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Da Lat is preparing for the Flower Festival

 VietNamNet Bridge - Every year, the exhibition of flowers and plants at the flower garden of Da Lat city is one of the highlights of the Da Lat Flower Festival.

Hung Vuong University to sue MOET for unreasonable decision

Hung Vuong University has decided to take legal proceedings against the Ministry of Education and Training, which released an unreasonable decision on transferring thousands of Hung Vuong’s students to other schools.

PM presents 2014-2015 plans

VietNamNet Bridge – The nation has set to obtain an average economic growth rate of 6% per year in 2014-2015, according to PM Nguyen Tan Dung's Government report at the National Assembly's sixth session

Talented overseas Vietnamese women

 VietNamNet Bridge - They are overseas Vietnamese women who are well-known to the world by their outstanding talent.

Dawn on the largest artificial lake in Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - If anyone ever visits Thac Ba Lake, they will surely not forget the rustic, charming and quite natural beauty of a man-made lake.

U.S. to test if vitamin D prevents diabetes

U.S. National Institutes of Health said that it's to launch a large-scale clinical trial to investigate if a vitamin D supplement helps prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in adults who have prediabetes, and are at high risk for developing type 2.

Expat theatre group toasts decade of success

Saigon Players, an English language theatre group, will present a comedy and a film screening at McSorley's Ale House to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Seven die in boat accident in Binh Phuoc Province

Men jailed for master-minding public disorder; Mine explosion kills student in Quang Binh; Four fishermen missing in ship collision; Ministry inquires into pregnancy deaths; Phu Yen police seize smuggled pangolin

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 25/10

 Dong Nai attracts US$830 million in FDI; Vietnam seals Philippines rice contracts; Vietnam attends global auditors congress in China; Promoting Vietnamese trademarks

State-owned enterprises top list of corporate tax payers

VietNamNet Bridge – State-owned enterprises continued to be the biggest tax contributors in this year's list of 1,000 largest corporate income tax payers in Viet Nam (V1000) at VND77 trillion (US$3.67 billion),

Vietnam's young tennis star advances to second round

 Rising Vietnamese tennis star Ly Hoang Nam progressed to the second round of the ITF junior tennis championships, which is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.

44 recovered from fatal Lao Airlines' plane crash

 Two more bodies have been recovered from the crash site of the Lao Airlines flight QV301, Somkiet Vorralath, deputy director of Champassak Provincial Health, told Xinhua on Wednesday.

Lively celeb portraits in pencil sketches

 VietNamNet Bridge - The portraits of famous people and ordinary people appear real and lively in pencil sketches by amateur painters Tran Minh Thong and Hoang Thao.

Gov’t, Assembly wield differing views on economy

 VietNamNet Bridge – While the Government is fairly upbeat on the country’s economic outlook, the National Assembly casts a somber view on the lingering woes.

Vietnam, UK hold third strategic dialogue

 EU, VN hold talks on ethnic minorities; Vietnamese, Russian Communist Parties seek to boost ties; Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit to visit Vietnam

Import beef routs domestic products, husbandry in the danger

Beef imports have been increasing sharply in recent months to satisfy the increasingly high demand. The cow husbandry in Vietnam, which has been facing big difficulties over the last few years, is not in the bigger danger.

Australia fire threat eases as military blamed

 The furious mayor of an area worst hit by Australia's bushfire emergency is demanding answers after the military was blamed for starting a huge blaze, as cooler conditions Thursday aided fire crews.

Russia to hand over first submarine to Vietnam in November

Russian news agency Interfax – AVN, has reported that the Admiralty Shipyards this year will hand over to the Vietnam Navy, the first of the six diesel-electric submarines of Project 636 Varshavyanka.

Cong Vinh refuses to extend contract with Japanese FC

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese football club Consadole Sapporo wanted to sign a one-year contract with Vietnamese top striker Le Cong Vinh, but Vinh said he would join Song Lam Nghe An FC in the next season, not staying in Japan.

Thanh Hoa: Tons of toxic chemicals dug up at pesticide factory

VietNamNet Bridge – The volume of toxic chemicals that the pesticide company Nicotex Thanh Thai buried in its campus is estimated at tens of tons, dozen times higher than the figure that the company has declared.