The maintenance of friendship and sound cooperation between Vietnamese and Chinese parliaments will help develop the two countries’ comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in a sustainable manner.

 A special ao dai (traditional dress) collection by designer Vu Viet Ha, inspired by roses to honour Vietnamese women’s beauty, was presented at the opening ceremony of a rose festival in Hanoi on October 14.

 The National Assembly of Vietnam always supports and participates in parliamentary cooperation activities hosted by Russia, including the Eurasian Women’s Forum in 2015 and the Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries’ Parliaments in 2016.

 Transport sector is forecast to have the sharpest rise in energy need

 The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and Lao Dong (Labour) Daily launched a writing contest themed “Vietnam: Endless beauty” in Hanoi on October 13. 

 The first Vietnam Coffee Day will take place in Da Lat city of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on December 9-11, announced local authorities and the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association.

 The central city of Da Nang has basically completed logistics preparations for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week and related meetings slated for November, according to the municipal Department of External Affairs. 

 The functions and operations of the Vietnam Debt and Asset Trading Corporation (DATC) should be restructured to deal with the “next phase” of handling non-performing loans (NPLs), the Finance Ministry (MoF) said.

 China inaugurated its Consulate General in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang on October 13. 

 A little weekend market, located in a café in alley 311 on No Trang Long street, Binh Thanh district, has been well-known among antique hunters in Ho Chi Minh City since 2013.

 The finance sector will continue to tweak the financial inspection system to make the nation’s financial system more efficient.

 Latest updates from the Ministry of Construction showed that real estate inventories were on a declining trend but remained relatively huge.

 Italian painter Laura Federici and Vietnamese painter Nguyen Dam Thuy have worked together to portray the home and the environment.

 The New York City Police Department said on Thursday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault by movie producer Harvey Weinstein in 2004.

 Experts are warning against an outbreak of dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease as wet weather continues.

 Research findings by the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) show that Vietnam’s economic growth in the third quarter was the highest in seven years.

 The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is considered a golden chance for developing countries like Vietnam to improve quality of services, goods and competitive advantages.

 Agar jelly is a familiar dessert to many people due to its sweetness. In recent years, the dessert hasfound hundreds of forms, from jelly flan, Mid-Autumn Festival jelly cake to 3D jelly. Of which, the most outstanding form is gracilaria agar jelly.

 The sound tourism environment, high-quality services and excellent promotion campaigns have helped the central coastal city of Da Nang lure an increasing number of tourists.

 Canadian train-and-plane maker Bombardier Inc  is exploring options for its aerospace businesses, including a sale of some operations,