A number of Vietnam Airlines flights from Vietnam to Taiwan (China) have been adjusted due to typhoon Dujuan, announced the airline on September 29. 

 Trade unions representing seafarers in Asia at the recently-concluded 32nd Asian Seafarers Summit Meeting and the 24th Asian-Norway Seafarers Conference in Kyoto, Japan agreed to establish a hotline to support regional seamen in case of emergency. 

 Vietnam and Russia convened their eighth annual strategic dialogue in Saint Petersburg on September 28, discussing bilateral ties and regional and global issues of shared concern. 

 President Truong Tan Sang attended the United Nations Peace Keeping Summit held in New York on September 28 (New York time) as part of the ongoing 70th session of the UN General Assembly.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh have met with the Bulgarian and Danish Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the ongoing UN Summit in New York. 

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked for strengthened coordination to ensure the strict implementation of laws related to corruption prevention. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The bulk rice exports to the Philippines under the government-to-government market have not helped raise rice prices.

VietNamnet Bridge - A survey conducted by two postgraduates Pham Hiep and Huynh Huu Hien shows a breakthrough in research productivity made by young universities.

Twelve investors have registered to build factories which make unburned bricks from cinders generated by coal thermal power plants in Binh Thuan province. Coal cinder generators are also considering packaging cinders for export.

VietNamNet Bridge - The old apartment blocks in Hanoi have become fragile because of “bird cages” and “tiger cages,” which were built to expand apartments several square meters. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Among thousands of portraits and landscapes shot in Vietnam, the favorite photo of French photographer Rehahn Croquevielle is a portrait of Bui Thi Xong, a boat rower in the historic town of Hoi An.

  Textiles and garment industry expected to achieve double-digit growth after TPP is signed.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Residents of Hue's Thuy Thanh Commune are taking advantage of the burgeoning tourism industry to improve their lives.

 The mystery of why some people appear to have healthy lungs despite a lifetime of smoking has been explained by UK scientists.

VietNamNet Bridge - The world still doesn’t know Vietnamese trained in vocational schools are doing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The experts at the National Economics University have a message for Vietnam — speed up economic reforms aimed at improving labour productivity, or get left in the dust.

VietNamNet Bridge - It is technologically but economically unfeasible to clean “black” rivers in Hanoi, scientists say. 

 Potential grooms will outnumber brides by 4 million in 2050 according to the General Office for Population Family Planning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People whose have less than 4/10 vision, even with glasses, will not be allowed to ride 50cc to 175cc motorcycles in Viet Nam.

New Chan May Port wharf to service by 2018, Cam Ranh port debuts on UPCoM, Ministry mulls import tax on trucks, SCIC to offload Constrexim stocks, Trade deficit hits nearly US$4 billion in 9 months