In 2010 and 2011, the gross regional domestic product (GRDP) indexes reported by the 63 provinces and cities were very high, but the GDP of the whole country were low at 6.42 and 6.24 percent, respectively.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 3,800 candidates have registered to take online examinations to become civil servants of Ha Noi, starting on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – To earn money, some university students have been taking classes and roll calls posing and have to bear the consequences.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There have been 18 investment deals involving Vietnamese IT firms in the first nine months of 2013 amid the backdrop of the ongoing economic crisis,

VietNamNet Bridge – International donors have committed nearly US$ 80 billion in official development assistance (ODA) for Viet Nam over the last 20 years, serving to convert Viet Nam into a low middle-income country.  

Concerns are still being raised by the public over the Voice Kids (live show series) which recently ended, but its champion Quang Anh, 12, and his runner-up, My Chi, 10, have dropped out of school to join in very busy performances.

VietNamNet Bridge – The War Remnants Museum is filled with the fragrance of grass and rice, punctuated by the lingering smoke of cooking fires. Foreign visitors watch on as old women - one time guerrilla fighters - cook the rice

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nestled on a hillside in central Thua Thien Hue Province, a cemetery home to 45,000 graves plays host to many stories unfamiliar to most other cemeteries.

 The hotel management company Marriott International is preparing to open what will be the first hotel to be managed by Marriot in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam, one of the world’s leading rice exporters, has lowered bar for its rice export for 2013 to between 7-7.2 million tonnes from the targeted 7.5 million tonnes and is striving to open new markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nam has made achievements and progress in boosting up industrialization and modernization after 25 years of pursuing the “Doi moi” cause.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Education experts have insisted tighter inspection and management of private kindergartens is needed to shore up education quality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese banks see bad debts increasing, but all of them have got higher capital safety. Meanwhile, the commercial banks believed to have high capital safety are the ones which may lose capital easily.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While Vietnam has imported genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans for around decade, the country is trying to set up a legal framework for the application of biotechnology domestically.

Over 3,000 people participated in the campaign to collect signs to support equal marriage in Vietnam, held by the organizations for the community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders in Vietnam from September 26 through October 11.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dance and music collective Jari&Taika from Finland will make their first ever performances in Viet Nam next week.

 Three banks to get bonds for bad-debt swap; HCM City firms in line for short-term SBV loans; Security application reaches 1m mobiles; Long An tops Delta investment; Vietnam-Russia trade to hit US$4 billion in 2013

 VietNamNet Bridge – A healthy, fat dairy cow of Mr. Duong Van Noi has won the prize worth VND55 million ($2,500) for the title of Miss Cow Moc Chau 2013.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dinh Minh Tuan from the Advisory Council to the National Assembly Committee for Economic Affairs tells Countryside Today newspaper that banking sector reform remains a crucial priority.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Larry Berman, an American historian, will return to Viet Nam next month to begin interviews and research for a new book on Vietnamese agent Nguyen Van Tau, alias Tu Cang.