The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) on October 20 appointed Thomas William Tobin as Retail Banking Director, the bank’s first foreign senior executive.

 National Assembly Secretary General Nguyen Hanh Phuc chaired a press conference in Hanoi on October 20 to announce planned agenda for the fourth session of the 14th legislature slated for October 23. 

  The Museum of Cham Sculpture in the central city of Da Nang on October 20 opened an exhibition titled “The World of Vietnam in Microcosms” by Japanese artist Toba Mika.

 The 24th APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting – the most important event of the APEC Finance Ministers Process - opened in Hoi An ancient city in the central province of Quang Nam on October 21.

 Latvia wants to strengthen multifaceted cooperation with Vietnam, particularly between the two legislatures, Speaker of the Latvian Parliamentary Assembly of Inara Munierce has said. 

A high-ranking military delegation of Vietnam led by Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich will attend the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM), the 4th ADMM-Plus (ADMM+).

 Ta Dinh Huy started inventing in 2005 and faced many failures. However, he was not disheartened but improved his machine.

 As many as 14,346 traffic accidents occurred nationwide from December 16, 2016 to September 15, 2017, leaving 6,113 dead and 11,785 injured.

 Paintings on linen, by ethnic children from Quan Ba district in the northern province of Ha Giang, will be the highlight of the Son Luc exhibition.

  More than 200 photos featuring the beauty of Vietnam’s seas and islands are being showcased at Joseph Gallery in Paris, France.

 Kate Festival, the largest traditional festival of Vietnam’s Cham ethnic minority people, has been recognised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as an intangible cultural heritage.

The recent Vietnam-US defence policy dialogue concretised the contents reached by the two countries’ defence ministers.

Thanh Hoa asked to keep close watch on disaster developments, Vietnam receives 33 documentaries from Netherlands, Community-based environmental monitoring suggested for papermaker

 Viettel’s Peru branch makes $45-million 4G investment, PwC: Vietnam a rising economy in Asia, Related party transaction practices in need of improvement, Navigos Group teams up with Korea International Trade Association

 The 24th APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting closed in Hoi An ancient city in the central province of Quang Nam on October 21 after issuing a joint ministerial statement.

 Unions between Korean financial institutions and Vietnamese securities or asset management firms are on trend, with visible upsides for both parties. 

VietNamNet Bridge - No longer solely dependent on imports, Vietnam now can make petroleum products to satisfy domestic demand at its local oil refineries.

 While flood damage prevents fishermen from going to work, the locals in the Mekong Delta find another way to make a living by making fishing nets and small boats.

Nguyen Van Tan, deputy director general of the Office for Population-Family Planning, under the Ministry of Health talks to Zing.vn about urbanisation, maintaining population growth and the dramatic gender imbalance ...

VietNamNet Bridge - Located in advantageous positions and providing services at high fees, some luxury hotels have been taking losses.

 Elke Schwierz has enjoyed every moment at Cuc Phuong National Park in northern Ninh Binh Province for the past 15 years.

Seven sculptors and ten painters from Spain, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Viet Nam have been living and working together for an entire month. On October 28, they will open their studio at Flamingo Dai Lai Resort

Eleven ethnic-minority households in the Hoang Su Phi District of Ha Giang Province are operating an experimental home-stay service as part of a project to improve the livelihood of ethnic minorities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Watching 31-year-old Ngo Sy Dat work hard on his farm in Bac Giang Province, it is hard to imagine that he was a member of the national boxing team not too long ago.

The achievement of the Vietnamese team this year reminds us of Le Ba Khanh Trinh, who honored Vietnam by winning aperfect score at the IMO in 1979, plus a special prize for the smartest answer.