Young Vietnamese tennis talent Nguyen Van Phuong shone in the Lee Duk Hee Cup, an international junior tennis tournament held in South Korea on Wednesday.

 Vietnamese tennis playerLy Hoang Nam reached the men’s singles quarterfinals at the Viet Nam F5 Futures – Hai Dang Cup 2018 in the southern province of Tay Ninh on Thursday.

 More than 8,200 foreign and Vietnamese runners are expected to participate in the 2018 Techcombank HCM City International Marathon to be held in HCM City on December 2.

 More than four million Chinese tourists have visited Viet Nam so far this year, breaking the 2017 number.

 The Consular Club in HCM City will hold its 25th annual International Charity Bazaar on November 3 at Adora Center in Tan Binh District.

 A charity concert where Vietnamese orphans perform with artists from the UK will be held at the Hanoi Opera House today.

 An exhibition of lacquer paintings by Nguyen Quoc Huy recently opened in Hanoi, with works natural beauty and the artist’s imagination about a fairy land.

 What could be more pleasing to travellers in the northern province of Yen Bái after conquering Ta Chi Nhu Mountain? Soaking in hot mineral springs with a picturesque landscape laid out in front of them.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a plan to slash the number of State-funded communication corporations and their total budget by 10 per cent by 2021.

 Temperatures at the top of Fansipan in the northern province of Lao Cai have dropped to below zero degrees centigrade, leaving it covered in frost. 

 Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report.

 The investor of the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway announced on Wednesday that it has reprimanded several officers for mismanaging up to VNĐ410 billion (US$18.2 million) by the State audit.

 Iranian film The Dark Room won the best feature length film award at the 5th Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF).

 Hundreds of pupils in the mountainous areas of Quang Nam Province may stop going to schools as government is going to stop providing food to boarding schools.

 Some local lawyers have claimed that a Vinasun victory in its court case against app-based car booking service Grab would badly affect the Vietnamese business and investment environment.

 Many buildings in Ho Chi Minh City are being tainted by graffiti while the local authorities struggle to deal with the situation.

 Authorities in Danang City have proposed to build a new terminal to ease the burden for the Danang International Airport which is forecasted to face overcrowding.

 The 2019 ASEAN Tourism Forum, themed “ASEAN – The Power of One”, will take place in Ha Long city in the northern province of Quang Ninh from January 14-18, 2019,  announced the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism on November 1. 

 Although completing the majority of its economic targets for 2018, Ho Chi Minh City is still burdened with heavy pressure from its budget collection, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee at a meeting on November 1.

 An outbreak of A/H5N6 influenza, also known as bird flu, which is transmittable to humans, has been detected in the central province of Phu Yen, said a local official.