VietNamNet Bridge - Many casinos have been or are going to open in the central region, particularly on the coast.

 Karaoke clubs and discotheques will be allowed to stay open two hours later under a new proposal introduced by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which would extend closing time from midnight until 2 am.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Champions Hanoi beat bottom-ranked team Can Tho 3-0 in the penultimate round to officially lift the trophy of the V.League 1 on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Players from HCM City have triumphed at the National Table Tennis Championship held in the Central Hilands province of Dak Lak.

Some online lenders that offer very high interest rates are in fact a form of ‘black’ credit and the State Bank of VN (SBV) is not responsible for management over such activities, SBV deputy governor Nguyen Thi Hong has said.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam is carefully studying international models of peer-to-peer lending (P2P) to develop a legal framework to effectively manage the country’s nascent fintech business.

The model of distributing insurance products via banks has contributed to increasing insurers’ revenue, but experts warned that the overheating growth of the business could cause insurers to have to pay compensations.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a project to build a set of criteria to evaluate the corporate development of the country and of each province and city separately.

 Viet Nam’s biggest dairy firm Vinamilk is eyeing foreign markets in the hopes of offseting the declining growth in the local market.

 Efficient restructuring of the agricultural sector has brought good results in production and business in the last few months, so the sector expects to gain stronger growth in production and business this year and beyond, said experts.

 Organisations and individuals using e-commerce websites will not be required to notify or register with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) from October 18.

 Over 4,900 scrap containers left unclaimed for 90 days are piling up at major seaports across the country, raising environmental concerns.

 Five young talented Vietnamese footballers had the chance to train in Barcelona with one of the leading professional football clubs in the world.

 Thai Son Nam easily crushed bottom-placed team Kim Toan Da Nang 6-1 in the last round of the National Futsal Championship to take the title yesterday.

 Korean pop star Sunmi and boy band Seventeen will perform in a South Korean and Vietnamese exchange concert in HCM City later this month.

 The HCM City Department of Health has instructed medicine manufacturers, importers, exporters and retail drugstores to strictly comply with regulations on the trade of drugs.

 The southern province of Tay Ninh lured nearly 20 trillion VND (858 million USD) from eight investors to implement 10 solar power projects with a combined capacity of 808 MW by the end of September.

 The preparation for the 2018 Gong Cultural Festival slated for November 9 - 11 in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has been basically completed.

 Vietnam’s popular destinations and excellent tourism products will be brought closer to Chinese friends through a promotion campaign launched by the VNAT in Guangxi province’s Nanning city and Guangdong province’s Shenzhen city.

 Vietnam is a promising tourism market that ranks among its 10 biggest anywhere and four biggest in Southeast Asia, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has said.

 Vinfast Manufacturing and Trading Company Limited, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, unveiled two of its new car models at the 120th Paris Motor Show on October 2.

The Van Don-Mong Cai highway in Quang Ninh will be constructed under the BOT and PPP contract at the total cost of $474.4 million, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

 The Vietnam Frontier Summit 2018, a one-day conference, will take place in Hanoi on October 6 with the theme ‘Fostering innovation with frontier technologies’.

 Vietnam could earn about 239 billion USD in export revenue in 2018, up 10 – 12 percent from last year, analysts said, thanks to the favourable domestic and international economic context.

 Vietnamese pop star Dong Nhi will give two performances at the second Japan-ASEAN Music Festival 2018 in Tokyo on October 4.