Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will lead a high-ranking delegation to the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. 

 Southeast Asia has become Vietnam’s biggest iron and steel importer, making up 57.6 percent of the country’s total export volume in the sector, statistics show.

VietNamNet Bridge - The presence of Chinese e-commerce brands in Vietnam has raised concern that Chinese mobile payment apps and Chinese products will flood the Vietnamese market.

 Vietnam national women’s volleyball team gained the fifth place at the sixth Asian Volleyball Confederation Cup for Women after trouncing the Republic of Korea (RoK) 3-0 at Chartchai Hall, Thailand on September 23.

 Vietnam’s U19 football squad ranked third at the four-nation international friendly tournament in Qatar after being beaten 2-1 by Uruguay on September 22.

 Outstanding performance of financial-banking and petroleum stocks that helped Viet Nam’s benchmark VN-Index re-take the 1,000-point level is expected to continue in the last week of September.

 Around 100 officials representing State agencies, hotel and resort developers, design and architecture firms, and solution providers from around the world are gathering today in HCM City for the Second Annual Global Hotels and Resorts conference.

 Viet Nam is quickly emerging as a top global travel destination and a key focus market for international hotel groups.

 Hanoian Nguyen Tien Hung won the men’s 100km event at the Viet Nam Mountain Marathon (VMM), the country’s biggest ever mountain race, which ended in Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province over the weekend.

Although they were defeated by U16 Bangladesh 2-0 in their last match of the first qualifying round for the 2019 AFC Women’s U16 Championship, held yesterday in Bangladesh, U16 Vietnam still advanced to the second qualifying round.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s textile and garment exports to South Korea are expected to increase by 20 percent this year and continue rising in upcoming years.

Encouraged by the government and local authorities, investors have registered to build many waste treatment projects in recent years. However, many of the projects have been revoked as investors have failed to implement their commitments.

VietNamNet Bridge - In childhood, Huynh Lam Tinh, in HCM City, had a rather strange hobby. He showed special passion for bubbles and paper folding, and liked contemplating bridges.

 A group of 988 Vietnamese guest workers who had been staying illegally in the Republic of Korea (RoK) voluntarily returned home during the first half of this year.

 Pope Francis sent a message of condolences to Vietnam on the passing of President Tran Dai Quang, reported the Vatican Radio on September 22.

 The Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President, the Government and the Vietnam Fatherland Front have issued a special communiqué, announcing that President Tran Dai Quang died at 10:05am on September 21.

 The annual Sa Pa international mountain marathon 2018, the sixth of its kind, took place in Sa Pa district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on September 21-23, as part of the Sa Pa autumn festival 2018. 

 The total number of national registered domain names with “.vn” reached 453,979 as of last month, an increase of 9.33 per cent over the same period last year, according to the Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre.

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) has offered to sell 45.6 million shares it is holding in the Viet Nam Export-Import Joint Stock Commercial Bank (Eximbank).

 A ceremony to pay tribute to President Tran Dai Quang will take place from 7am on September 26 at the National Funeral House, No5 Tran Thanh Tong Street, Hanoi.