trillion to upgrade facilities for customs sector; 4 prison warders face charges for killing inmate; Agribank adds US$731m to develop agriculture sector; Quy Nhon fisherman catches 6 great whites

VietNamNet Bridge – After several days of downpours, a mountain was weakened, threatening the Ban Ve hydro-power plant in Tuong Duong district, Nghe An province.

VietNamNet Bridge – The General Hospital of Quang Ngai Province, in central Vietnam, has received nearly 50 people who got an unknown disease. The local health department has asked for the Ministry of Health’s assistance.

Engineer Le Van Tach told VietNamNet that he has lodged complaints against Toyota Vietnam, for violating mail privacy and right of antecedents to the People’s Court of Phuc Yen town, Vinh Phuc province, where Toyota Vietnam’s factory is based.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam took a big victory at the 35th Southeast Asian Shooting Association Championships (SEASA) which wrapped up in Laos on Monday.

Floods have submerged many communes in Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces, in central Vietnam, caused heavy losses. VietNamNet’s Duy Tuan and Thanh Le captured the situation on September 14.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday called on all countries to become " responsible stakeholders" in the shifting global economic and political landscapes, so as to better solve pressing current and future challenges.

30-year-old Sebastian Schoch, a German physical and injury rehabilitation expert, has begun his work with Vietnam’s U-23 football squad this week.

The fact that Vietnamese “Buon Ma Thuot” geographical indication has been discovered as stolen by a Chinese enterprise, has raised the worry that Vietnamese real coffee products with Buon Ma Thuot brand cannot enter the Chinese market.

VietNamNet Bridge – Ngoc Thach, the Golden Prize winner of Vietnam Supermodel 2010, will participate in the Miss Earth 2011 pageant.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Van Luyen, a fisherman from Quy Nhon city in the central province of Binh Dinh, has caught six sharks in Quy Nhon’s sea in the past two weeks.

The plan to rescue seven civil engineering construction corporations (Ciencos) by joining the bids for big-scale infrastructure projects using the loans from the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) proves to have low feasibility.

President sends condolence over Tanzanian ferry disaster; US senator praises VN on gender equality during visit; Viet Nam, India hold sixth strategic defence dialogue