VietNamNet Bridge – Ten troupes are attending a lion dance competition held in Hue.

 Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang passed away at 10:05am on September 21 in Hanoi at the age of 62.

VinFast’s first two car models, one sedan and one SUV, will have selling prices of no less than VND1 billion, similar to luxury models Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and Lexus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the last two months, people have been flocking to the Song Hinh Hydropower plant’s reservoir in the central province of Phu Yen to find black stones, worth VND4 million per kilo.

 Denis Brunetti, president of Ericsson Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos sheds light on the preparation for 5G, and how the technology will benefit Vietnam and its industries, and accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A proposal to build a north-south axial road in HCM City running through districts 4, 7 and Nha Be through a public-private-partnership (PPP) has been approved by the City People’s Committee.

 Phu Nhuan Jewelry JSC (code: PNJ) has been fined to dozens of millions of dong in tax.

 Importers of 175cc engine motorbikes and above will no longer have to register for automatic import licences at the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

 Earlier this week, the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) issued a directive to hasten the restructuring of credit institutions associated with resolving bad debts.

 The proliferation of foreign fast fashion brands in Vietnam is heating up the local sector and drawing in more and more newcomers, which forces local brands to transform and improve their capacity to compete. 

 Vietnam is confronting challenges in the process of restructuring the public financial sector, Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan said during a forum on Thursday.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang  Nam defeated Alejandro Moro Canas of Spain 2-1 in the men’s singles first round of the Spain F28 Futures tennis tournament in Madrid on September 19.

 South Korean publishing house iStory will release a book by Vietnamese author Le Huy Khoa to mark the Southeast Asia Football Federation (AFF) Cup at the end of this year.

Breathtaking natural landscapes of Ky Co and Trung Luong beaches in the central coastal city of Quy Nhon have attracted a large number of visitors.

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has issued an alert after finding that a number of websites promoting dietary supplements and health products violated advertising regulations.

Since it officially joined the UN on Sept. 20, 1977, Vietnam has taken the initiative and made practical contributions to the UN’s activities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Awards for talented artists were given out at the National Cải Lương (Reformed Opera) Festival 2018, which closed on Wednesday in Tan An City in Long An Province.

 Vietnamese designer Phuong My has recently introduced her latest collection, 'Sonorous', at Vancouver Fashion Week in Canada.

 Vietnam’s U19 team had to fight back to take a 3-1 win over the Ivory Coast in their second match of the four-nation international friendly tournament held in Qatar on September 19.

 With the outlook for Vietnam’s tourism industry bright, international hotel operators are flocking to Vietnam in order to profit from the market’s high growth potential and increasingly diversified tourist arrivals.

 About 95 musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra will perform in the Vietnam Airlines Classic-Hanoi Concert 2018, scheduled to take place on the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem lake on October 6.

 Economists are anxious that the Vietnamese economy is on the verge of losing its growth momentum, heard attendees at a forum, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

 2019 will be a challenging year for Vietnam’s textile and garment industry as it needs to obtain major breakthroughs to take on new roles in the global value chain.

 A Vietjet Air passenger has been banned from flying for 12 months after claiming to airport employees that there was a bomb in the luggage.  

 The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is proposing to build a decree on data connection and sharing with an aim to create a legal framework and accelerate the Government’s administrative reforms.