The fourth industrial revolution and digital transformation are bringing sweeping changes to the manufacturing sector and every aspect of socio-economic life around the world. 

 The US-China trade war may bring about a shift in investment flows from Chinese timber firms to Vietnam. Consequently, it is crucial that the Vietnamese wood industry make use of this opportunity to benefit.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the opening ceremony of the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit which took place in Brussels, Belgium, on October 18 evening (local time).

 The first metro project in Ho Chi Minh City may not be completed in 2020 as scheduled due to funding problems.

 Police in Hanoi have summoned three people to investigate the death of a newborn baby who was found dead after allegedly falling from the 31st floor of an apartment building in Linh Dam Urban Area.

The government has approved the establishment of a Fund for Vietnam Sea and Islands, aimed at promoting activities of the national sea and islands sovereignty protection.    

As many as 28 Vietnamese young leaders will embark on a 52-day voyage with their regional peers with the Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Programme from October 23 to December 13.

 Employees at state-owned firms are getting the highest payment according to a new report by the General Statistics Office.

Head of Vietnam’s Mission to the UN, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, expressed his profound concern over the complicated situation in the Middle East, especially the escalating conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

 Shopee has beat Lazada to become the top e-commerce platform by traffic in the third quarter of this year, according to the Map of E-commerce in Viet Nam recently published by Iprice Insight.

 Vietnam’s young talent Nguyen Van Phuong stopped in the quarter-finals of men’s doubles at the World Super Junior Tennis Championships in Japan on Thursday.

 Real estate stocks might peak in the first half of 2019 or even earlier, in the last quarter of this year, experts have forecast.

Vietnam has free trade agreements with Canada, Japan and Mexico (through CPTPP), and plans to sign an FTA with the EU. These will be advantages in the US - China trade war. 

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to remove and simplify 202 business conditions under its management, accounting for 36.1 per cent of the total, said Nguyen Anh Son.

 Brand Finance, the world’s leading independent branded business valuation and strategy consultancy, has valued Viet Nam’s national brand at US$235 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16 per cent.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) injected more than VND41 trillion (US$1.75 billion) into the monetary market in the first half of October to boost the liquidity of the banking system.

Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) has announced a temporary foreign ownership limit at 22.532 per cent of charter capital to prepare for a private placement.

VietNamNet Bridge - The pork market has heated up again, with more imports, especially from the US.

 The European Commission has submitted a free trade agreement with Viet Nam for approval, the first comprehensive open market deal between the EU and a developing Asian country.

 Viet Nam’s trade as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) reached over 200 per cent in 2017, the highest level for any country with over 50 million people in the World Bank’s data set, which goes back to 1960.