Vietnam’s top male chess player Le Quang Liem defeated Turkish current champion Dragan Solak on September 5. Liem’s victory helped improve the position of the Vietnam’s male team. Meanwhile, the female team was trounced by Indian rivals.

VietNamNet Bridge – A grand meeting was held in Vinh City in central Nghe An Province on September 6 to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Party’s late General Secretary Le Hong Phong.  

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Some commercial banks have got the go-ahead from the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to raise the ceiling credit growth rates to 25-30 percent, instead of the 0-17 percent rates fixed earlier this year.

Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang and delegation left Hanoi on September 6 for the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting in Russia from September 6-9 and Kazakhstan from September 9-11.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka, is scheduled to play at the Heineken Stars 2012 tennis exhibition on September 20 at Lan Anh Tennis Club in HCM City. 

Despite the great efforts by the city’s authorities to build water supply plants, the Hanoians’ thirst for clean water has not been eased.

According to the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, so far this year 26 people have succumbed to dengue fever and more than 40,000 infectious cases have been reported in the country.

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on Wednesday launched a Global Chemicals Outlook report, urging governments and industries to reduce the growing risks to human health and the environment 

Finishing universities with “excellent grade” degrees, gloried by the Hanoi People’s Committee, a lot of new university graduates have been left unemployed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Representatives of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and local tourist firms next week will make an advance trip to examine some terraced rice fields in Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai),

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.

The State Bank of Vietnam has requested commercial banks to push up lending to ease the enterprises’ thirst for capital caused by the tightened monetary policies.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese hardware and electronics enterprises have witnessed their market shares narrowed gradually in recent years.

VietNamNet Bridge – Diners wanting to discover the unique features and tastes of Hue royal dishes can join two events hosted this month by Phan Ton Tinh Hai, one of the three judges of the Iron Chef reality show in Vietnam. 

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 24 out of 62 residents living within 1km around the Da Nang airbase who have high dioxin concentrations in their blood were taken to Hospital 103 in Ha Noi yesterday for detoxification. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 400 students of the Xa Dan School in Hanoi participated in the opening ceremony of the first academic year on September 5. Instead of singing the national anthem, they performed it by hands.

VietNamNet Bridge – Amateurs will compete in the Viet Nam Amateur Golf Championship at Quang Nam Province's Montgomerie Links from today to Sunday. 

U.S. actress Ellen DeGeneres was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday, representing a fitting honor on the popular comedienne, talk show host and the prime-time television star