VietNamNet Bridge – The Toyota Mekong Club Championship football tournament will be held from November 5 to January 8 next year in each of the five Mekong countries, with the augural scheduled in Laos on November 5.

Coal thermal power will have to continue to be used in Vietnam, though it badly affects the environment. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Breeding shrimp in glass houses not only improves productivity, but also helps minimize pollution. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Book prices in Vietnam are much lower than in many other countries, but this has not led to people spending more time reading books.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Actress Lydia Park of South Korea will visit Da Nang to participate in a film programme aimed at young people next month.

 Vietnam Web Summit 2016, the biggest annual event on web development in Vietnam, is going to provide an overview of web development in Vietnam as well as introduce to the web development community new technologies.

 The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) has proposed the government impose temporary safeguard duties on imported pre-painted galvanized steel to protect local producers and workers.

 MobiFone announced revenue for the first six months of 2016 of VND16.2 trillion ($736.3 million), up 16.6 per cent year-on-year, while after-tax profit was VND2.51 trillion ($112.1 million), down 21 per cent.

 Trinh Van Quyet, chairman of FLC Group's management board, has become the second dollar billionaire in Viet Nam's stock market, with total assets of over VND22.6 trillion (US$1.01 billion).

 Vietnam lost 0-3 to Japan in the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-19 Football Championship on October 27 in Bahrain.

 Foreign arrivals to Vietnam reached 812,017 in October, bringing the total foreign travelers in the first ten months to 8,077,397 up 25.4% against last year’s corresponding period, reports the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

 Well-known Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker will arrive in Ho Chi Minh City to perform at the Ravolution Music Festival, which is scheduled to take place on December 8, according to a local newspaper, the An ninh thu do.

 Tokyo Fashion Week has a reputation for being one of the top places established names in fashion migrate too. It also is known as a great place to find out what young students are on the horizon for the fashion world.

 A large number of level crossings illegally opened by local people along the north-south railway has been identified as one of the main causes for the high number of railway accidents in Vietnam, according to railway management companies.

 The Ministerial Conference on Peacekeeping in the Francophone Area in France took place in Paris, France from 26-27, focusing on ways to improve peacekeeping campaigns in French-speaking countries.

 Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ho Chi Minh City during the first seven months of 2016 has collapsed, decreasing by more than 65% when compared to last year’s same corresponding period, reports the Municipal Statistics Office.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese startups have attracted big infusions of cash and have great potential, but only a few of them have reaped fruit. 

 Google parent Alphabet Inc bested analysts' estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as the search company showed it has honed its core business for the mobile era and is closing in on the next wave of computing.

VietNamNet Bridge - To a number of Saigonese, these places are all too familiar but to tourists in HCM City, it will be unforgettable to experience these spots in the busiest city in Vietnam.

The Prime Minister has allowed Taiwanese firm Hung Nghiep Formosa Co., Ltd. (Fomosa), to import own coal for electricity production at its coal-fired thermal power plant located in Dong Nai’s Nhon Trach 3 industrial park