A member of the Vietnamese mission to the UN delivered a speech on poverty reduction during a debate held by the UN Economic and Financial Committee on “Eradication of poverty and other development issues” in New York on October 17.

 The US has asked Turkey for a recording said to provide strong evidence that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at Istanbul's Saudi consulate.

 Some of Japan's famed cherry blossoms, also known as sakura, have bloomed unexpectedly this autumn.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After three days, the repairs of defects on a key highway in the central region have been finished and are awaiting final assessment, according to the project’s investor.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Six million people in Vietnam managed to climb up the poverty ladder according to statistics released on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - FDI capital flow to the real estate sector soared to $5.5 billion in the first half of 2018.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) League 2017 champions Thang Long Warriors have opened a basketball training centre in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities will redesign a proposal for a bus rapid transit (BRT) route after the Department of Transport said the plan was not feasible. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two artists from Quang Tri and Ben Tre provinces won the Golden Medal prize at the 3rd National Magic Festival 2018 held at the HCM City Opera House on Monday.  

Plans to build a theatre worth some VND1.5 trillion in Thu Thiem New Urban Area, HCM City, have sparked a public opinion controversy, but Nguyen Thai Binh, speaker of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 

The HCM City People’s Economic Court on Wednesday began hearing the suit filed by taxi operator Vinasun against ride-hailing service Grab, accusing it of unfair business practices and demanding compensation of the VND42 billion ...

Huawei, Xiaomi and Nokia launched new products recently to compete with Samsung and Oppo, the two big players in the mid-tier market segment. 

The police reported that over 2,000 school violence cases were discovered last year in Vietnam. However, only a few hundred cases were reported by the education sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - The drought and saltwater intrusion in 2016, and the historic high tides this year, are indicators of things to come in the Mekong Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - The sale of business divisions can be seen as a move by foreign banks to restructure their operations and focus on core business fields to improve business efficiency.

 The Vietnamese Government is making concerted efforts to improve business climate for both domestic and foreign enterprises, including those from the Europe, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on October 17.

Bach Ma National Park, one of the biggest and most important protected areas in Vietnam, boasts vast, untapped eco-tourism potential and, as such, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is working to capitalise on this advantage.

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Vietnamese Government and the administration of Belgium’s Flemish region on October 17 as part of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to the European country.

 Vietnam can be proud to have helped 6 million people escape poverty from 2012 to 2016 under national multidimensional poverty standards, according to Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen. 

 The seventh annual Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival will be held on March 9 - 16, 2019 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak with a wide range of activities featuring the local specialty.