Thai referee Mongkolchai Pechsri will referee the friendly football match between Vietnam and North Korea at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City on Thursday, the Vietnam Football Federation has announced.

The International Football Fedderation (FIFA) has chosen Nguyen Minh Tri’s goal in the Sept. 11 match between Vietnam and Guatemala at the Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016 as one of the tournament’s top 10 goals. 

 Vietnamese chess player Tran Minh Thang won a bronze medal in the boys’ U16 category of the World Youth Chess Championship 2016, which wrapped up in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, on Monday.

 The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has won the 2016 Asian Townscape Award from the Asia-Pacific regional office of the UN Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) programme.

A concert featuring Vietnamese and Spanish sounds will take the stage at VN National Academy of Music on Friday, with performances by pianist Mario Mora, the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor David Gomez Ramirez.

 Dozens of people have died of rabies since the beginning of the year, mostly due to low vaccination rates in dogs and cats.

 The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was ranked among the top 25 best museums in the world by tourism website TripAdvisor. 

 Vietnamese athletes shined at the 10th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championship that closed in Lima, Peru, on October 3 with two gold medals.

VietNamNet Bridge - In Vietnam, medical schools train their students for six years but in developed countries, the training time is 12-13 years, half of which is for practice.

 Giant East Asian manufacturers were major clients of industrial parks across Vietnam in the first half of 2016, according to a report on industrial real estate released on October 4 by Savills Vietnam.

 Several US steel producers recently submitted an anti-dumping and countervailing petition to the US Department of Commerce (DOC) concerning cold-rolled steel imported from Vietnam, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 

 Vietnam welcomes multifaceted cooperation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), particularly in science as well as information and technology, said Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Thanh Hung. 

 Though complaints and denunciations have tended downward in 2016 compared to last year, the number of complicated cases has increased, and the Government needs to clarify the causes of this situation. 

 Vietnam attaches importance to defence cooperation with Thailand, and the Ministry of Defence will create favourable conditions for Thai military attachés to fulfil their duties in Vietnam, said a Vietnamese senior officer. 

 Vietnam regards South Africa as its leading partner in Africa and wishes to develop all-round cooperation with the country on par with the “partnership for cooperation and development”, President Tran Dai Quang said.

 The UK intends to deepen relationship with countries across the globe and Vietnam plays an important role in that strategy, said Eleanor Laing, Vice Speaker of the House of Commons of the UK. 

 President Tran Dai Quang hosted Iranian Ambassador to Vietnam Saleh Abidi in Hanoi on October 4, saying Vietnam places importance to the upcoming visit by President Hassan Rouhani.

 Cabinet members sought ways for achieving an economic growth target of 6.3-6.5 percent in 2016 during the second working day of the Government’s monthly meeting in Hanoi on October 4.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc congratulated Ousmane Dione on his appointment as new Country Director for the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam at a reception at the Government’s headquarters in Hanoi on October 4. 

Horseracing courses may be the newest fad luring foreign investors to the table, as yet another Korean enterprise has expressed interest in developing a course, this time in Bac Ninh.