Six giant pandas were scheduled to arrive in this Guangdong provincial capital late Wednesday night to provide a cheer for the upcoming 16th Asian Games.

The 17th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit opened here on Thursday, as leaders from the member countries gathered to discuss the building of the ASEAN Community and other related topics.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City National University's Integrated Circuit Design Research and Education Centre announced it has succeeded in fabricating Viet Nam's first 32-bit integrated circuit.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new survey in Da Nang has put paid to a claim by the Institute of Sociology that only around a quarter of online gamers in the central city are aged 10 to 15.

VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court in Cam Le District in the central city of Da Nang on Tuesday sentenced Nguyen Huu Minh to 12 months' jail for masterminding a public disturbance at Con Dau Cemetery.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese singers at home and from abroad will gather in a performance next Tuesday to raise funds for flood victims in the central region.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training is mobilising all resources to help inundated schools in the north-central provinces re-open for students as soon as possible.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese film Canh Dong Bat Tan (Floating Lives), an adaptation from an award-winning short story by Nguyen Ngoc Tu, is poised to become a box-office hit in HCM City.

How to retain ADSL subscribers is a difficult question for service providers. The problem is that subscribers nowadays change service providers like they change clothes every day.

It is now clear that the inflation rate for the whole 2010 will be higher than the forecast level. In the last four years, the CPI forecasts have never proved accurate, which raises the problem of the reliability of forecasting and planning.

VietNamNet Bridge – Lately, teenagers and children have been frequenting the Sunday afternoon circus performance of a foreign entertainment group at Ha Noi Botanical Park.

The “double deficit”, i.e. the state budget and trade deficits, which lead to high inflation and put pressure on the dong/dollar exchange rate, are the most important factors why foreign capital still does not flow into Vietnam.

Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shortened his state visit to Vietnam and returned home on October 27 for post-tsunami and earthquake rescue work.

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies stressed the need for a comprehensive law to combat trafficking, but said the current draft was not detailed enough and would be unfeasible.

VietNamNet Bridge – President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday, Oct 27, presented the 70-year Party membership badge to General Vo Nguyen Giap.

VietNamNet Bridge - A man in Quang Nam Province was rescued last week after a harrowing month he spent living in a cave. Dinh Van Huy allegedly lost his way while fleeing a brutal existence as a gold miner.

Viet Nam's investment and investment-management needs will change as it pursues its next five-year development plan as a middle-income country, experts have said at a conference that opened yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) chairman Nguyen Trong Hy said the transfer price of local footballers is getting far beyond their actual values and thus it is bringing about bad effect to the national football development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phillip Noyce, director of “The Quiet American,” has been back in Vietnam since October 16 for the first Vietnam International Film Festival, eight years after he first came here to direct the film.