VietNamNet Bridge - China's leaders know that its relations with the US are entering a period of transition and Beijing cannot anticipate what will happen.

Nam Thai Investment and Development Company is estimated to have spent some $164.42 million on becoming Vingroup’s third major shareholder, a representative from Vingroup’s Public Relations Department confirmed with VET on October 30. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese representative Nguyen Thi Nam Em was named among top eight finalists of the Miss Earth Pageant 2016, which closed in the Philippines on November 29.

 The 9th annual VN Information Security Day will be marked in HCM City on November 17 and in Hanoi in early December amid an increase in the incidence of cyber attacks aimed at large corporations world-wide, including in VN.

Vietnamese Nguyen Quoc Hy won a silver medal at the World Cadets U8, U10 and U12 Chess Championships, which ended on October 30 in Georgia. 

 Vietnam Airlines officially launched its Airbus A350-900 XWB on the Ho Chi Minh City-Osaka (Japan) route on October 30. 

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed Viet Nam’s first microcephaly case likely related to the Zika virus.  

 The Republic of Korea ranked first in the second Vietnam International Judo Championship 2016 by winning 10 golds, and three bronzes.

 The market capitalisation to GDP ratio in Vietnam as of October 19 was 40 percent, Deputy Finance Minister Vu Thi Mai reported at the most recent regular Cabinet press conference.

 Retirement age will not be increased for workers doing hard and poisonous work, said Bui Sy Loi, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge - The devastation of the ecosystem around some islands in the East Sea is becoming serious because of China's dredging and construction activities for military purposes.

 The Government has built various measures to keep public debt within permitted levels, Minister – Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung has said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Low enrollment for many years has forced many vocational schools to stop operation. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Though they have similar qualifications to IT workers in Malaysia and Thailand, Vietnamese IT staff receive pay which is only higher than in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Bhutan.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though Formosa Ha Tinh has fixed 85 percent of the problems, experts are still worried about its coke-quenching technology and undersea discharge system.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Significant parts of a dyke system in central Quang Tri Province was eroded by flooding early this month, threating the lives and crop of residents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese and international designers will attend Viet Nam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2016 at the National Convention Centre in Ha Noi on November 1-6.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) has called up 26 footballers to the national team to prepare for the international U22 friendly football tournament in China from November 8-13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF), themed “Cinema-Integration and Sustainable Development,” will take place from November 1 to 5.

Japanese Superior Buddhist monk Sagawa Fumon, head of the Todaiji temple, and 34 representatives presented a bronze statue of the 11-faced Avalositesvara Bodhisattva to Da Nang’s Quan The Am Pagoda yesterday.