Preparations for the 2016 Asian Beach Games (ABG) were at the forefront of discussions during a conference held in central Da Nang city on October 6.  

 The fifth Science Film Festival in Vietnam themed “The World of Light” will take place from October 11 to December 6, the Goethe Institute announced on October 6. 

 The fourth International Puppetry Festival will take place in Hanoi from October 10-16, drawing puppeteers from host Vietnam and nine foreign countries. 

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will benefit Vietnam in not only economic but also institutional and social terms, said Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang. 

The completion of the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on October 5 has received positive response from many countries.  

 One person was killed and seven others were injured in a collision between two coaches carrying Vietnamese nationals in Laos’s central province of Salavan on October 5. 

The Vietnam-Korea Vocational College of Quang Ngai, one of five vocational colleges to be established nationwide using official development assistance funds from the Republic of Korea, commenced its first course on October 6 with 130 students. 

 The transport ministry and the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) today agreed to study the feasibility of a 500 km-long railway link from Laos' Vientiane to Vung Ang in central Ha Tinh Province of Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – At a private kindergarten in the central province of Quang Binh, three babysitters beat and bound a baby boy, and stuffed his mouth with cloth, according to police.

Tuition fees of the national civil educational system will rise 10 per cent starting from this December, according to a new decree signed by the Prime Minister.

 A sanitation worker at Noi Bai International Airport was fined VND7.5 million (US$350) on the charge of property theft at a restricted area of the airport.

Foreign invested enterprises now can more easily list their shares on Vietnamese stock markets under Decree 60 that allows foreign investors to hold up to 100 percent of stake in Vietnamese enterprises.

 VietNamNet Bridge - To collect wild honeycombs in the woods, hunters have to climb up trees tens of meters tall or cling to the rocks to poke the beehives.

 The number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year will be as high as 1.5 million - almost double the previous estimate,

 Facebook is to launch a satellite that will provide internet access to remote parts of Africa, the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Da Nang City Department of Natural Resources and the Environment is asking for a specific mechanism to restrict the housing scale and area that foreigners can lease or buy.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The month of the Halloween will be flooded with movies with a creepy atmosphere such as "Crimson Peak," “The Ghost of the Vuong Family” and "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Representatives of 27 universities, engineering schools, business schools and specialised institutions from France will take part in the 2015 French Education Fair on October 10 at the Rex Hotel in HCM City and October 11 at the Pullman Hotel

 VietNamNet Bridge – Veteran volleyball player Pham Thi Kim Hue has agreed to play for Thai Danish Nongrua, a female professional volleyball team in Khonkaen, Thailand.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ma Xuan Cuong has received a wild card to compete in the final round of the Carom Billiard three-Cushion World Cup in Istanbul on October 18.

 The number of the people killed in the mudslide that swamped the Guatemalan village of El Cambray II Thursday night has risen to 107, the government announced Sunday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's Law on Forest Protection and Development has become backwards and exposed numerous disadvantages, after more than 10 years of implementation,

In addition to a visit to the Hoa Binh hydropower plant, tourists can make a boat trip along Da River, stop at Thac Bo Cave and Thac Bo Temple worshipping Lady Thuong Ngan,and go to nearby villages of Muong people.

 The Government has issued Decree 81/2015/ND-CP dated September 18 which governs the contents, orders, procedures, and responsibilities for information disclosure of State owned enterprises (SOEs).

VietNamNet Bridge – At 6-9pm on October 4, candles were lit up by hundreds of students and people at the premises of the house No. 30 Hoang Dieu Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi to commemorate the second death anniversary of the legendary general.