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Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong to visit China next week

VietNamNet Bridge - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, Nguyen Phu Trong, will pay an official visit to China from October 11-15.

NA deputy warns of water exhaustion

VietNamNet Bridge – Chairman of the National Assembly’s (NA) Committee for Science, Technology and Environment, Phan Xuan Dung, has warned that rivers would die one day if Vietnam does not change its policy on water resource management.

Businessman promises $500,000 bonus for national football squad

VietNamNet Bridge – Hoang Anh Gia Lai football club’s Chair, Doan Nguyen Duc, a famous businessman, has pledged bonus of VND11 billion ($500,000) for the championship of the Southeast Asian Games 2011.

Retail market warms up

Experts say the domestic distribution market will receive more big foreign retailers. Meanwhile, the existing distribution chains in Vietnam also plan to expand their investment scale.

Baby with four hands operated on

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City-based Children’s Hospital 2 has announced to have successfully conducted an operation for a baby with four hands on October 4.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 5/10

Blaze destroys 50 houses in Tra Vinh; Border police rescue 3 women from trafficking ring; Ha Noi to open 23 express bus routes; Tax agency found withholding $69.2mil

Saigon’s trade streets

VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon has streets of Chinese traditional medicines, ornamental birds and fish, wedding invitation cards, etc.

Seafood processors pollute port town

VietNamNet Bridge –  Seafood processing companies are creating serious water pollution problems in Kien Giang Province.

French ballet stars to perform in Ha Noi

VietNamNet Bridge – Ballet dancers Dorothee Gilbert and Stephane Bullion from the Opera de Paris Theatre will join artists from the Viet Nam Opera and Ballet Theatre in one performance only next Monday.

Domestic ports’ price war benefits foreign shipping agents

It is necessary to renovate the mechanism to better exploit the Cai Mep-Thi Vai ports, or some ports would be eliminated due to interminable losses.

U.S. House speaker says currency bill on China "dangerous"

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that the Senate vote to allow debate on a controversial bill on so-called "currency manipulation" by China is "pretty dangerous," indicating a less possibility for the bill to pass

Sa Pa takes lead in green clean-up

VietNamNet Bridge – Dao Thi Nui took a broom, a shovel and a bin bag before pairing up with a classmate on Sunday morning and heading off to clean one of the streets in her hometown, Sa Pa, in the northwestern province of Lao Cai.

GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 5/10

Vietnam seminar looks at APEC 2011 opportunities; Vietnam, Mozambique beef up cooperation; RoK national foundation day observed in Hanoi; Judicial reform board meets in Hanoi

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 5/10

Painting exhibition on East Sea in California; Flamenco gala celebrates Spain’s National Day; Sean Sutton displays positive post-war stories; PWA, PKRA surfing contests in Phan Thiet; Italian author Beppe Severgnini talks to Hanoi readers

Nobel physics prize winner inspiring, funny: colleagues&family

The study on the expansion of the universe by Saul Perlmutter may seem to be beyond this world, but in the eyes of colleagues and family members, the co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is a down-to-earth person

US$1 billion enough to renovate Vietnam’s civil servants?

VietNamNet Bridge – With $1 billion, Vietnam can change its system of bureaucratic civil servants into a contingent of enthusiastic and qualified people, said a senior expert from the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM).

Japanese manga art exhibited

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese fans of Japanese anime and manga art will have a chance to enjoy an exhibition entitled Japan: Kingdom of Characters.

4 injured, 1 dead in NYC chopper crash

Four people, including the pilot, were pulled from the New York City's East River in the crash of a helicopter off the 34th Street Helipad on Tuesday in a dramatic, televised rescue operation.

Vietnam-Switzerland eyes stronger partnership, co-operation

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam and Switzerland will celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations on October 11. To mark the occasion, Swiss President and foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey spoke to VNA correspondent Le Thanh.

Death toll reaches 13 in floods

VietNamNet Bridge – Two more people were killed yesterday in the wake of ongoing storms and flooding, raising the recent death toll due to weather to 13,