Cast iron slag is still considered solid waste to be treated and buried in Vietnam.

The latest report of Vietnam National Administration for Tourism (VNAT) shows that Japan is among the top 3 countries with the highest number of travelers to Vietnam. 

 Vietnam’s commitments to increase foreign equity caps in the telecommunications sectors under the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement will ease European investors to enter the country’s industry.

 The deal is in line with Vingroup`s target of having 200 VinMart supermarkets and 4,000 VinMart+ convenience stores by 2020.

 Thanh Hoa provides 1,500 tonnes of rice for flood-hit students, Đồng Nai sets up cameras to monitor illegal sand exploitation, 57 villages in Đắk Lắk Province to be connected to national power grid

 It's the final call, say scientists, the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures.

 A photo exhibition named "Hanoi: Moments of October 1954" reviving historical memories of Hanoi’s celebrations of Liberation Day on October 10, 1954 are on display at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in downtown Hanoi. 

 Artist Vu Dinh Luong will hold an exhibition on the beauty and peaceful life of Vietnamese villages and old little streets entitled “From Villages to Streets” at the Fine Arts Exhibition House in Hanoi from October 10 to 20.

 The British Council in Vietnam and the Ministry of Education of Training of Vietnam last week signed a cooperation agreement on promoting social enterprise teaching and social reform in universities across the country.

 Concert of Childhood Memory will be back at the Conservatory of HCMC on the nights of October 14 and 15 with the theme “Beyond Magic,” featuring a series of soundtracks from Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and How to Train Your Dragon.

 Chinese tech giant Tencent and London medical firm Medopad have teamed up to use artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease.

 The Ho Chi Minh City General Science Library has just launched S.Hub Kids – a first-ever smart library for kids aged between 5 to 18.

 Model Minh Tu has been chosen to compete at the Miss Supranational 2018 pageant that scheduled to take place on November 15 - December 8 in Poland.

 The General Department of Taxation has been reviewing press information about foreign firms continuously reporting loss to have inspection plan in the upcoming time.

HCMC now has 11,680 civil servants and officials working for administrative agencies and 120,000 people working for public service units. Many of them have quitted because of heavy workload and low payment.

 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has approved a plan of organising Vietnam International Tourism Fair, aiming to make it become an important annual international event.

 In Vietnam, from the end of 2017, the Ministry of Health has officially circulated drug treatments for cancer by immunotherapy.

 The consecutive launching of a slew of new products helps foreign-invested life insurers, new and old alike, to strengthen their dominance in the Vietnamese insurance market.

 Policies are a leverage to stimulate foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into large transport infrastructure projects, such as North-South Expressway or Long Thanh International Airport.

Residents of HCMC may face flood levels exceeding alert level 3 this week, according to the southern weather center.