VietNamNet Bridge – American guitarist Rene Izquierdo and Vietnamese guitarist Thai Minh will have performances in Hanoi on September 30 and Ho Chi Minh City on October 1.

 German engineering giant Siemens said Sunday it plans to slash 15,000 positions worldwide by late next year as part of a cost-cutting programme, including 5,000 in its home country.

 Vietnam's under-23 football team defeated Brazil's Santos U23 squad 3-1 in the second match of the Ho Chi Minh City Challenge Cup on September 29 at the Thong Nhat Stadium.

 The reality television show ‘Vietnam’s Next Top Model’ has become a great attraction and drawing a large audience throughout the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on ministries, sectors and localities to continue strongly applying measures to stabilise the macro-economy and rein in inflation.

VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on September 29 arrived in Hanoi, successfully concluding his official visit to France and his tour to the United States to attend the general debate of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Council on September 27 approved a pilot project on the implementation of the urban administration to submit to the Government and the National Assembly for consideration in the Congress session in October.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The sugar plants in Mekong Delta have just started the new sugar cane pressing season, but they can foresee loss.

 Journalist Lothar A. Baltrusch has travelled 15,000 km by his motorbike from Germany to Vietnam to see a poor girl in the central province of Quang Tri.

Vietnam’s top badminton player who just won the national championship has gained two spots up in the world rankings of the International Badminton Federation (BWF) after his results at the Japanese Super Series was updated.

While building a water tunnel for the La Hieng hydroelectric plant in the central province of Phu Yen, water suddenly overflowed, sweeping away three workers on September 27. Until today, September 30, they are still missing.

According to Chairman of the Government Office - Vu Duc Dam, the Government will be surveying to amend the current regulations on the fixed number of deputy ministers of four for each ministry.

An excavator bit deeply into the ground, causing a gap at the foot of a wall, which made it collapse. Four boys standing nearby were buried. Two died on the spot and two others died on the way to the hospital.

A lot of candidates with master degrees have got disillusioned, as they cannot get the jobs deserving their higher education. Many of them have to put the degrees on the shelves, taking the jobs of factory workers, café manager to earn their living.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The government has requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to check the plan on developing hydropower plants and exclude the Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A from the plan.

 At least 47 students were killed in a college in Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe after gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members unleashed terror on Sunday morning, local sources reported.

 Italy braced for market reactions on Monday as Prime Minister Enrico Letta battled to save his coalition from collapse after Silvio Berlusconi said he was pulling his party's ministers out of the cabinet.

The consumer price index (CPI), after increasing by 0.83 percent in August, soared by another 1.06 percent in September. Analysts have warned the inflation rate in 2013 may go beyond 8 percent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 30,000 secondary school students in HCM City will take part in wildlife conservation activities, with a focus on Asian Elephant conservation under the SOS programme that kicked off last Thursday.

Vietnam has been elected for the first time to the Programme and Budget Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for the 2013-15 term, a Vietnamese official has said.