The Government has urged ministries, agencies and localities to take drastic actions to complete targets and tasks for 2017. 

 A Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument was inaugurated on October 16 in Khemara Phoumin city, Koh Kong province, about 300 km to the west of Phnom Penh. 

 Some 72 people have been killed as of 21:00 on October 15 in widespread floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in the central region and northern mountainous provinces.

 The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has mobilised over 4,000 people, including army soldiers, police, militias and local residents, in search for missing people after a severe flash flood swept through the province on October 11.

Chau Thi Thu Nga, former Chairwoman and General Director of Housing Group, was sentenced to life imprisonment for swindling to appropriate assets at a two-week trial that concluded on October 16.

 The central province of Ha Tinh approved in principle 76 projects over the past nine months, including three foreign-invested projects, with combined investment capital of over 330 million USD, local authorities said.

 The closure segment of a temporary floating bridge over the Ka Long border river was installed on October 16, connecting northern Quang Ninh’s Mong Cai city and Dongxing city of China.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with a delegation of US parliamentarians led by Ted Yoho, Chairman of the Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee at the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in Hanoi on October 16.

 Ho Chi Minh City and the Canadian city of Toronto signed an agreement on enhancing their administrations’ friendship and cooperation on October 16.

 Five agricultural wholesale markets will be built in Hanoi despite the unresolved food hygiene and operational problems dogging city markets.

Total damage caused by prolonged downpours and floods in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has exceeded $35.2 million, according to the province’s steering board for disaster prevention, search and rescue.

 Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived in Astana on October 16 afternoon, beginning her three-day official visit to Kazakhstan.

 Beauty of Dien Bien’s high mountain villages

VietNamNet Bridge - In developed countries, logistics make up 15-20 percent of GDP. But in Vietnam, the industry can satisfy only 25 percent of market demand.

VietNamNet Bridge - Educators believe that the restriction on the number of schools for the gifted in each province is no longer reasonable in new circumstances. Vietnam needs to have more schools to promote more talented students, he said.

VietNamNet Bridge - The bioproducts that help keep farm produce fresh for 15-20 days are made of waste seafood products such as crab and shrimp. 

 Nearly 400 archaeological treasures from Vietnam are being displayed at the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim city, southwest Germany.

 For 15 years, veteran Pham Duc Hanh of Dong Trieu town, Quang Ninh province, directed traffic on National Highway 18 to ensure smoother circulation.

Dr. Chung A, member of a consulting group for Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control discusses with the Suc Khoe & Doi Song newspaper on prostitution.

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