VietNamNet Bridge - The General Staff Command of the Dien Bien Phu campaign in Muong Phang, A1 and D1 hills, De Castries trench... had the footprints of General Vo Nguyen Giap but from now on they will be absent from his image forever.

  Many foreign friends have expressed their deep sorrow at General Vo Nguyen Giap’s passing away and heaped praises on him.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A lot of parents complain that the math questions designed for primary school students tend to be more and more unnecessarily difficult.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The initiative by three high school students to make soap with used cooking oil has got the third prize at the 2013 Innovation Competition for the HCM City’s youth.

 VietNamNet Bridge – What if you had a button on your phone that would let you turn off any device in your house, no matter where you were?

At 5pm on October 4, the pulse and blood pressure of the General had unusual signs. After about 30 minutes, the heart beat stopped and the General passed away at 6.09pm, after 1,559 days in treatment at the Central Military Hospital 108.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The "Aquafina - Fashion and Passion" show took place on the evening of October 1, bringing together celebrities and supermodels.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The offers to sell bad debts are coming in thick and fast after the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) started up and made the first deal with Agribank.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rubbish discarded by local residents in Ngu Loc Commune in the central province of Thanh Hoa has caused serious pollution to the local environment.

 Many taxi firms have cheated to increase the number of cars operating in Ha Noi to get profits, according to the Municipal Transport Authority.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Planning and Investment is proposing the prime minister remove eleven golf courses from the national plan because they failed to meet the government’s criteria.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mr. To Van Dong, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hanoi, said the agency was planning a suitable route named after General Vo Nguyen Giap.

 U.S. researchers said Monday they have devised a three dimensional (3D) microscopic printing technique to study how communities of bacteria, such as those in the human gut and lungs, interact and influence human health.

Vietnamese photographers were awarded several prestigious prizes at the 5th International Photography Competition in Finland.

 WB forecasts Vietnam GDP at 5.3 percent in 2013; FPT Company among top 500 global IT companies; Vingroup seeks to lure property buyers; Refinery investment to double

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign media and public opinions in recent days have shown that General Vo Nguyen Giap, who passed away last Friday at the age of 103, will live forever in the memories of friends from foreign shores.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shrimp exporters have been gearing up to fulfill the export contracts. Meanwhile, farmers refuse to sell shrimp at this moment, because they hope the prices would go up in the future.

 Viet Nam yesterday won their place at next year's Asian Football Confederation Under-19 Championship in Myanmar.

 U.S. stocks took a big hit Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a one-month low, as investors grew more worried about a possible debt default in Washington.

 Prime Minster Nguyen Tan Dung and his delegation on October 8 left Hanoi for the 23rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings from October 8-10 at the invitation of Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah.