HCM City firms seek 95,000 new employees; 2 Chinese sentenced for illegal gun possession; Sai Gon rail station offers 90% discounts; Nigerian sentenced to death for heroin trafficking

Local exporters lament rising costs; ODA disbursement in H1 reaches just 18%; Tours cost more this year; 10 Vietnam firms listed among Forbes Asia’s best; State cement firm posts loss despite high revenue

VietNamNet Bridge – The 100-year-old Long Bien Bridge is sharing the burden with Chuong Duong Bridge by serving thousands of motorbikes a day. Artists have proposed to turn the bridge into a museum.

Coming to the northern province of Ninh Binh, after spending time on historical sites of Hoa Lu Capital (968-1009), visitors should not miss Cuc Phuong National Park in Nho Quan District, about 120 kilometers from Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – According to the World Bank (WB), Vietnam ranks 85th among 163 countries for the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with 59 points.

VietNamNet Bridge – The 38th Run for Peace, organised by Ha Noi Moi newspaper, will be held tomorrow, Oct 2, in the capital city. The event marks the 57th anniversary of Ha Noi's liberation, which falls on October 10.

A lot of new universities have opened, while the number of the lecturers with doctorates has not increased accordingly. Universities are really thirsty for the lecturers with high academic titles. Therefore, many bogus and false PhDs have appeared.

Though IPTV now has many good conditions to develop, including the cheap terminal devices and the issuance of the paid-TV legal framework, IPTV still has not become popular in Vietnam.

VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Dr. Tran Dinh Thien, Rector of the Vietnam Economics Institute, about Vietnam’s economic portrait, with initial figure of its structure.

In people’s thoughts, touring in Hanoi means visiting ancient streets, watching water puppetry, visiting Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and the Museum of Ethnology. The itinerary has not changed over the last many years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Rock Saigon is not a burning, breaking-the-rule world of youth--but it is a gloomy world, where talents are wearing out gradually.

An attorney hired by concert promoter AEG to draft an employment agreement for Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician who is charged with involuntary manslaughter following the singer's death,

Vietnam still cannot fully exploit the seaports due to the poorly equipped conditions and the lack of competitiveness in comparison with regional ports.

Climate change could cost Canada billions of dollars a year by the end of this decade, a government funded study group announced Thursday.

A lot of businessmen from Taiwan and South Korea have fled and left huge debts of tens of millions of dollars.

Investors woo homebuyers; Ford Vietnam denies selling rusty parts; Vietnam unlikely to achieve FDI target; Coffee output to hit a record of 1.32 million tonnes; HCM City’s GDP up 10 percent in nine months; Government targets six percent growth

Keppel Scholars’ Appreciation Concert; Exhibition “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”; Screening of “Two Days in France”; Bread & Circus and Good Mouth Feel Live; Screening of “Daughter from Danang” by FVH

VietNamNet Bridge – On the hills of the Muong Culture Museum in the northern province of Hoa Binh, which cover five hectares, are unique contemporary artworks made by local soil, stone, trees and leaves.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese movie “Floating Lives” will be screened in Belgium in the upcoming “Panorama of Vietnamese movies” program on October 4-8.

VietNamNet Bridge – The chief of the Vietnamese sports delegation to Southeast Asian Games 2011 (SEA Games), Lam Quang Thanh, will work with the HCM City Tennis Federation on the text message scandal today, September 30.

VietNamNet Bridge – The owners of six clubs playing at the V-League national championship has signed a petition, asking the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) to establish a company to run the V-League.

Representatives of foreign invested enterprises’ associations say a lot of their member companies have decided to cancel the plans to make further investments in Vietnam, while keeping the “wait-and-see” attitude.

The White House on Thursday said that U.S. President Barack Obama is comfortable with next year's presidential election being a referendum on his economic policies, and the president will be running on the record of saving the economy

  Implementing national strategy on gender equality; 130 primary students hospitalized from food poisoning; Germans advise on traffic lights; Fuel leaked from ship collision off Vung Tau

VietNamNet Bridge – Typhoon Nesat, the fifth major storm this year, landed Quang Ninh and Hai Phong at around 1pm, September 30.