The National Assembly (NA) on October 20 heard Government reports on the economic restructuring plan and the management of public debt during the 2016-20 period.

 Three Chinese navy ships carrying 750 sailors will make their first port call at Vietnam’s newly-inaugurated Cam Ranh International Port in central Khanh Hoa province from October 22-26.

VietNamNet Bridge - The announcement by Vingroup that Vinschool, an education network run by Vingroup, will shift to a non-profit status has raised questions about the private education market in Vietnam.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged US$24 million to help the Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue provinces protect forests, enhance biodiversity conservation and strengthen communities’ resilience.

VietNamNet Bridge - Billions of dong have been spent on automatic air monitoring stations in Hanoi, but most of the stations have stopped operation. Hanoi will have to set up new stations in the time to come.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 27 projects of seven State corporations are listed in a Ministry of Industry and Trade’s directive as being liable to cause environmental pollution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s national football team defeated Seoul FC 3-0 in a friendly match yesterday (Oct 20) in Paju, South Korea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese celebrities have launched fund raising campaigns to help flood victims in the center of the country. Some have traveled to the affected areas to deliver necessities to people in need.

Vietnamese Duo Ly Hoang Nam and Nguyen Hoang Thien came from behind to beat Malaysian rivals Ahmed Deedat Abdul Razak and Mohd Assri Merzuki in the quarter-final round of the Viet Nam Men’s Futures F7 tennis tournament

While Vietnamese state management agencies still argue about whether to allow Vietnamese to go to domestic casinos, Vietnamese transfer hundreds of millions of dollars abroad every year and spend money at casinos.

 Crowds of screaming fans braced the cold and packed into London's Leicester Square on Thursday to catch a glimpse of Tom Cruise as he premiered his film "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back",

 VietNamNet Bridge – Monsoon Music Festival (MMF), Viet Nam’s biggest music event, will storm the city tonight (Oct 21) with a repertoire featuring a lineup of Vietnamese and international artists.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a bid to ease payroll pressure on the national budget and improve staff performance, the Prime Minister has decided to reduce the number of those on the State payroll by 1.4 per cent at all levels next year.

VietNamNet Bridge – Trekking through Ma Pi Leng Pass and crossing Nho Que river on a raft are among the top things that backpackers should do during their adventure trip in Ha Giang.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ancient city of Hoi An and its twin town Wernigerode in Germany will start construction of a solar power system project for the old quarter of the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has called for investment from Spanish businesses in urban waste treatment, transport and flood control during a recent visit by a Spanish delegation to the city to explore business opportunities.

 Asian stocks were mostly lower on Friday as the dollar climbed to seven-month highs against a basket of currencies and dragged down crude oil prices, cooling investor risk appetite.

 Typhoon Haima, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in three years, killed at least 12 people and inundated vast tracts of rice and corn fields, officials in Manila said on Friday, before it took aim at Hong Kong.

In villages scattered through the green rice fields of northeast Thailand, a stronghold of support for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his opposition "red shirt" movement,

Dutch photographer Loes Heerink once lived in Hanoi and started taking photographs of street vendors from above as they travelled through Hanoi streets. Now, she wants to create a book of photographs.