VietNamNet Bridge – High schools in HCM City will begin applying the integrated teaching method in the 2014-2015 academic year, preparing students for the new examination model, expected to begin in 2017.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A large stone was thrown at a coach travelling on Highway 14 through Ea H'Leo commune in Dak Lak province at 8pm on September 24.

Metropole Hanoi makes prestigious Top 100 list; Uong Bi City, home to Yen Tu, seeks spiritual visitors; Can Tho plans new air routes to boost tourism; Hanoi undertakes efforts to attract more visitors

New archaeological discoveries presented in Hanoi; Da Nang hosts museum fund-raiser; Photography show highlights nine relics; Fourteen places recognised as national relic sites; Reprint of questionable quality gets Good Book Award

 Hanoi authorities have decided to appoint Dr. Dam Quang Minh, 35, as dean of FPT University.

 Exploded Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams from Peace Trees Viet Nam (PTVN) detonated and removed a 1,000-pound (450kg) bomb in the central Quang Tri Province yesterday.

 Vietnam authorities will re-examine the living and working conditions of Vietnamese labourers in Malaysia, especially those in the electronic sector, to see if there have been any abuses.

 VietNamNet Bridge  – The Ministry of Finance is trying to keep expenditures for investment projects at the lowest possible level next year, but the Ministry of Planning and Investment wants a higher level of spending.

Vietnamese No.1 player Nguyen Tien Minh easily defeated Thai rival Boonsak Ponsana 2-0 in the men’s badminton singles at the 2014 Asian Games (ASIAD 17) on September 25.

 Gymnast Phan Thi Ha Thanh of Viet Nam won her second medal, a silver, in the women's beam event at the 17th Asian Games (ASIAD) in Incheon, South Korea yesterday.

 A retail network comprising over 1,000 supermarkets and shopping centres is to be built in Hanoi by 2020 to serve the needs of its citizens, Vice Director of Hanoi’s Department of Industry and Trade Tran Thi Phuong Lan has said.

 Online shopping day 2014 is set for Friday, December 5.

Vietnam, Cambodia beef up military ties; Australia, Vietnam boost agricultural cooperation; RoK proposes trade balance with Vietnam; Chinese Communist Party delegation visits Vietnam; Vietnam backs international efforts to fight terrorism

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Hai Binh has reiterated the Vietnamese Government’s readiness to launch necessary measures to protect fishermen’s normal activities in traditional fishing grounds at a regular Foreign Ministry yesterday.

 Vietnam and the US will discuss measures to promote the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership during Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh’s upcoming visit to the US.

 Finland supported the acceleration of the signing of a free-trade agreement between Viet Nam and the European Union and the bloc's recognition of Viet Nam as a market economy, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said yesterday.

 Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held bilateral meetings with his Finnish and Tanzanian counterparts on the sidelines of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 69) in New York on September 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Efforts made by Quang Nam provincial authorities have not helped stop illegal gold mining there, as farmers’ rice fields and land have been used for large gold mining sites.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam attracted US$11.18 billion in foreign direct investments (FDI) in the first nine months of this year, or 74.5 per cent of FDI in the same period last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To landscape photographers, Hoang Su Phi terraced rice fields in the northwestern province of Ha Giang are always a great choice.