Beta Media entered Vietnam’s cinema market as a new player focusing on the budget segment and has well and truly made a mark.

A send-off ceremony for security forces and a counter-terrorism exercise to protect security at the coming APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city were held on October 24.

 Fifteen teams from eight countries, including two Vietnamese teams, have been selected to present their smart city building solutions at the Demo Day of the Global Smart City Innovation Challenge for Vietnam (SCIC) competition in November.

 The Vietnam-US music night will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on October 29 with the return of acclaimed violinist Vu Viet Chuong, introducing well-known opera songs to the public. 

 Main activities of APEC Economic Leaders’ Week

 Prime Minister of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis expressed his wish to enhance people-to-people and cultural exchange, tourism and education-training cooperation with Vietnam during a working session with Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.

 As many as 45 fencers will represent Vietnam to battle in all competition categories at the sixth Asian U23 Championships 2017, scheduled to take place in Hanoi between October 26 and 31.

 The Ministry of Transport yesterday said that it has completed the pre-feasibility report of projects to build some stretches of North-South Expressway in 2017-2020 to submit to the National Assembly.

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2016, Vietnam received 10 million foreign travelers and served 62 million domestic travelers.

Vietnamese representative Huyen My and other 77 contestants from around the world took part in the preliminary competition at Miss Grand International 2017 held on Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province on October 23.

Representatives from Toray International-one of Japan’s largest producers of clothing items-are expected to come to Vietnam next month to work with authorities of Quang Ninh on a major plant in the province, also its first in Vietnam.

 Nguyen Hong Truong, deputy head of IDG Ventures Vietnam and one of the founders of Vietnam's start-up community, died on October 22 from a stroke.

 Two people have been killed and four others seriously injured in a fire which burnt down a house in Ho Chi Minh City's District 9 early Tuesday morning. 

 The number of corruption cases as well as death penalties handed to corrupted officials in the first three quarters of this year have increased compared to the same period last year, according to a government report.

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) has reported VND2.68 trillion (US$119 million) as its pre-tax profit for the third quarter, marking a yearly increase of 31 per cent.

 A delegation of Vietnamese fruit and vegetable export firms will travel to three European countries - France, Germany and Poland - to explore business opportunities there, baodautu.vn reported.

 Viet Nam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will compete in the Yonex French Open 2017, which begins today in Paris.

 More than 100 tonnes of precious old and new books will be sold very cheaply, with prices starting from VNĐ1,000, at northern Viet Nam’s  largest book fair. 

 The Vietnam Open 2017 tennis tournament began on October 23 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Many policies for the disabled remain impractical and have yet to help students with disabilities access tertiary education.