The coastal states can make their choices: to act unilaterally, to enhance maritime security, and drag the whole region into conflict; or to build principles, institutions and define open access issues. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - Though Vietnam has a long coastline, the country is still struggling with how to best exploit its advantages to create a more developed maritime economy. 

 Swedish pop group ABBA is set to reunite for a "new digital experience" in 2018, more than 30 years after their last public performance together, it was announced on Wednesday.

 Masks and costumes have been put on display at various shops in the Old Quarter as young people prepare for Halloween parties.

 The Government has asked policy makers to consider a number of projects with total investment capital of more than US$66 billion.

 Viet Nam has 718 State-owned enterprises (SOEs), most of them big or medium-sized and in 19 key sectors, that help the Government manage the economy.

 The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) is the largest State-owned bank by total assets, according to Moody's Investors Service. 

VietNamNet Bridge - All the three largest mobile network operators in Vietnam, namely Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone, witnessed big changes in key staff in the last three years.

 India's $11 billion tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a World Health Organization conference in New Delhi next month,

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will lose nearly 39 per cent of the total area of the MekongDelta – the biggest rice granary of the country if the sea level rises 100cm by the end of the century.

 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday said it aims to recover quickly from the disastrous withdrawal of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 that dragged third-quarter mobile earnings to their lowest level in nearly eight years.

VietNamNet Bridge - Besides the stunning scenery, fish sauce processing enterprises are also must-see places on Vietnam’s largest island Phu Quoc, in Kien Giang province.

Cashew nut shells, considered ‘rubbish’ by many people, turn out to be a material which may create a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many of the dozens of competitions at schools are not needed, say students. 

 The northern region is expected to experience the coldest snap so far this year.

 Vietnam was listed in the top three most popular expansion destinations in South Asia, following Singapore and Japan, in United Overseas Bank’s Asian Enterprises Report 2016.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has been in office for eight months and his actions have captured the attention of both the mainstream press and social networks. VietNamNet talked to Ms. Pham Chi Lan, an independent economic expert. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Not only trading companies but authorized car distributors as well have been found playing tricks to evade tax.

 Ten Vietnamese software companies have opened branches in Japan, Vietnam’s second largest outsourcing market since 2014. 

The Ministry of Culture and the People’s Committee of Yen Bai on October 26 jointly held a conference to build a national dossier on Xoe dance of Thai ethnic people to submit for UNESCO recognition as an intangible heritage of humanity.