International tourist arrivals to Vietnam in the first nine months totaled 7.265 million, an increase of 25 per cent year-on-year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

 The government has signed a $231.3 million loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to enhance the power transmission network in southern Vietnam.

 At least 21 people have died, eight are missing, and many are injured after severe flooding hit a number of central provinces.

The HCMC Department of Construction has recently proposed to the city’s People’s Committee a number of practical solutions for the city’s Property Market Development Project in the 2016-2020 Period, Orientation to 2025, and Vision to 2030.

As of August 2016, Unitel, a joint venture of Viettel Global Joint Stock Company and Lao Asia Telecom from Laos, reached $1 billion and $300 million in cumulative revenue and profit, respectively, since starting operation in September 2009.

VinaCapital opposed the latter’s decision to carry out the $10.6 billion steel complex in the central province of Ninh Thuan due to concerns over environmental pollution.

 Vedan Vietnam Enterprise Corporation Limited (Vedan Vietnam) is the second 100 per cent foreign-owned company that wants to directly import coal to fuel its own plant’s operations in Long Thanh district of the southern province of Dong Nai.

It’s October, autumn in northern Vietnam, and the sunflowers in the fields with their golden heads as wide as sombreros lifted towards the sun are more beautiful than any other time of the year.

 Books need a space in which events honouring reading culture can take place and readers can share their passion for reading while holding direct dialogues with authors.

 Ross O’Connell Jennings, a 26-year-old bagpiper from Scotland, will hit Vietnam as the 55th country on his world tour on October 24.

 Since Vietnam began its renewal process in 1986, its fine arts have flourished.

 Tour operators in HCM City have had to drop so-called floating tours to the Mekong Delta from September to November, which is supposed to be the flooding season in the delta, as floods have not come to the region this year.

 Vietnam Sugar cane and Sugar Association (VSSA) has proposed that the Prime Minister allow importing raw sugar instead of refined sugar to save foreign currency for the 2016-17 crop.

 No regulations require Vietjet to hold their initial public offering (IPO) in Vietnam before moving to an offshore market.

 The national flag air carrier Vietnam Airlines has completed procedures to become a joint-stock company, the corporation announced on October 16. 

 The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has announced that Japan will help Vietnam prevent flooding through the establishment of special-purpose companies.

 Close to 39,000 Vietnamese students are studying in Japan in 2016, rising 47 percent compared to 2014 figure. 

 Most national highways in the central coastal province of Quang Binh were reopened to traffic on October 16 after the recent flood.

 The Preventative Health Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed two more cases inflected with Zika virus in Ho Chi Minh City, raising the total number of infections in the country to seven.

 Vietnamese shares may continue to rise this week, as a difference in pricing between blue chips and speculative stocks, as well as prospects of solid third-quarter earnings reports, could keep investor confidence positive.

 No 4 seed Jordan Thompson won the Vietnam Open tennis tournament which closed yesterday in HCM City.

 Supreme Chonburi club of Thailand won the VTV International Women’s Volleyball Tournament on Saturday in Ha Nam Province.

 Two earthquakes, measured 3.1 and 3.4 on the Richter scale, hit the mountainous districts of Tay Giang and Phuoc Son on Saturday morning (October 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coach Hoang Anh Tuan of Viet Nam said his players were in high spirits before their match against the United Arab Emirates today at the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championship in Bahrain.

 The Prime Minister has agreed in principle to allow the HCM City administration to apply bidding selection forms in special cases under Article 26 of the Law on Bidding to select a contractor for a tidal flood control project for the city.