Vietnamese Nguyen Quoc Hy won a silver medal at the World Cadets U8, U10 and U12 Chess Championships, which ended on October 30 in Georgia. 

 Vietnam Airlines officially launched its Airbus A350-900 XWB on the Ho Chi Minh City-Osaka (Japan) route on October 30. 

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed Viet Nam’s first microcephaly case likely related to the Zika virus.  

 The Republic of Korea ranked first in the second Vietnam International Judo Championship 2016 by winning 10 golds, and three bronzes.

 The market capitalisation to GDP ratio in Vietnam as of October 19 was 40 percent, Deputy Finance Minister Vu Thi Mai reported at the most recent regular Cabinet press conference.

 Retirement age will not be increased for workers doing hard and poisonous work, said Bui Sy Loi, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge - The devastation of the ecosystem around some islands in the East Sea is becoming serious because of China's dredging and construction activities for military purposes.

 The Government has built various measures to keep public debt within permitted levels, Minister – Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung has said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Low enrollment for many years has forced many vocational schools to stop operation. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Though they have similar qualifications to IT workers in Malaysia and Thailand, Vietnamese IT staff receive pay which is only higher than in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Bhutan.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though Formosa Ha Tinh has fixed 85 percent of the problems, experts are still worried about its coke-quenching technology and undersea discharge system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Significant parts of a dyke system in central Quang Tri Province was eroded by flooding early this month, threating the lives and crop of residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese and international designers will attend Viet Nam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2016 at the National Convention Centre in Ha Noi on November 1-6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) has called up 26 footballers to the national team to prepare for the international U22 friendly football tournament in China from November 8-13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), themed “Cinema-Integration and Sustainable Development,” will take place from November 1 to 5.

Japanese Superior Buddhist monk Sagawa Fumon, head of the Todaiji temple, and 34 representatives presented a bronze statue of the 11-faced Avalositesvara Bodhisattva to Da Nang’s Quan The Am Pagoda yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The mountains and hills in Hoa Nhon Commune of Hoa Phong District, seen from National Highway 14B, seem to have barely survived a particularly devastating disaster – except that this disaster is wholly man-made.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A land fund shortage has been blamed for overcrowding in Ha Noi public primary schools, forcing students to attend school on weekends in several areas.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 10 richest Vietnamese business people recognized by the media 10 years ago are no longer found in the top 10 list of stock millionaires.

To reach this glorious location you have to travel about 20 kilometers from the center of Bao Loc City, make a right to Dai Binh T Junction and go straight to Ta Ngao Commune, Loc Thanh District.

 Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage,

 MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation earned more than VNĐ2.50 trillion (US$111.11 million) in after-tax profit in the first half of this year, down two per cent over the same period last year.

Giant pumpkins weighing between 50 and 100 kilos from seeds grown in the US are a common sight on the family farm of Le Huu Phan in Da Lat in the central highland province of Lam Dong.

Viet Nam's trade deficit with other members of the Association of South East Asian Nations has been widening relentlessly in recent years, going up from US$3.2 billion in 2013 to $4 billion in 2014 and $5.5 billion last year.

No official was found lying in their asset declaration according to the Government Inspectorate at the meeting to review the anti-corruption fight of 2016 on October 28.