Mongolian delegation pays working visit to Hoa Binh province,Thai Buddhist delegation on Vietnam visit to boost ties,PM: Ninh Thuan should work to become renewable energy hub,PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosts head of Lao Government Office

 Sustainable forestry management project approved,UK to help Vietnam with smart city building,Photo exhibition reflects on Hanoi’s Liberation Day celebrations,Work on Dau Giay-Lien Khuong expressway to start next year

Vietnam gained 84 points for the second quarter of 2018 in the Business Climate Index (BCI), up 6 points from the previous quarter, according to new data from the BCI survey released by EuroCham on October 4.

 Vietnam’s flag was hoisted at the athlete village in Jakarta capital of Indonesia at a ceremony on October 5, marking the official presence of the Vietnamese sports delegation to the 2018 Asian Para Games.

 The Military Command and local authorities in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh have successfully defused a big bomb in Tan Bien district.

The telephone on the table rings. Interpreter Vu Hoang Lan receives the call. A pregnant woman standing in a shop is on the phone’s screen. She does not say anything, just shows signals with her hands. 

 About 8 tonnes of ivory and pangolin scales were discovered in a container at Tien Sa port in the central city of Da Nang on October 4, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City handed down jail sentences of between 8-15 years to five men for “attempting to overthrow the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the Penal Code at a first-instance trial held on October 5. 

 Vietnam aims for 9 gold medals at 3rd ASIAN Para Games

 The State funeral began at 7am on October 6 at the National Funeral Hall, No.5 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi, for former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Do Muoi, who passed away on October 1. 

 Vietnamese embassies abroad held tribute-paying ceremonies and opened condolence books for former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Do Muoi.

"Invisible tariff" in Vietnam reaches 164%: expert, Tien Giang works towards 2.65 billion USD in export this year, Vietnam sends 86,000 workers abroad in eight months, Growth rate of retail sales and services up 11.3%     

Vietnam has great natural advantages and high capability to develop the food processing industry, experts say.

 The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to campaigners against rape in warfare Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese athletes arrived home on Tuesday with a basket of four gold medals from the third World Taijiquan Championships in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Trekking a muddy road, treading carefully past precipitous cliffs and sleeping in the middle of the tranquil jungle are among the best memories from our trip to Tram Tau District in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

A programme to sort waste at source has been started at HCM City’s export processing zones (EPZ) and industrial parks (IP) by the HCM City EPZ Authority (HEPZA) and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts believe that the upgrading of the Vietnam’s stock market from frontier to secondary emerging will occur in 2019, or at the latest in 2020.

Nguyen Van Ly, deputy director general of the Viet Nam Bank for Social Policy, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay about the challenges the bank has faced over the last five months implementing the Government Decree 100/2015

 Domestic banks have been enlarging their network of branches and transaction offices rapidly in recent years in an effort to increase market share.