Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has underlined the urgent need to restructure public sector organizations in a way that promotes the private sector’s involvement in those public services.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Van Tung tells Vietnam News Agency about the application of science and technology to mitigate damages of climate change.

Director of the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) Dinh Huu Phi tells Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper about using technology to make it easier to establish intellectual property rights 

Tran Vinh Tuyen, vice chairman of HCM City People’s Committee, tells the Thanh Nien (Young People) that a smart city will vastly modernise and improve living standards.

Associate Professor and Doctor Nguyen Quoc Dung, member of the Party’s Central Theoretical Council, tells the VOV e-newspaper that streamlining the public sector is a revolution that requires both determination and sacrifice.

VietNamNet Bridge – “Undone”, a solo exhibition by Hanoi-based visual artist Nguyen Tran Nam, is underway at Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi until October 31.

 Since the beginning of the year, myriad financial investors from South Korea have been actively searching for opportunities to enter the Vietnamese banking sector, especially the consumer finance segment. 

In the past three years, Rich, a 66-year-old American man, spends nearly one hour every day riding to his workplace, Binh An Center for Development in District 8, HCM City, where he works as an English teacher for disadvantaged kids.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A trip to Lang Co Beach in central Viet Nam can stir your soul and rekindle your romantic spirit, 

 Spark Therapeutics Inc’s experimental gene therapy for a rare form of blindness improves vision and should be approved, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration concluded on Thursday, 

VietNamNet Bridge - More Vietnamese businesses have decided to increase their investments in online sales as e-commerce continues to boom. 

Under the baton of the talented conductor Nguyen Khac Thanh, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will return to the stage of L’Espace, Hanoi with the works of Franz Schubert on October 18-19. 

A year after a toxic spill from the plant caused the country’s worst environmental disaster so far, Formosa steel and port complex project is pressing on, expecting to produce 1.5 million tonnes of steel between now and the end of the year.

The Hanoi Party Committee convened its tenth meeting on October 13 to review the city’s socio-economic performance during January-September and put forth measures to fulfill targets set for the remaining months of this year and the next years. 

 Vietnamese and Indonesian defence ministries signed a Declaration on Joint Vision on Defence Cooperation for 2017-2022 following talks between the two Defence Ministers in Jakarta on October 13. 

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Vietnam ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM), attended the ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) in Manila, the Philippines on October 11-13. 

 The Vietnam-Russia Inter-Governmental Committee on Military Technical Cooperation convened its 19th meeting in Hanoi on Thursday.

 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Thach Kim Tuan defeated Tran Le Quoc Toan to win three gold medals at the men’s 56kg category of the National Weightlifting Championship.

 Vietnam has been selected as the best golf destination in the Asia-Pacific region in the 2017 Asia Golf Awards on-line poll conducted by the Asia Golf Magazine.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has licenced Phuong Nam Design & Traning Joint Stock Company to host the 2018 Miss Sea Vietnam Global.