Vietnamese players lost to stronger opponents on Thursday in the fourth day of the 43rd World Chess Olympiad 2018 in Batumi City, Georgia.

 Hanoi authorities have started to hold cultural activities at the Van Lake in the Temple of Literature which was closed off for years.

 Vietnam has been ranked 14th among the best countries for expats after InterNations drew on its 3.2 million members and surveyed over 18,000 expats from 178 nationalities living in 187 countries or territories.

 Nearly 1,000 Vietnamese labours returned home after finishing their export labour contracts in South Korea in the first half of 2018, according to a report from the Vietnam Labour Management Board.

 Fitch Ratings expects Vietnamese banks to sustain their improving operating trends in the second half of 2018 (H2) on the heels of better credit quality and profitability, and broadly stable funding and liquidity in the first half.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh engaged in a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the high-level general debate at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York. 

 Vietnam’s U16 football team were knocked out of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U16 Championship after losing 5-0 to Iran in the final match of Group C in Malaysia on September 27.

Many fast food chains, from fried chicken to pizza, have been incurring losses.

 Vietnam has proposed initiatives to enhance the role of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in coping with climate change. 

 The GDP growth rate for the January-September period was 6.98 percent, the highest for the same period over the past eight years, the General Statistics Office announced on September 28.  

 The Ministry of Information and Communications is encouraging the development of broadband infrastructure to complete the 4G network and begin work on 5G as early as possible to enhance the performance of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Viet Nam was one of three countries added onto FTSE Russell’s watch list for a possible future upwards reclassification.

 The latest US tariffs on Chinese auto parts was likely to hit Viet Nam’s rubber industry, said the head of the Vietnam Rubber Association (VRA)’s Rubber Development Consulting Division Tran Thi Thuy Hoa.

 Low consumption, high inventory and continuously plunging prices mean tough times for domestic sugar mills, said chairman of the Viet Nam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA) Pham Quoc Doanh.

 Ship 015-Tran Hung Dao of the Vietnam People’s Navy arrived at Yokosuka naval base in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture on September 27, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper reported.

The profitability rate of Vietnam’s high-end real estate is much more attractive than in other ASEAN countries, which explains why Asian realtors are flocking to Vietnam.

Startup funds only reserve 10 percent of their capital in agriculture, a field which bears high risks.

 Vietnam and the United Nations have inked a memorandum of understanding on Vietnam’s deployment of a field hospital to South Sudan.

 Leaders of foreign countries and international organisations have continued to offer condolences over the passing of President Tran Dai Quang to the Party, State, Government and people of Vietnam and his bereaved.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a seminar on investment attraction to Vietnam in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with more than 40 leading businesses of the US in New York city on September 27.