The online video streaming service YouTube is up and running again after an outage lasting almost two hours.

Japan’s Nikken Sekkei Civil Engineering Ltd. (NSC) won the first prize at an international contest for the planning design with a scale of 1/5000 in Can Gio district.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam must work closer together to make the shift to using more renewable energy.

 The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has agreed to allow the Lac Duong district to host the Second Lang Biang Pink Grass Festival 2018, which is scheduled to begin in late November.

 For the first time, the famous choreographer of the English National Ballet Theatre, Le Ngoc Van, has choreographed two famous works, "Bolero" and "Suite en Blanc", for a ballet night at the Hanoi Opera House on October 17 and 18.

 Japanese director and writer Kohei Oguri, known for Muddy River and The Sting of Death, will be the chief juror of feature films at the 2018 Hanoi International Film Festival.

Although full-year inflation will probably be contained at less than 4%, the average CPI in the first nine months of 2018 was already 3.57%, putting the efforts to curb inflation in the remainder of the year under even greater pressure.

 The Children Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City has successfully treated a rare case of congenital peribronchial myofibroblastic tumor (CPMT) for a child patient, which has only been detected in 20 cases around the globe.

 Hanoi’s rural development efforts improve local living standards, Vietnamese, Cambodian youths strengthen friendship, Final round of IoT start-up competition held in HCM City, World Food Day, FAO’s 40-year presence in Vietnam celebrated

 ENZ and local education authorities share experience at seminar with high and secondary students.

Forty Vietnamese IT students will head to Japan this month to work for two or three years and will be the fifth group of excellent students selected and trained by Japanese technology corporation Framgia in association with Vietnamese universities.

Figure up in first three quarters while deal numbers down slightly.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Vietnam has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.

 EVFTA to have significant impact on European businesses in Vietnam, latest Eurocham survey finds.

As a country with developed agriculture and 70% of its population living in rural areas, Vietnam has a lot of advantages in developing agri-tourism to meet the needs of foreign visitors for sightseeing, relaxation, and to experience farming.

 The third ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women (AMMW) and related meetings will take place in Hanoi on October 18-25, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Ha told a press conference on October 15.

 The Vietnamese government has given a positive economic forecast with this year's possible GDP growth of more than 6.7% along with gradually improved growth model.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The application of financial autonomy for universities in Vietnam is still on a trial basis and remains limited, 

National Assembly Deputy Bui Thi An speaks to Hải Quan online (Customs) newspaper about a confidence vote that will be held in late October for high-ranking officials in the National Assembly and people’s councils.