The tourism sector in the four central provinces suffering from the seawater pollution caused in April by Taiwanese steel maker Formosa Ha Tinh has reported thousands of billions of dong in lost revenues.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dao Thinh bronze jar is one of 104 natural treasures of Vietnam. It is now preserved at the National History Museum in Hanoi.

 VND851.38 trillion (US$39 billion) was raised for the national target program on rural development in 2010-2015, says a government report just sent to National Assembly (NA) deputies.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested an investigation into the discharge of water from the Ho Ho Hydropower Plant dam to define which organisations and individuals were responsible in order to compensate affected people.

About VND53.50 billion ($2.4m) from the state budget has been used to compensate for people who were given wrong sentences within the past 12 months.

VietNamNet Bridge - National Assembly’s deputies think that it is necessary to set up public debt clocks in the central areas of large cities.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many flower gardens along the shore of the Red River in Hanoi have become tourist destinations. Let’s discover some of them.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Wings defeated Danang Dragons and set a record at the Viet Nam Basketball League on October 16 in HCM City. 

 Viet Nam’s top player Ly Hoang Nam pocketed a first round win at the Viet Nam Men’s Futures F7 tennis tournament yesterday (Oct 17) in Binh Duong Province.

HCM City’s bad debts down to 3.8 percent, Central Highlands reduces coffee area, SBIC to divest capital from PV Shipyard, Nghi Son EZ has 28 more investment projects, Binh Minh Plastics to lift foreign holding cap by year-end

Jackpot winner claims she will give away money, Hanoi spends big on rural development, Patients find relief in traditional-modern mix, Boy missing after heavy rain in Binh Duong, Rockslide kills three miners, injures one

 The Hanoi People’s Committee has decided to restart the riverside megacity project along the Red River, called Song Hong City, after 22 years on the drawing board.

 Consumer electronics retailer The Gioi Di Dong recently opened a batch of sealed boxes of iPhone 6s Plus to find that the boxes contain rocks instead of phones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam is on the edge of the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championship’s knock-out round, after their 1-1 draw against the United Arab Emirates yesterday in Manama, Bahrain.

Tom Cruise stars as the aggrieved former U.S. military officer in sequel "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back", promising "a level of unique brutality" in the new film based on Lee Childs' books. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Zika virus has been discovered in a small sampling of Aedes mosquitos in the costal city of Nha Trang, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology reported.

 How wonderfully Hanoian! Hundreds of young cyclists dressed in vintage Ao Dai take to the streets on October 17 with their bikes. As well, 50 artists follow, cycling on old fashioned cyclos.

 Hoang Thanh Trang has added another feather to her cap, emerging victorious at the Hungary women’s blitz chess tournament held recently in Budapest.

 The industrial real estate market has picked up pace in 2016 as foreign investment continues to pour in Vietnam.

 The economic growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2016 must be much higher than that of previous months in order to achieve the GDP growth set for this year, the Government reported to the National Assembly Standing Committee on October 17.

 The Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) is actively supervising the recall and exchange programme of all Galaxy Note 7 models from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Viet Nam Co Ltd (SEMV).

 A baby born with suspected microcephaly ​has been reported in Krong Buk district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, according to the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine.

The northern mountainous province of Cao Bang has welcomed its first baby conceived via intrauterine insemination, marking the development of the local health sector in applying advanced technology in treatment.

 Vietnam will suspend the import of Distiller’s dried grains with soluble (DDGS) from the US and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) from Sudan and Hong Kong (China) due to the products’ contamination with insects subject to Vietnam’s plant quarantine. 

Prolonged heavy rain due to a tropical low pressure from October 14 - 15 inundated many streets and residential areas in the central provinces of Nghe An and Quang Binh.