VietNamNet Bridge – A high school in Thai Nguyen Province has been teaching its young pupils the art of traditional then singing in a bid to preserve the genre and pass the baton to a new generation of artisans.

The rubber growing area in Vietnam has far exceeded the rubber plantation development program. While the socio-economic effects of the plants called as “white gold” remain unclear, thousands of hectares of natural forests have fallen down.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 20 international sailboats will compete at the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race 2013 starting in Hong Kong and ending in Nha Trang City in Khanh Hoa Province on a 656 nautical mile route.

Head of the Vietnam sports delegation to the 27th Southeast Asian Games (27th SEA Games) – Mr. Lam Quang Thanh, says that Vietnam expects to win 76 gold medals from 29 sports at this event, which will be held in Myanmar later this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Forty-year-old artist Nguyen Ngoc Dan has spent the last decade obsessively drawing and painting Viet Nam's maze of overhead wires, telegraph poles, loud speakers and traffic lights.

VietNamNet Bridge – Shortly after the new iPhone 5S and 5C went on sale in some foreign markets, many local stores have announced the prices of these smartphones, with the highest quoted at a whopping VND47 million.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) would need nearly VND1.2 trillion (US$57.1 million) to pay out redundancy entitlements for 14,000 employees laid off under the company's restructuring plan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities seem to be sitting back as dog thieves supplying Vietnamese tables furtively carry out their nasty work. How, therefore, can the ordinary public be blamed for taking matters into their own hands?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam plans to make big changes with its national education system after 2015. Students would have two exam subjects for the finals – math and literature – instead of six as currently.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Large-scale music festival ‘Oh la la’ featuring popular Vietnamese and French singers and bands will take place on October 12 at Hang Day Stadium in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group will transfer the electronic management system e-PAS to the Office of the National Assembly Sep 27, after nearly two years of working out the project.

Affirming that bauxite projects would be profitable, the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group has asked for the preferences in borrowing capital, tax incentives and fee reductions to help ease difficulties.

VietNamNet Bridge – The idea of a motorbike that can be adjusted to suit the different physical shapes of its users and offers this convenience while driving has just been realised in the graduate thesis of Duong Minh Khanh,

 VietNamNet Bridge – For a very long time, the image of young women with “non la” (conical hats) and ao dai (Vietnamese gown) has become a symbol of Hue people and Hue tourism.

VietNamNet Bridge – The government has pursued a cautious but flexible monetary policy over the past three years against the background that the global economy was recovering slowly and domestic inflation soared to 13.29% in the first half of 2011,

 Ho Chi Minh City Police have arrested 16 Chinese fraudsters who used technology to swindle fellow countrymen living in China.

White "mummies" at the doorstep, hundreds of "heads", dozens of bloody faces and statues of strange shapes are placed rampantly in a 1,000 m2 garden in Hoa Thanh district of Tay Ninh province, scaring local people.

 Pullman Saigon Centre, the first five-star hotel in HCMC to bear Accor’s brand Pullman, held a soft opening ceremony on Tuesday.

 Vietnamese designer Hoang Minh Ha’s “Black Rose” collection has been displayed along with others from 10 foreign designers in Paris.

 Gold measures balance market; Interbank interest rates fall 1.17%; Index rise ignites industrial hope; SBV regulates debt grouping; Labour exporters rate performance