A film screening of the ballet La Dame Aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), staged by the Moscow-based Bolshoi Theatre in 2015, will be held at TOONG Coworking Space in District 3 on October 17 and 18.

Kieu Loan, Vietnam’s representative at Miss Grand International 2019, has been placed sixth in the Top 21 of the Historic Crowns Fashion Show as part of the pageant in Venezuela.

Le Quang Liem, Vietnam’s top chess player, enjoyed his first win of the ongoing FIDE Grand Swiss 2019 chess tournament following five consecutive draws.

Vietnam have climbed to second place in Group G in their qualification campaign for the World Cup 2022 following their impressive 3-1 victory over Indonesia in Bali on October 15.

Vietnam Television (VTV) has won the rights to broadcast the AFC U23 Championship 2020 finals, which are scheduled to take place in Thailand from January 8- 26 next year.

The Trung Nguyen group, Vietnam’s famous coffee business, plans to open 3,000 E-Coffee shops by 2020, before bringing the franchise chain to overseas market.

One in every three Vietnamese children under the age of five is either malnourished or overweight as a result of poor diets and a food system that is failing them, heard UNICEF ceremony in Hanoi on October 16.

Japan’s MOS Food Services Inc. on October 15 announced that it will train 350 Vietnamese students over four years so that they can work at its MOS Burger stores across the country.

The Mekong Delta is subsiding at an alarming rate, and if the situation continues without effective solutions, the livelihoods of tens of millions of people will be threatened, especially those in coastal areas, heard a recent workshop.

Vietnam’s credit growth is slowing and can fall behind the central bank’s target of 14 percent for 2019, causing concerns that it could make it difficult for businesses to access bank loans during the remaining months of the year.

Vietnam ranked 79th out of the 141 countries in law compliance cost index this year, referred to as B1 index, up 17 places from 2018, said the Ministry of Justice on October 16.

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on October 16 received newly-accredited ambassadors from Sweden, France, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Angola, Laos, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Korea and Tanzania.

The International Circus Festival 2019 opened in Hanoi on October 15.

Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong had a meeting with Speaker of the National Assembly of the host country Maja Gojkovic on October 16.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Government and Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Truong Hoa Binh on Wednesday said alcohol and drugs are to blame for many serious traffic accidents this year.

Japanese guest chef Hironori Wakashima who has more 20 year of culinary experience will be cooking in Hanoi to seduce local connoisseurs with his home-country’s specialties.

A Vietnamese man drinks an average of 27.4 litres of alcohol annually according to a report announced by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at a recent conference.

The Institute of Vietnamese Costumes has officially launched with a mission to honour and preserve the beauty of Vietnamese clothing.

The Ministry of Health has asked HCM City Department of Health to apply punishment and investigate the death of an overseas Vietnamese woman at a local clinic.

Flooding has killed one and inundated more than 5,000 houses in the central province of Nghe An.

This is not the first time Vietnam expressed concerns about China’s violations in the East Sea.

Vinaconex Water Supply Joint Stock Company (Viwasupco), which purifies water to supply for a large part of Hanoi, did not clean the contaminated water but isolated it.

Vietnamese top chess player Le Quang Liem won the sixth match of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2019 chess tournament which is currently taking place in England.

The authorities of Ba Ria-Vung Tau have suspended an aquarium project that has already reclaimed thousands of square meters of land in the sea, as experts and the public have voiced their objections, fearing coastal subsidence.

For Vietnam, the issue is not the lack of money to pay debt, but the inefficient coordination among government agencies, a point that Vietnam must improve on.