Techfest 2017, a technology conference, will be held by the Ministry of Science and Technology on November 14 in Hanoi with the participation of various regional partners. 

 South Korean Park Hang Seo will be the Viet Nam national football team’s new head coach, the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) announced yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth industrial revolution is expected to offer opportunities to radically change the quality of healthcare services in HCM City.

A special exhibition of works by four young graphic designers, newly graduates of the London College for Design and Fashion (LCDF), opens in Hanoi today.

 Four hundred disadvantaged children from HCM City’s districts Binh Thanh, Binh Tan, Go Vap and 8 will get gifts and enjoy an entertainment programme during the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.

 The annual Nghinh Ong Festival, in which fishermen show respect for the whale, as a symbol for the spirit of the sea, and gratitude for bumper catch, is to take place in HCM City’s Can Gio District on October 3-5.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Quang Tri Province is facing serious forest usurpation and deforestation as people seek to expand the land area available for farming.

 Customs department officials in the port city of Hai Phong said they were examining eight containers of giang huong, a rare timber, imported from Africa early this month.

 Despite a raft of applications for nine lecturer vacancies announced in July, HCM City University of Transport has been unable to fill any of the positions.

 The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs held its seventh plenary session yesterday in Hanoi to discuss health insurance, tobacco control funds and national targets for gender equality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some 30 per cent of patients at the National Children’s Hospital (NCH) suffer from drug-resistant bacteria stemming from improper use of antibiotics.

 Three more top officials of the PetroVietnam Construction Co JSC (PVC) will be investigated for “property embezzlement” under Article 278 of the Penal Code, police said on Friday.

 Vietnam has suggested the establishment of a network of APEC women entrepreneurs during a dialogue that was part of the 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum in Hue city, Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

 Vietnam’s “Gold” Athletes at AIMAG 2017

 The 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum (WEF) issued on September 29 a statement which looks to enhance women’s economic inclusion and empowerment in a changing world.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission decided to give a strong warning to Huynh Duc Tho, Vice Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee at its 18th session in Hanoi on September 29.  

 Sound collaboration between the Vietnamese and Lao ministries of home affairs has contributed to fostering the two countries’ friendship, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Dao Quang Vinh, director general of the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs, tells the Labour Newspaper that voluntary unemployment is not something Vietnam has to worry about.

 The Toyota Mekong Club Championship (TMCC) is scheduled to be held from December 2017 to January 2018.

Reproductive health experts and teachers should focus on education in how to safely avoid pregnancy and prevent sexually transmitted diseases, according to Viet Nam Gynaecology and Obstetrics Association.