Under the baton of the talented conductor Nguyen Khac Thanh, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will return to the stage of L’Espace, Hanoi with the works of Franz Schubert on October 18-19. 

A year after a toxic spill from the plant caused the country’s worst environmental disaster so far, Formosa steel and port complex project is pressing on, expecting to produce 1.5 million tonnes of steel between now and the end of the year.

The Hanoi Party Committee convened its tenth meeting on October 13 to review the city’s socio-economic performance during January-September and put forth measures to fulfill targets set for the remaining months of this year and the next years. 

 Vietnamese and Indonesian defence ministries signed a Declaration on Joint Vision on Defence Cooperation for 2017-2022 following talks between the two Defence Ministers in Jakarta on October 13. 

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of the Vietnam ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM), attended the ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) in Manila, the Philippines on October 11-13. 

 The Vietnam-Russia Inter-Governmental Committee on Military Technical Cooperation convened its 19th meeting in Hanoi on Thursday.

 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Thach Kim Tuan defeated Tran Le Quoc Toan to win three gold medals at the men’s 56kg category of the National Weightlifting Championship.

 Vietnam has been selected as the best golf destination in the Asia-Pacific region in the 2017 Asia Golf Awards on-line poll conducted by the Asia Golf Magazine.

 The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has licenced Phuong Nam Design & Traning Joint Stock Company to host the 2018 Miss Sea Vietnam Global.

 Widespread floods triggered by a tropical depression over the past few days have killed 54 people as of 22:00 pm on October 12, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - The multi-talented artist Stanford Reid from Brooklyn, New Yorkwill have a show at Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang street, Hanoi on October 15 (8-10pm).

 Paris authorities plan to banish all petrol- and diesel-fueled cars from the world’s most visited city by 2030, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – This October the Program of Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will organize many activities and events for expats and tourists to help them discover Hanoi:

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Goethe Institut Hanoi will premier two sound installations by the German artist and composer Tim Otto Roth at the exhibition “Circulating Sounds – Deep Doppler Meets Mathematical Socialism” on October 12 – November 3

VietNamNet Bridge - Bank shares, called ‘king shares’, have seen prices escalate to record highs after a period of decline. 

Senior managers in consumer goods sector receive salary of $13,203, Vietnam to facilitate gas exploitation from Blue Whale, HCMC approves two $88mil waterway infrastructure projects

 Vietnam Railway’s all ticketing systems ready for Tet, Over 1 trillion VND raised for the poor, University programmes encourage startup culture, HCM City, Hungary seek to realise cooperative agreements

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed a telegraph, on October 12, calling for strengthened efforts in overcoming the consequences caused by widespread floods in the northern and central provinces over recent days.

 Visitors will have an opportunity to experience the Hop-on Hop-off bus free of charge after service registration at Hanoitourist.

 The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced that a tropical depression in the East Sea has strengthened into a tropical storm and is moving towards the East Sea.