VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been ranked 89th among 193 surveyed countries in the UN e-government development index (EGDI).

 Authorities and business associations met in HCMC last week to find ways for local exporters and importers to get back their containerized goods currently stranded on board ships of Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd that had filed for bankruptcy protection.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many investors are rushing to develop software park projects in Hanoi. Experts, warning about ‘software park inflation’, say that investors have ‘other purposes’ when eyeing such projects.

 The HCMC government has identified environmental protection and improvement of the quality of life as two of the core criteria for growth quality in the 2016-2020 period, said chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong.

VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, French and German will be taught at general schools in Hanoi and HCMC before being applied on a large scale throughout the country.

 It is very easy to see vehicles that carry bulky loads of goods, causing traffic chaos and potential dangers for people, particularly in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City.

 The IVS Boarding School under the Institute of Research and Development of Vovinam and Sports is the first centre in Ho Chi Minh City to teenagers and those with gaming or internet addictions.

 Vietnam was one of the most vulnerable countries to rising sea levels, said former prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

 The US Navy has announced its guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) will moor at Tien Sa Port in Danang to participate in bilateral training exercises from Sept. 28-Oct.1 with their counterparts from the Vietnam Navy.

 The central city has granted an investment licence to Da Nang Pharmaceutical joint-stock company (Danapha)'s first nano-technology and biotech project.

  The Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint-stock Bank, or Techcombank, appointed Nguyen Le Quoc Anh, its former deputy chief executive officer, as its new chief executive officer on September 23, 2016.

 South Korea retained its position as Việt Nam's leading source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of this year, the latest report from the Foreign Investment Agency has revealed.

 Viet Nam ranks second among six rated ASEAN countries and 19 globally in HSBC's 2016 Expat Explorer league table of 45 host countries.

 Hanoi triumphed at the National Fencing Championships, which ended at the city’s Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium on Sunday.

 Vietnam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam has advanced 173 places to reach world No. 1,002 in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) men’s doubles rankings. 

 Pham Cao Cuong of HCM City beat his teammate Nguyen Tien Minh to win the men’s singles category of the National Individual Badminton Tournament which wrapped up at the weekend in the northern province of Thái Bình.

 The VN Mathematical Society (VMS) has asked the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to postpone the introduction of multiple-choice math questions for the 2017 national high school examination.

 After five years of aggressive restructuring, the number of securities companies here has reduced from 105 to 81 in 2016. 

This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hanoi on October 13-14.

 Viet Nam and Indonesia are expected to become the two largest business-to-consumer e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia in the next five years.