VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Hoang Pham Tra Mi has won the first and second prizes at two international piano contests in France and Austria. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The festival for beer lovers, called Oktoberfest, the 19th event of its kind, will take place at the Winsor Plaza hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on October 7-8 and October 11-15.

VietNamNet Bridge – The rumor was spread on the evening of September 10, on Ly Son Island in the central province of Quang Ngai, urging thousands of locals to run away helter-shelter.

VietNamNet Bridge – Winning works of Dogma Prize, the first competition for self-portraits in Viet Nam will be on a display at the National Fine Arts Museum.

 Fourth-seeded American team of Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond won the women's doubles final at the U.S. Open on Sunday by outlasting defening champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova.

Commercial banks all have stopped the programs on mobilizing capital from the public at negotiable interest rates, after the SBV late last week threatened to dismiss managers of the banks which offer the interest rates higher than 14 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – The English National Ballet will perform at the Ha Noi Opera House on Wednesday and at the Opera House in HCM City two days later, according to the British Council.

VietNamNet Bridge – The H're ethnic minority has planted sua in Ca Ray Village, the central province of Quang Ngai's Ba To District to preserve the rare and valuable timber of the country.

The search and rescue workers have retrieved 197 bodies of the victims in the ferry accident in the wee hours of Saturday, Mohammed Aboud, the Minister of State of the Second Vice-President's Office said here on Sunday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Uruguay has decided to open its embassy in Hanoi in order to promote its relationship with Vietnam, especially in economics and trade.

VietNamNet Bridge – As it is getting more and more costly to lease retail premises in Hanoi, small merchants have “invented” a new mode of shops – hanging shops.

The Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the department has suggested many detailed solutions for the draft decree on performing arts, which will be submitted to the government in September.

VietNamNet Bridge – If well-known painters could come back to life by a miracle, they would have wanted to die again when they see their artworks being imitated and sold at dirt cheap prices in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new work inspired by the history of Italy's unification created by musician Andrea Centazzo will debut in HCM City and Ha Noi on September 13 and 15.

The 68th edition Venice Film Festival concluded Saturday, with "Faust," the Goethe's tragedy directed by Russian director Aleksander Sokurov, taking home the top prize, while Chinese films won the honors for Best Director and Best Actress.

At least 141 people have died and four million people have become homeless in the recent rains and floods that have hit the southern part of Pakistan since August, reported local TV channel Express on Sunday.

Two Afghan civilians were killed and 102 personnel of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan civilians injured when a suicide car bomb went off in Afghanistan's central Wardak province on Saturday,

The latest effort by leading telco VNPT to divest itself of assets has resulted in failure.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said here Saturday his country would overcome the debt crisis that has alarmed Europe and the world, pledging to continue an austerity and reform drive, amid massive protests Saturday evening.

Memorial service was held Sunday at the National September 11 Memorial, site of the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, amid tightened security.