French conductor Laurent Boer, director of Ensemble Polyphonique de Choisy-le-Roi, and choir members of the art troupe will hold a concert in HCM City Opera House on Saturday.

 Trinh Duc Tam won the Tour de Siak cycling tournament in Indonesia on October 22, while Vietnam topped the team ranking in Siak.

 Vietnam beat hosts Bahrain 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-19 Football Championship to reach the semifinals, securing a berth at the FIFA U-20 World Cup. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Tran Anh Tuan speaks to the newspaper Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam about the imperative need to reform the salary system for public employees.

VietNamNet Bridge - Some sources said iPhone 7 may not be available in Vietnam through official channels by the end of October as hoped.

VietNamNet Bridge - The General Department of Vietnam Sea and Islands said that Vietnam’s inshore water quality is still good, with most of the indexes meeting the Vietnamese standard. 

VietnamNet Bridge - Worried about the new form of exam questions, students rush to exam preparation centers to practice the skills of solving multiple-choice exam questions. Exam preparation centers have been increasing in number.

 Vietnam’s Consulate General in Nepal went into operation on October 23 after an opening ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city. 

 The committee that awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan said on Saturday it was up to the American singer-songwriter whether to attend the prize-giving ceremony later this year or not.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese-made products have become inferior to imports, while others cannot penetrate regional markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bao Loc has fragrant tea, immense hills andthe most majestic waterfalls in the Highlands.

The number of human trafficking cases uncovered in Viet Nam between 2011 and 2015 increased by 11.6 per cent compared to the previous five-year period, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Top lawmakers meeting Saturday urged stricter financial discipline and better public debt management consistent with international standards.

 The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on October 22 that 100% samples of fish sauce taken for testing were found to contain no inorganic arsenic or other heavy metals, such as lead, mercury and cadmium.

 Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh has just asked the Ministry of Public Security and authorities in Dak Nong Province to investigate a shooting which killed three forest rangers in the area on Sunday.

 The international Monsoon Music Festival 2016 themed “I participate- I act- I change- I share”   opened at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi from October 21-23.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union in collaboration with the Quang Trung Software Park yesterday held the seventh Young Creative Program under theme of ‘Building a smart city’ at HCMC Youth Culture House. 

The government is planning to remove tuition fees for ethnic minority preschoolers and secondary school students, the annual government conference held recently heard.

 The BRG Group and Sanrio Wave Hong Kong, which owns the world famous Hello Kitty character, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on October 21 to develop the Hello Kitty Park in Hanoi, the first internationally-branded park in Vietnam.

 Huu Bao, a photographer passionate about Hanoi, has lived through the city’s major changes. Hanoi through his lens is busy or tranquil, old or modern.