Beta Media entered Vietnam’s cinema market as a new player focusing on the budget segment and has well and truly made a mark.

A send-off ceremony for security forces and a counter-terrorism exercise to protect security at the coming APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city were held on October 24.

 Fifteen teams from eight countries, including two Vietnamese teams, have been selected to present their smart city building solutions at the Demo Day of the Global Smart City Innovation Challenge for Vietnam (SCIC) competition in November.

 Main activities of APEC Economic Leaders’ Week

 Prime Minister of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis expressed his wish to enhance people-to-people and cultural exchange, tourism and education-training cooperation with Vietnam during a working session with Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh.

 As many as 45 fencers will represent Vietnam to battle in all competition categories at the sixth Asian U23 Championships 2017, scheduled to take place in Hanoi between October 26 and 31.

VietNamNet Bridge - In 2016, Vietnam received 10 million foreign travelers and served 62 million domestic travelers.

Representatives from Toray International-one of Japan’s largest producers of clothing items-are expected to come to Vietnam next month to work with authorities of Quang Ninh on a major plant in the province, also its first in Vietnam.

 Nguyen Hong Truong, deputy head of IDG Ventures Vietnam and one of the founders of Vietnam's start-up community, died on October 22 from a stroke.

 Two people have been killed and four others seriously injured in a fire which burnt down a house in Ho Chi Minh City's District 9 early Tuesday morning. 

 The number of corruption cases as well as death penalties handed to corrupted officials in the first three quarters of this year have increased compared to the same period last year, according to a government report.

 The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) has reported VND2.68 trillion (US$119 million) as its pre-tax profit for the third quarter, marking a yearly increase of 31 per cent.

 A delegation of Vietnamese fruit and vegetable export firms will travel to three European countries - France, Germany and Poland - to explore business opportunities there, baodautu.vn reported.

 Viet Nam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will compete in the Yonex French Open 2017, which begins today in Paris.

 The Vietnam Open 2017 tennis tournament began on October 23 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 The poor standing of Chinese contractors in infrastructure projects in Vietnam has cast a cloud over the Long Thanh International Airport project.

In the first nine months of the year, Vietnam imported $680 million worth of fruits from Thailand, or 60 percent of total fruit imports. 

 The fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is providing numerous challenges, besides opportunities, to SMEs in joining global value chain, heard a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on October 23.

 Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong on October 23 received outgoing US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, who came to bid farewell to the municipal leaders.

 A send-off ceremony for security forces and a counter-terrorism exercise to protect security at the coming APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city were held on October 24.