To ensure traffic order and safety, HCM City’s Department of Transport has decided to ban private buses with more than 25 seats on some streets in District 10 including Le Hong Phong, Vinh Vien and Tran Nhan Ton from 6am to 10pm, starting October 29.

 Tran Ngoc Thanh, who was appointed chairman of Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) in April 2015, has submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

Three Vietnamese fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates for more than four years returned home to a tumultuous reception in Hanoi yesterday.

 An ASEAN regional business council (RBC) gathering 55 leaders of big enterprises is set to make debut at the World Economic Forum on the Mekong Region (WEF-Mekong) in Hanoi. 

 Policy makers from ASEAN and its three partners of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea discussed how to ensure sustainable production and consumption through sustainable value chains at a programme that opened in Hanoi on October 25.

 Vietnam and Thailand will work closely with each other and with international organisations to use and manage Mekong river water resources efficiently to ensure interests of the river basin nations.

 Countries in the Mekong region should enhance their economic and infrastructure connectivity and particularly develop complete sub-regional economic corridors, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

  Pratibha Mehta, the United Nations’ Resident Coordinator and Development Programme Resident Representative in Vietnam, was presented a friendship order from the Vietnamese State in Hanoi on October 25.

 Hoang Binh Quan, Head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations on October 25 received Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, who visited Vietnam for the first time as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

 14th National Assembly deputies discussed the bill on associations at their plenary session of the ongoing second meeting in Hanoi on October 25. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese contestant Nguyen Thi Loan appeared on the stage of the semi-final night of Miss Grand International 2016 pageant in swimsuit and evening gown last night.

 The first Zika virus infection in the southern province of Long An was announced by the provincial Health Department at a press conference on October 24, raising the total number of infections in the country to 11.

Around 60 plays by artists from over 20 countries have registered to take part in the 3rd International Experimental Theatre Festival, which will be held from November 12-19 in Hanoi. 

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) last week announced the preliminary results of the administrative review of the anti-dumping duty imposed on some of Vietnam’s oil country tubular goods (OCTG).

 The ASEAN Regional Business Council (RBC) has been launched in Hanoi with the aim of promoting public-private cooperation on the most pressing issues facing Southeast Asia.

  The high-level dialogue between the National Steering Committee on Climate Change and development partners took place in Hanoi on October 25, aiming to seek measures to help Vietnam in climate change mitigation. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had talks with his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith in Hanoi on October 25, thanking the latter’s sympathy for the flood-caused damage in the central region of Vietnam. 

 Myanmar President Htin Kyaw and his wife arrived in Hanoi on October 25 for a State-level visit to Vietnam from October 26-28 at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Coastal communities in the south are in danger of losing their livelihoods to increasing land erosion resulting from the loss of a natural buffer - mangrove forests.

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