VietNamNet Bridge – Michelin-starred Chef Mateo Metullio will serve an exclusive gastronomic journey in three Vietnamese cities from October 14 to 18.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Thi Hue fell in love with ca tru when she heard a recording at age 20. Now, she's fighting to preserve the songs. Nguyet Ha reports.

Workers block newly-opened road to get paid; HCM City running out of burial plots; Filling stations in city likely forced to issue receipts; Taxi passengers to be given automatic receipts by 2015; Mekong Delta provinces tackle climate change

Nestle invests an additional US$37 mil in Vietnam; Japanese group seeks investment opportunity in Vietnam; India tops list of Vietnam’s pepper importers in South Asia; HCM City rejects airport expansion; VN rice exports to rise by 6%: FAO

 VietNamNet Bridge – More relaxed visa policies are an important factor for the tourism industry to boost competitiveness in the region and beyond.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The use of smart bus cards was piloted on Giap Bat-Cau Gie route in Hanoi starting on October 6 in an effort to encourage local people to use public transport

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam and Russia are actively negotiating a free trade agreement between Vietnam and the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan).

HCM City agrees to set up tourism department; Muong Lo cultural, sports and tourism week to take place; Tu Na bird garden attracts tourists in flood season; Untouched Ba Lua islands offer pristine scenery

The exhibition on Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional long dress) is held at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi as part of activities celebrating the 60th anniversary of the city’s Liberation Day (October 10).

 Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize.

 Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – All Nippon Airways, the Japanese air carrier, is reportedly one of the more likely candidates to become the strategic partner of Vietnam Airlines, the national flag air carrier.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The low-cost carrier VietJet Air is going to open its first ticket outlet in Can Tho, the biggest city in the Mekong Delta, on 17 October, 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investors are chomping at the bit over Vietnam’s biggest airport project as it prepares to have its investment plan approved for submission to the National Assembly for approval.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has kicked off a university accreditation process, but the criteria for quality assurance remain controversial.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists have discovered a herd of about 30 Muntiacus Rooseveltorum muntjac deer in the jungle in Thanh Hoa Province. This species was thought to have been extinct since 1929.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Old polyscias fruticosa roots, coucal, bumblebee and gecko, as well as and other plants and animals from the jungle, are now available in town to satisfy the need for “unique and tonic” products of townsmen.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has unexpectedly asked the National Assembly to include expenditures on bad debt settlement as part of the state budget.

 Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans has said that one of the 298 people killed in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine was found wearing an oxygen mask.

 French historical author Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature.