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.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Cabinet has identified four key tasks for the last quarter of this year, including keeping inflation rates at less than double digits, restructuring businesses and banks, creating jobs, and reducing poverty.

VietNamNet Bridge – Models Thanh Hang and Ngoc Quyen were the key faces of the “Eternal Beauty” fashion show in HCM City on September 26.

VietNamNet Bridge - Despite the issuance of the decision on the new parking rates in early August, parking lots in Ho Chi Minh City apply different rates and the people suffer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Goalkeeper Dang Phuoc Anh has become the first Vietnamese futsal player to sign with a professional foreign club.  

Economists have warned that the inflation is getting closer to the two-digit threshold, emphasizing that high inflation has always been the biggest headache for Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although smuggling of chickens from China is posing a serious threat to domestic livestock, it is rampant and unchecked in the frontier mountainous province of Lang Son and the northern province of Quang Ninh,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in HCM City's Binh Thanh District yesterday, Sept 27, shut down a petrol station for allegedly selling adulterated fuel which affected more than 100 motorbikes that filled there on Wednesday night.

The specialists from the Northern Water Resource Planning and Survey Union has found a new water layer in Hanoi which has huge reserves and good quality.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The newly-issued hospital fees are still not estimated based on the seven price constituents. The Ministry of Health says in the future the hospital fees will include all of these factors, so the fees will increase.

"Amour," which won the Palme d'Or 2012 Award, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" – the best British film 2011 and "A Separation" – the Best Foreign Language Film of 2012 Oscar is among movies that will be screened at the Hanoi International Film Festival.

It is now easier than ever to register to study at medical schools to become general practitioners or pharmacists.

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Center has warned of the occurrence of a flood crest in early October in the Mekong Delta, when floodwaters will surge to abnormal levels across the region.

The steel industry has become more ailing than ever. The domestic market has been dominated by low cost products, while there has been no ray of hope from the export markets.

Existing pay-TV service providers have been making every effort to prevent telecom groups from entering the TV service market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ban craft village produces arguably the most delicious soy sauce in Ban Township, Yen Nhan District, Hung Yen Province.

The Vietnamese home appliance market is witnessing a war, which gathers all the members of the market in an effort to re-define the market share for each.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Gao Village in Thanh Loi Commune, Nam Dinh Province, has preserved the age-old tradition of making unicorn heads for the annual full-moon festival which falls in the middle of the eighth lunar month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have warned that Viet Nam faces a serious budget overspend for this financial year if the Government fails to increase revenue collection.