Viet Nam placed first at the fourth Asian Pencak Silat Championship, which closed on Thursday at Sher-e-Kashmir Indoor Stadium, in Srinagar City, India.

 Ly Hoang Nam booked a ticket to compete in the quarter-finals of the Sweden F5 Futures tennis tournament on Wednesday.

The flooding season offers its own specialties for Mekong Delta residents to earn their living when surrounded by rising water.

Retailers have slashed prices for Galaxy Note 8, S9, Sony Xperia XZ2, BlackBerry Key 2 and old-generation iPhones as new iPhones have arrived in Vietnam, while genuine 2018 iPhones will hit the shelves soon.

Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN held a ceremony to pay tribute to former Party General Secretary Do Muoi on October 4 and opened a funeral book from October 4 through October 5.

 The Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards on October 4 carried out a joint exercise off the Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu state, India.

 Real estate attracts 23 percent of the total FDI injection into Vietnam in the first three quarters of 2018, property services firm CBRE Vietnam said on October 4.

 Vietnam and the US convened a defence policy dialogue in Hanoi on October 4, discussing measures to enhance the effectiveness of bilateral defence cooperation.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has issued directions guiding coastal localities in intensifying measures to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. 

“If Malaysians can manufacture semiconductor integrated circuits, Vietnamese will also be able to do this. Vietnamese may lag behind Japanese, for many reasons, but they must not be behind Malaysia,” said Nguyen Xuan Thuy from MTEX Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - As a country with a high waste disposal rate, Vietnam is facing environmental dangers due to lack of professional waste treatment.

The Ministry of Education and Training has released an instruction asking teachers and managerial officers not to allow students write in textbooks so the books can be used again.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of projects left unimplemented for many years have changed hands, while more and more large transfer deals have been reported recently.

 Although Viet Nam has focused on increasing labour productivity and overall productivity growth, there have been relatively few opportunities for SMEs to get customised support as they grow.

 Two households in Tran Van Thoi town have submitted explosives to the relevant local agency after a warhead explosion left three people dead and two others injured in the locality on October 1.

 Vietnam on October 4 asked other countries to make positive and practical contributions to the maintenance of peace and stability, respecting and fully implementing relevant international obligations, and upholding the law on the seas and oceans.

 The Vietnamese Government commits to building a more favourable and competitive investment environment towards international standards and in accordance with commitments to high standards the country has made in new-generation free trade agreements.

 The eighth plenum of the 12th Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee had the third working day in Hanoi on October 4. 

 National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will lead a high-ranking delegation to attend the third Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries' Parliaments (MSEAP) and visit Turkey from October 7-12.

 The 58th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 2 after seven days of working.