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.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries to speed up the reviewing and elimination of unnecessary business prerequisites in an effort to create favourable conditions for enterprises.

 Viet Nam placed first at the fourth Asian Pencak Silat Championship, which closed on Thursday at Sher-e-Kashmir Indoor Stadium, in Srinagar City, India.

 A second British woman has died from "Brazilian butt lift" surgery, the BBC has learned, as fresh warnings come over the risks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of senior architects have objected to plans to build sewer system into Kim Nguu River, one of the most polluted in the city.

 Ly Hoang Nam booked a ticket to compete in the quarter-finals of the Sweden F5 Futures tennis tournament on Wednesday.

Concert featuring chamber music at Opera House on Oct 9, Concert to feature Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Alpha Books publishes Vietnamese edition of Internet of Things bestseller

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of tonnes of garlic in Khanh Hoa Province is in danger of rotting, as a lack of demand has forced farmers to put their crops in storage.