VietNamNet Bridge – Roughly 40 tonnes of trash and 70,000 cubic metres of sewage are being dumped into HCM City's rivers and canals daily, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment estimates.

  Seminar discusses transparency in construction activities; Dengue fever cases continue to rise; 21 Vietnamese workers return home ahead of time; Global UGRAD scholarships for Vietnamese students

  VietNamNet Bridge - After the bikini and catwalk contests, Vietnamese model Lan Khue won the “Best Photogenic” Award of the Asian Supermodel competition.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to reduce the export tax rate on coal from 20% to 10% as proposed by the Ministry of Finance. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – There is fresh evidence of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites appearing in central and southern Vietnam and south-eastern Myanmar, according to WHO officials.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the afternoon of September 27, two consecutive earthquakes with large explosions occurred in Bac Tra My district (Quang Nam province) and the area near the Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant.

In HCM City, there were several cases of robbery recently in which the robbers fiercely assaulted victims and also policemen who chased them. This shows that robbery has become a big problem in Vietnam’s biggest city.

 Nineteen people were dead after the Dorneir Aircraft 9N-AHA of Sita Air crashed at the bank of Manohara River near Kathmandu International Airport (TIA) on Friday morning.

Admitting that part of local officials have signs of harassment against enterprises, the Chairman of Binh Duong Province has called enterprises for cooperating with the authorities to fight this problem.

 Hoi An cooking ‘a top experience'; Mid-Autumn festival at Ethnology Museum;  Cracking Bamboo percussion festival in town, Hanoi; ‘Lantern City' to light up HCM City's skyline

 VietNamNet Bridge – Former Dutch player Edgar Davids arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on September 27 to attend the 2012 Tiger Street Football tournament.

VietNamNet Bridge – Different generations of performers gathered to celebrate the Day of Vietnamese Stage during a function in Ha Noi yesterday, Sept 27.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – The GDP rose by 5.35 per cent in the third quarter, higher than the two previous quarters' paces of 4 and 4.66 per cent, respectively.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Buddhist Sangha elected a new executive board to serve until 2017 at a two-day conference which ended yesterday, Sept 27.

Opinions still differ about if it is necessary to set up a rice alliance in ASEAN, an organization like OPEC in rice export.

 What could be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was unveiled in Geneva along with research hinting the piece was indeed the work of the Italian master, although some experts said the claim was unlikely.

Vietnam, Russia cement legislative ties; China’s National Day marked in Hanoi; Cambodia's minister for posts gets warm welcome;  Vietnam seeks closer ties with Sweden, Denmark

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reunited with her former mentor Helmut Kohl Thursday to mark 30 years since he became chancellor, hailing his achievements for German unity and European integration.

Environment ministers from ASEAN member states held their 12th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment and the 8th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution

 VietNamNet Bridge – Around 1,000 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) have gathered at the second Conference for Overseas Vietnamese, currently underway in HCM City.