Vietnam Airlines has banned transporting Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones on its flights, including carry-on luggage and shipments, the airline announced on October 17. 

 Storm Sarika is expected to enter the Tonkin Gulf and head toward Vietnam’s coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Nam Dinh on October 19 with winds up to 165km per hour, according to the National Forecast Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre. 

 A chopper of the Vietnam Helicopter Corporation lost contact on October 18 morning during a flight training session in the northwest of Dinh Mountain in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. 

 The New Zealand government said on October 17 that it is to review its free trade agreement (FTA) with ASEAN, citing a rising number of non-tariff barriers that hinder bilateral trade. 

Twelve Vietnamese and Indonesian artists are displaying their artworks at an international exhibition on contemporary dialogue at the Crowne Plaza West Hanoi until late this month.

“Ballet with Tchaikovsky and Ravel” featuring two world-renowned pieces, “Bolero” choreographed by Maurice Béjart and music by Maurice Ravel and “Serenade” choreographed by George Balanchine and music by Piotr Tchaikovsky will come back to HCMC.

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.