East Meets West Foundation (EMW) this month will join hands with its partners to hold two runs to raise awareness of social integration of the disabled, as well as to raise funds for the integrated sports program

 Laos and Viet Nam welcome National Assembly delegations; Lao NA chairwoman receives Vietnamese guests; Vietnam, Indonesia tighten defense cooperation; Vietnam boosts relations with African parties

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 19 groups with around 400 people from travel agencies in 18 Russian cities will come to Vietnam from this month until November to study Vietnam’s tourism.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The lotus flower and beauty of Vietnamese women are the main inspirations for ceramic works and paintings by artist Nguyen Nhu Quang now on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Miss Sports 2012 Lai Huong Thao’s ao dai entered the top 20 traditional costumes at the Miss Supranational 2012 in Poland.

  VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi administration has issued the plan for purchasing public cars in 2013-2015, with the ceiling price of VND720 million (around $36,000).

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Americans not to forget the troops who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan, as he paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.

A lot of modern shopping malls located on advantageous positions in the commercial hubs of Hoan Kiem, Dong Da and Cau Giay districts have been deserted for the last two years.

Hanoi authorities have instructed the Department of Transportation to work out a plan to curb personal vehicles through granting “quota” for newly-registered vehicles and banning some kinds of vehicles on the belt road 2 to the city’s center.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Over ten years ago, the first player who was discovered to be on drugs is midfielder Phan Thanh Tuan of Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) FC.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trung Kien of Ha Noi broke two national records at the National Diving Championships in HCM City on Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) is to help Vietnam apply a system to manage information concerning football.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first ever printed book on local food specialties from different parts of Vietnam was released in August by Vietbook, the publisher of many books on Vietnamese topics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi will be the venue for the 63 rd session of World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, scheduled to take place from September 24-28.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 20th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Vladivostok, Russia on September 8-9 achieved many results and key agreements, creating a new momentum for regional cooperation and connectivity.

  Viet Nam has seen rapid telecommunication growth in recent years, so much so that the country was assigned to host the 1st Meeting of the Asia Pacific Telecomunity Conference Preparatory Group for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam hopes to continue receiving expertise and financial assistance from the UNESCO for the preservation and promotion of values of the country’s internationally-recognised heritages.

  VietNamNet Bridge – Four days after the Cau Chay river dike was broken, thousands of people in Tho Xuan district of the central province of Thanh Hoa are still isolated by flood.

Quang Ngai Province has asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s permission to excavate antiquities in a shipwreck in Binh Chau and to send experts of the Archaeological Institute to survey the shipwreck.

 U.S. pop singer and songwriter Mariah Carey was honored with BMI Icon, the publishing association 's top accolade, at the annual Urban Awards held at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills overnight, BMI announced on Saturday.