The Lotte Group revealed that its e-commerce website, lotte.vn, would be officially launched this Friday.

 CMC Telecom is the only Vietnamese information, communication and technology (ICT) firm voted among the top 25 most promising telecom solution providers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) market.

  A Dutch business delegation with executives from 34 companies and knowledge institutions led by Vice Minister for Foreign Trade of the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marten van den Berg ended a two-day visit to Viet Nam on October 26.

 The government of HCM City has approved a pilot factory project that will treat 200 kilos of rubbish a day for power generation at the Phuoc Hiep Rubbish Dump Area. 

 Residents who live around Hanoi’s Van Quan Lake are complaining that the lake, once a beautiful spot, has become very polluted and is stinking up its surroundings.

 Vietnam’s U19 team will meet Japan in the semi-final of the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) U19 Championship on October 27 in Bahrain.

 Vietnam’s top female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien earned a slot in the finals of the 200m medley category in the ongoing FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Japan.

A bamboo building inside Muong Museum, 80 kilometres west of Hanoi, has just been awarded a silver prize in the Cultural Architecture category by the organisers of the American Architecture Prize 2016.

 The Supreme People’s Procuracy has decided to prosecute three former officers of Vinashin Ocean Shipping Company Ltd, or Vinashinlines on charges of embezzlement.

 A secondary school teacher in this central province was forced to resign as class teacher today after he admitted to badly beating six of his students with a ruler.

 To ensure traffic order and safety, HCM City’s Department of Transport has decided to ban private buses with more than 25 seats on some streets in District 10 including Le Hong Phong, Vinh Vien and Tran Nhan Ton from 6am to 10pm, starting October 29.

 Tran Ngoc Thanh, who was appointed chairman of Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) in April 2015, has submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

Three Vietnamese fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates for more than four years returned home to a tumultuous reception in Hanoi yesterday.

 An ASEAN regional business council (RBC) gathering 55 leaders of big enterprises is set to make debut at the World Economic Forum on the Mekong Region (WEF-Mekong) in Hanoi. 

 Policy makers from ASEAN and its three partners of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea discussed how to ensure sustainable production and consumption through sustainable value chains at a programme that opened in Hanoi on October 25.

 Vietnam and Thailand will work closely with each other and with international organisations to use and manage Mekong river water resources efficiently to ensure interests of the river basin nations.

 Countries in the Mekong region should enhance their economic and infrastructure connectivity and particularly develop complete sub-regional economic corridors, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

  Pratibha Mehta, the United Nations’ Resident Coordinator and Development Programme Resident Representative in Vietnam, was presented a friendship order from the Vietnamese State in Hanoi on October 25.

 Hoang Binh Quan, Head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations on October 25 received Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, who visited Vietnam for the first time as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

 14th National Assembly deputies discussed the bill on associations at their plenary session of the ongoing second meeting in Hanoi on October 25. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese contestant Nguyen Thi Loan appeared on the stage of the semi-final night of Miss Grand International 2016 pageant in swimsuit and evening gown last night.

 The first Zika virus infection in the southern province of Long An was announced by the provincial Health Department at a press conference on October 24, raising the total number of infections in the country to 11.

Around 60 plays by artists from over 20 countries have registered to take part in the 3rd International Experimental Theatre Festival, which will be held from November 12-19 in Hanoi. 

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) last week announced the preliminary results of the administrative review of the anti-dumping duty imposed on some of Vietnam’s oil country tubular goods (OCTG).

 The ASEAN Regional Business Council (RBC) has been launched in Hanoi with the aim of promoting public-private cooperation on the most pressing issues facing Southeast Asia.