“Floating season” in Mekong Delta, when the water level is on the rise and the rivers and canals expand, takes place from the seventh to the ninth lunar month. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Under ancient tea trees at the foot of Sang Mountain in Gia Vien District, the northern province of Ninh Binh, lays a picturesque farm, where hundreds of pigs live.

 Budget carrier Vietjet and France’s Airbus signed a purchase agreement for additional 50 A321neo aircraft worth 6.5 billion USD according to the manufacturer’s list price in Hanoi on November 2. 

 IFC’s investment in Altus Capital will enable the company to set up a regional facility to invest in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam, the latter two being nascent markets for distressed asset recovery.

 Craft Link, a not-for-profit organization that supports traditional craft producers, will organize a Handicraft Bazaar at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi on November 17.

 Deputies in favour of the need to ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

 HCMC is short of bus stations but many locations for building new stations have been used for other purposes, raising difficulties for the city in developing public passenger transport network.

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) receives French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in Hanoi on November 2 

 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President Nguyen Phu Trong presented a report asking for ratification of the CPTPP during a sitting of the legislature in Hanoi on November 2.

 The Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement signed in 2008 has become a driver for trade growth between the two countries.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Thi Thanh Loan of Can Tho City was one of the lucky ones.Two years ago, doctors found a small, stage-1 tumour in her breast during a regular health check-up at the Hoa Hao Medical Diagnosis Centre in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Ngoc Van is the pride of Vietnamese ballet. He was the first artist to work with the English National Ballet back in 2003, and recently returned to Vietnam at the invitation of  VNOB). Van choreographs 

Visitors to Vietnam this November will enjoy seeing the blooming wild sunflowers in the central city of Da Lat or buckwheat flowers in the rocky plateau of the northernmost province of Ha Giang.

 The escalating trade dispute between the US and China is causing headaches for Vietnam when dealing with the re-routing of goods, and could lead to it becoming a “transshipment hub” for overseas products.

 Phan Thi Thuan in Hanoi's My Duc district is the first artisan in Vietnam who can make silk from lotus stems. After 40 years of working with silk, she decided to make silk from lotus 2 years ago.

Located at the corner of Le Duan – Hai Ba Trung streets, an advantageous position in the central area of the city, Hard Rock Café HCMC, covering an area of 1,000 square meters, has been a favorite destination for foreigners for nine years. 

The National Assembly’s economics committee warned that the target of developing 1 million businesses by 2020 may be unattainable, especially as barriers hindering businesses still exist and the number of dissolved businesses is on the rise.

Aikido, a defensive martial art from Japan, focuses on improving children’s mental endurance and resilience.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of paintings by Vietnamese artist Hoang Dinh and his Dutch colleague Somsak Chaituch will be on display this week at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum. 

 Despite suffering the succession of lawsuits, anti-dumping tax imposed from abroad, as well as the increasingly fierce competition in the domestic market, Vietnam steel industry still targets to grow more than 20% in this year. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Investing in renewable energy is an emerging trend in Vietnam in response to worsening environmental destruction and the gradual disappearance of essential livelihoods. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – "Everything that I am now is due to my love for cải lương," said Lam Thi Kim Cuong of Soc Trang Province, the winner of HCM City Television’s 2018 Chuông Vàng (Golden Bell) Award.

Truong Anh Dung, deputy director general of the Directorate of Vocational Education under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs talks to Tuổi trẻ newspaper on the need for co-operation between MOET and MOLISA.

The sister of a two-year-old from Nam Tu Liem District in Ha Noi phoned Doctor Nguyen Thi Thu Hoa to tell her the young boy is in good health after receiving intensive care in the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology

 The Ministry of Health’s Drug Administration of Vietnam affirmed enough combined vaccine against Tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis following the information of shortage of combined vaccine in infirmaries.