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VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has high potential in the world’s smarthome market, worth $20 billion globally.

 ABB Robotics Company will reveal YuMi, dubbed as the world’s first collaborative dual armed robot designed for a world in which humans and robots work together more closely, at Metalex Vietnam 2015 slated to kick off in HCMC on October 8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Eighteen people including a former general director of Agribank, one of the largest banks in Viet Nam, were prosecuted for causing the bank a loss of more than VND2.75 trillion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Toshyia Miura rightly said that he planned to lock Iraq's players in their Group F match of the World Cup qualification round, Asia zone, yesterday (Oct 8), in Ha Noi.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) will conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) in December.

Vietnam was named among the top 20 countries with the highest number of Internet users, according to recent statistics from the Internet World Stats.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Ba Ria – Vung Tau provincial authorities may shut down 18 factories charged with causing the death of large amounts of fish.

  Da Nang officials want to pay for ideas that will improve the city and its tourism.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese startups have become more and more attractive to angel investors, seed-funds and series A-funds, both domestic and foreign.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many schools still cannot find enough students to start the new academic year, a trend that has occurred for several years. 

 Phu Quoc island district in the southern province of Kien Giang has taken a number of measures to develop the island into a hi-end eco-tourism destination of the region and the world, a local official said. 

 Travellers to Hanoi should not miss opportunities to visit museums during their trip to explore the thousand-year-old capital city. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has been seen as an attractive market to Thai cosmetics businesses as local people are showing a preference for made-in-Thailand products.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party authorities in Yen Bai Province are hoping to turn the picturesque Nam Khat Village into a second Sa Pa with long-term investments and rigorous development.

 Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Le Hai Binh answered reporters’ queries about Vietnam’s citizen protection abroad during a regular press briefing in Hanoi on October 8. 

 Vietnam demands Thailand promptly investigate and strictly punish individuals involved in Thai marine police’s recent fatal shooting against Vietnamese fishing boats, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh said. 

 Education has become a prominent cooperation field between Vietnam and the German Federal State of Hessen, President Truong Tan Sang said while receiving Karin Muler, head of the Hessen State Ministry for Science and Arts office in Hanoi.

VietNamNet would like to present an article by Dr. Tran Cong Truc, former Head of the Government Boundary Committee on US - Vietnam - China relations and the East Sea, after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the US.

 Base salaries at foreign companies and Vietnamese companies show a marked difference, a survey conducted by human resources firm Mercer and its partner Talentnet Corporation has found.