Vietnam’s men’s national team are the favourites of many football fans anticipating a surprise winner of the ASEAN Football Federation Cup 2018 after their strong performances at the AFC U23 Championships and Asian Games.

 Vietnamese singer Vu Cat Tuong will represent her country when performing at the Asia Song Festival 2018, which is scheduled to take place in the Korean city of Busan over October 2-3.

 Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori will be a special guest at a live concert in Ho Chi Minh City on October 6.

 Vietnamese rice exports are expected to revive in the last quarter of the year following four months of stagnation, boosted by new purchase demand in some markets.

 The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, with its extensive tariff cuts for agri-food products, is prompting foreign companies to enter the Southeast Asian market seeking investment and business opportunities in these products.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese spend tens of trillion of dong every year to import luxury cars, though the average income per capita is at a medium level in Southeast Asia.

 Mergers and acquisitions transactions in the Vietnamese packaging industry continues strongly, with local companies becoming potential targets for foreign investors.

 The British Council has launched the FAMLAB (Film, Archive and Music Lab) fund to support projects that engage with the music or film heritage of Vietnam through contemporary mediums. 

 Many children from a village in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien have to cross a local stream to school by plastic bags.

 More than 100 young painters in Hue City alongside foreign ones gave 1-km old mossy walls at Lang Viet tourism complex in the city a makeover with mural paintings.

 Miss Eco International orgnisers have announced they will strip Vietnamese representative Thu Dung of her 3rd runner-up title following her being investigated as part of a prostitution ring.

 The upgrade of Noi Bai International Airport’s Terminal 1, which serves domestic flights, has been completed, raising its total capacity to 15 million passengers a year.

 Thousands of households in Thanh Hoa Province's Muong Lat District are facing food and clean water shortages following a recent flood.

 Peer to peer, or P2P, lending has been developing rapidly around the world in recent years with the establishment of many online lending companies, experts have said.

 Viet Nam’s Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG) will open an official Apple resale store in HCM City on September 10, according to cafef.vn.

 Chinese tourists are reportedly avoiding paying tax in Viet Nam, with the help of tourism companies.

The World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) is one of the largest multilateral diplomatic events hosted by Vietnam this year, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

 Unbaked construction materials are targeted to account for 30-40 percent of all materials used for building by 2020, according to a circular that has been approved by the Government.

 The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has cancelled the result of Mongolian wrestler Orkhon Purevdorj in the women’s 62kg category of the freshly-concluded Asian Games 2018 (ASIAD) in Indonesia due to testing positive to doping.

 The World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) will receive more than 1,000 delegates, including high-ranking government representatives and executives of regional and world-leading corporations.