VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s U19 team is ready to compete in the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U19 Championship’s finals in Indonesia, according to head coach Hoang Anh Tuan.

VietNamNet Bridge - The pork market has heated up again, with more imports, especially from the US.

 The European Commission has submitted a free trade agreement with Viet Nam for approval, the first comprehensive open market deal between the EU and a developing Asian country.

 Viet Nam’s trade as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) reached over 200 per cent in 2017, the highest level for any country with over 50 million people in the World Bank’s data set, which goes back to 1960.

 The State Audit of Viet Nam (SAV) will audit 25 State-owned enterprises and financial organisations in 2019. They include the State Bank of Viet Nam, 21 economic groups and corporations and three banks and credit institutions.

Vietnam is working to develop its own earth observation satellite, which will help the country manage natural resources and mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, a conference heard yesterday.

Valuable ancient trees in northern mountainous Ha Giang Province, some of which are hundreds of years old, are at risk of disappearing because of continued illegal logging that responsible agencies have been unable to curb.

 The Viet Nam CEO Forum Golf Tournament, TTC Cup, will start on Tuesday at Tan Son Nhat Golf Course in HCM City.

 Artists from the Faculty of Arts Teaching at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts have organised an exhibition that is being held at Exhibition House on 29 Hang Bai Street.

 Individuals and organisations across the country have donated a total of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$129 million) to the Fund for the Poor and the Social Security Programme for the year.

 Viet Nam had set up its fully integrated forestry information database, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a conference in Hanoi on Wednesday.

 Rescue ship SAR 413, belonging to Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3, took Joe Vanier, an ill 53-year-old Canadian man, to the mainland in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau at 7:45am on Thursday.

 The central coastal city of Da Nang will increase the level of scrutiny applied to budget tours in a bid to further develop sustainable tourism services.

 Vietnam’s Multidimensional Poverty Index ranks 31st out of the 105 countries surveyed in Human Development Indices (HDI): Statistical Update 2018 of the United Nations Development Programme. 

 The Mekong Delta province of Long An will host the third Vietnam Rice Festival from December 18-24. 

 The Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) has forecast Vietnam’s economy growth for 2018 may be at 6.88 thanks to positive socio-economic results in the first nine months of this year.

 The Hanoi high-level People’s Court on October 18 upheld the imprisonment sentence for a defendant found guilty of “trying to overthrow the people’s administration” at a first-instance trial two months ago. 

 Vietnamese player Nguyen Van Phuong has reached the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at the World Super Junior Tennis Championships in Japan with his partner Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune from Denmark.

 Vietnam’s participation in UN peacekeeping activities in war-torn South Sudan has gained praise from international media.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and the Finnish Embassy in Vietnam launched the Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup, and Entrepreneurship Week 2018.