VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam beat Canada 4-0 in the seventh round of the ongoing 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia on Monday.

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Manh Cam revealed a little-known fact about late Party General Secretary Do Muoi: his fervent support was a major factor in Vietnam’s choice to join ASEAN.

 Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport have seized nearly a tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales hidden inside cargo packages.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has suggested lifting a controversial requirement for mobile phone users to register their photos in a stunning policy turnaround just six months after the regulation was put into force.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many casinos have been or are going to open in the central region, particularly on the coast.

 Karaoke clubs and discotheques will be allowed to stay open two hours later under a new proposal introduced by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which would extend closing time from midnight until 2 am.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Champions Hanoi beat bottom-ranked team Can Tho 3-0 in the penultimate round to officially lift the trophy of the V.League 1 on Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Players from HCM City have triumphed at the National Table Tennis Championship held in the Central Hilands province of Dak Lak.

Some online lenders that offer very high interest rates are in fact a form of ‘black’ credit and the State Bank of VN (SBV) is not responsible for management over such activities, SBV deputy governor Nguyen Thi Hong has said.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam is carefully studying international models of peer-to-peer lending (P2P) to develop a legal framework to effectively manage the country’s nascent fintech business.

The model of distributing insurance products via banks has contributed to increasing insurers’ revenue, but experts warned that the overheating growth of the business could cause insurers to have to pay compensations.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a project to build a set of criteria to evaluate the corporate development of the country and of each province and city separately.

 Viet Nam’s biggest dairy firm Vinamilk is eyeing foreign markets in the hopes of offseting the declining growth in the local market.

 Efficient restructuring of the agricultural sector has brought good results in production and business in the last few months, so the sector expects to gain stronger growth in production and business this year and beyond, said experts.

 Organisations and individuals using e-commerce websites will not be required to notify or register with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) from October 18.

 Over 4,900 scrap containers left unclaimed for 90 days are piling up at major seaports across the country, raising environmental concerns.

 Five young talented Vietnamese footballers had the chance to train in Barcelona with one of the leading professional football clubs in the world.

 Thai Son Nam easily crushed bottom-placed team Kim Toan Da Nang 6-1 in the last round of the National Futsal Championship to take the title yesterday.

 Korean pop star Sunmi and boy band Seventeen will perform in a South Korean and Vietnamese exchange concert in HCM City later this month.

 The HCM City Department of Health has instructed medicine manufacturers, importers, exporters and retail drugstores to strictly comply with regulations on the trade of drugs.