Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index reached a 10-year high last week on the back of a few blue chips. However, the gain was unstable and the index could face a short-term drop in the coming sessions.

 Chief of General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Phan Van Giang led a defence delegation to visit Cuba from September 8-11 at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart Sen. Lieut. Gen. Alvaro Lopez Miera.

 A draft amendment to higher education law proposes clarifying university assessment measures and making them uniform so that university rankings can be more precise in the future.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Northern provinces are expected to receive heavy rain until Tuesday, possibly causing landslides and flash floods according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorogical Forecasting.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A stretch of a major embankment on National Route 24 in the Central Highlands city of Kon Tum has eroded while under construction.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many cruise ships want to enter HCMC but they have to dock at other localities because of the lack of harbors.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The large number of base transceiver stations (BTS) - antenna-like equipment for wireless communication - is creating management risks and blighting the urban landscape in Ha Noi.

 The central highland city of Da Lat in Lam Dong Province will be Viet Nam’s representative to receive the fourth ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable City at the fifteenth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the People’s Committee of Binh Dinh and other authorised agencies to promptly investigate media reports of  deforestation in the central province and report back to him before October 30.

 Five golfers will represent Vietnam at the World Amateur Golfers Championship (WAGC) 2017 in Malaysia this November.

The HCM City will open a new pedestrian-only book street on Nguyen Dong Chi Street in District 7 in October, offering a series of activities promoting reading culture for more than 300,000 residents in districts 7, 2 and 8. 

 A rare Vietnamese satin, called My A, will be featured in clothes for women and men by young fashion designers at the catwalk event "The Dreamers" in HCM City next month. 

 Hanoi Buffaloes suffered a home defeat yesterday in a showdown with Cantho Catfish.

 Nguyen Thi Ngoan of Vietnam won a gold medal at the Karate 1-Premier League in Halle/Leipzig, which closed yesterday in Germany.

After an initial visual survey, a Quang Binh expert said that the grave recently unearthed by local farmers is not an ancient one, but actually dates to the era of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945). 

 Vu Thi Trang took a silver medal in the Vietnam Open badminton tournament, which concluded in HCM City yesterday.

France, Germany, Italy and Spain want digital multinationals like Amazon and Google to be taxed in Europe based on their revenues, rather than only profits as now, 

 The European Union’s economic and financial committee has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic policy and is worried that his efforts to boost protectionism pose a threat to the global economy, 

 Hurricane Irma knocked out power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses in Florida on Sunday, threatening millions more as it crept up the state’s west coast, and full restoration of service could take weeks, 

Though bitcoins are not recognized as legal currency in Vietnam, Vietnamese are still rushing to buy computers with strong configuration to mine bitcoins, leading to a sharp increase in computer imports.

After 10 years of being left idle, the Vietnam International University Township (VIUT) project proposed by Berjaya is facing closure. Many other foreign invested projects are in the same situation.

A group of students from FPT University has suggested using a sensor system which can recognize trains and automatically turn on warning devices at intersections between railways and roads.

  Many companies have voiced their concern about a draft Government decree on management of organic produce, as it may make the management of agricultural product chains overlap.

Realizing that waste is a ‘gold mine’ which can be recycled to generate power, one investor has spent tens of millions of dollars to develop projects to turn waste into electricity in HCMC and Tay Ninh and Binh Duong provinces.

Experts believe that the low quality of master’s and PhD theses is the consequence of the training system in which both students and teachers do not strive for genuine academic achievement.