VietNamNet Bridge - Twenty-seven cities/provinces have reported they lack teachers for the 2018-2019 academic year and want to employ new teachers. 

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 77 percent of solid waste in Vietnam is buried, while 80 percent of landfills are unhygienic. 

 Vietnamese swimmer Vo Thanh Tung was among outstanding athletes honoured at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Para Games, which took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 13 evening.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc left Hanoi on October 14 morning for Vienna, Austria, to attend the 12th ASEM Summit and the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 Summit. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Mechanical engineering is considered the backbone of the national economy. However, after many years of development, the industry can only satisfy 32 percent of domestic demand.

Le Thanh Thao, country representative of the UN Industrial Development Organization in Vietnam, writes about the circular economy – a new method of creating value and ultimately prosperity as well as protecting the environment.

Companies and organisations talked about their view on Vietnam’s foreign investment journey, what changes they would like to see, and what upcoming trends they anticipate.

VietNamNet Bridge - With the government’s Decree 60, businesses now have the right to lift the foreign ownership ratio ceiling to 100 percent. 

 Vietnam is now edging even closer to the coveted emerging market status, after FTSE Russell announced that the country is now on the watch list to join its secondary emerging market ranking.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vinamilk and Nutifood have decided to enter foreign markets. 

 Huynh The Du, lecturer at the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, highlights the importance to have in place breakthrough policies to optimise the efficiency of state capital divestment and state-owned enterprises’ equitisation process.

Addressing the High-level General Debate of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on countries to continue highlighting the role of the UN and join hands for a world of peace, equality and sustainable development.

 The Philippines is initiating an investigation on whether to apply safeguard measures on imported cement, raising concerns that Vietnam could lose a major export market.

 Việt Nam’s No 1 chess player Lê Quang Liêm will compete in the Isle of Man (IoM) International Chess Tournament, one of the strongest open tournaments in the world.

 Hospitals in HCM City have been told to detect, classify and isolate patients with measles, dengue fever or hand-foot-mouth (HFM) disease to avoid cross-contamination, Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has said.

 The iNut Smartcity Team from Việt Nam’s University of Economics and Law has won the World Technopolis Association (WTA) 2018 Bình Dương Smart City Initiative Competition.

 Vietnam’s real estate market in the final quarter of 2018 is likely to see the strongest growth of the year in housing transactions, even higher than that of the same period last year.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s participation in the ASEAN Leaders’ Gathering and his visit to the archipelago nation on October 11 and 12 reaped fruitful outcomes.

 The 16th World Technopolis Association (WTA) Mayors’ Forum took place in the southern province of Binh Duong on October 12, attracting the participation of WTA President Her Tae-jeong and mayors of 30 cities over the world.

 Minister of Justice Le Thanh Long led a Vietnamese delegation to participate in the 10th ASEAN Law Ministers Meeting (ALAWMM 10) in Vientiane on October 12.