Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception on October 31 for new Bangladeshi Ambassador to Vietnam Samina Naz, during which he affirmed that Vietnam always pays great attention to developing partnership with the South Asian country.

 The Law on Special Administrative-Economic Units must create breakthroughs in mechanisms and preferential incentives to boost economic development, experts have said.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on October 31 for AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito, during which he said Vietnam wants Belgian businesses to invest more in the Southeast Asian country.

Legislators discussed the results of the implementation of the socio-economic development and State budget plans for 2017 during the plenary sitting on October 31.

 Having been familiar with Halloween for a long time, Duy Anh and his younger sister Thuy Trang have always enjoyed the eventful and spooky atmosphere.

 The People’s Council of the northeastern border province of Quang Ninh has approved a project proposing the establishment of Van Don special administrative-economic unit at its sixth meeting of the 13th tenure in Ha Long city.

VietNamNet Bridge – Dr Nguyen Thien Tao has discovered more than 40 amphibians and reptilian species, including the Trung Khanh viper.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese drug and medical instrument market is expected to have value estimated to exceed $10 billion per annum by 2020.

Vietnamese digital firms have urged the government to take necessary measures to force cross-border service providers to set up legal entities in Vietnam and fulfill tax obligations.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ministry of Education and Industry has decided that Vietnam needs to have an additional 20,000 PhDs by 2020. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A two-day workshop on reality-based sound with sound wizard Ernst Karel will be organized at VUI Studio, 3C Tong Duy Tan Street, Hanoi on November 6, 8 (10am-6pm).

Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi will be reproduced at Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2017.

Ninety contestants of the Miss Earth 2017 pageant took part in a swimsuit contest judged by the press at the Diamond Hotel, Manila, the Philippines on October 30.

 Despite the Law on Housing 2015 which gives greater room to foreigners to own properties in Vietnam, the number of foreigners who have purchased real estate is increasing, but remains modest.

 Police in Nghe An Province has arrested the leaders of two local companies for producing and trading fake petrol.

 Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has issued a resolution on population and family planning in which families would be no longer encouraged to have only two children and couples with three children or more will not be fined.

 A festival featuring the worship of Mother Goddesses will bring many folk artists from across the nation to Hanoi on November 9-13.

 Binh Thuan Province People’s Committee has proposed to the Government a plan to adjust exploration and exploitation of titanium in the locality.

 Two schoolgirls in central QuangTri Province drowned on Monday while playing on a local dyke, which was inundated under rainwater.

The US’s American Journal of case reports recently announced the world’s first successful application of bone marrow mononuclear cells transplant to treat bronchopulmonary dysplasia at the Vinmec Medical System.