VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam topped the Group A of the ASEAN Football Federation Futsal HDBank Championship after their 18-0 win over Brunei in HCM City yesterday.

 The HCM City People’s Committee has proposed that the Ministry of Construction apply a high tax on second and subsequent homes, as well as when there are a high number of real estate transactions within a year.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in October rose 0.41 per cent from the previous month and 2.98 per cent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units must create breakthroughs in mechanisms and preferential incentives to boost economic development, experts have said.

 Vietnamese masters won two gold medals at the World Youth U14, U16, and U18 Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, which is ongoing in Greece.

 Vietinbank pocketed their first National Super Volleyball Cup in their fourth attempt after beating VTV Binh Dien Long An 3-1 in the final match on Saturday.

 Vietnamese Nguyen Van Phuong championed the PTT-ITF Junior Grade 4 tennis tournament in Thailand yesterday.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong has signed a CPV Central Committee resolution on public health which sets a goal for 95 percent of the population to be covered by health insurance by 2025.

 A father and daughter died yesterday when a motorbike and a truck crashed into each other in central Ha Tinh Province.

 A group of ten children affected in different ways by Agent Orange look intently as “Teacher Yo” threads beads with a thin string to make bracelets.

 Centres specialising in using robots to treat diseases and cancers are being developed in HCM City in order to treat people throughout the country and foreign tourists, according to HCM City Department of Health.

 Many farmers in the Mekong Delta are regretting that they did not stockpile any rice as prices rise continuously and supply remains limited.

 A thorough audit of all State-owned agricultural businesses will be carried out in 2019 following next year’s concentrated restructuring efforts, so as to identify underperforming firms and other issues facing the sector.

 Vietnamese people have a traditional fondness for learning. The tradition has been upheld via temples of literature across the country. Built years ago, Xich Dang temple of literature in the northern province of Hung Yen is one such example.

 Since Vietnam joined the APEC forum in 1998, the forum has become an important force supporting the country’s economic reform and restructuring, growth model shift and global economic integration, including the entry to the World Trade Organisation. 

 Vietnamese film “Cha va con va…” (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories) was screened at the Crosscut Asia programme under the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) taking place in Japan from October 25-November 3.

 Vietnam is on the verge of recognizing Bitcoin as form of payment but concerns remain.

 The market trend of heavy dependence on several individual stocks generated some volatility in last week’s trades.

 Located 80 kilometres from the mainland, Quang Ninh province’s Co To island, a rough pearl in the Gulf of Tonkin with turquoise sea and tranquil beaches, has grown in popularity among domestic and international visitors.

If Vietnamese textile and garment companies cannot organize fabric production, the industry will have to import 15 out of 18 billion square meters of fabric it needs by 2025. If so, Vietnam will forever do outsourcing for foreign companies. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Though it believes a 6.7 percent GDP growth rate in 2017 is ‘within reach’, the Ministry of Planning & Investment (MPI) has set a 6.5 percent growth rate for 2018.

Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai, Dean of Chemistry, at the HCMC University of Natural Sciences, has discovered that Vietnam’s propolis has very strong anti-cancer activity, especially for pancreatic cancer.

Nguyen An Nien, a leading water resources expert, says that controlling floods remains a thorny problem in HCM City.

Experts have warned schools about the need to ensure security for students as the number of accidents has arisen. 

 Phu Do Village in Hanoi’s outlying district of Nam Tu Liem is famous for its 400-year-old craft of making fresh rice vermicelli. The village’s progenitor Ho Nguyen Tho was a native of Thanh Hoa province.