The central coastal city of Da Nang has been selecting the best volunteers to serve the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in November, the most important external event of the city and Vietnam in 2017.

 The Ministry of Finance and the central city of Da Nang continued to lead in Vietnam ICT Index 2017, said the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Vietnam Association for Information Processing.

 Ho Chi Minh City will enhance supervision of food safety and issue harsh penalties on violators; moreover, violators will face criminal charges if they cause serious incidents and violators will be publicized names on the public media.

 Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has approved construction project of a new science and technology park on a nearly 200 hectare plot in District 9.

 According to information from a businessman attending global seafood conference in Bali, Indonesia, seafood import market will move toward Asian region  comprising Japan, South Korea and China in the near future.

 Scientific Prof. Dr. Dang Huy Huynh, former Director of the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), is one of the 10 individuals to receive the 2017 ASEAN Biodiversity Heroes Award. 

 UDI Maps, a mobile flood-warning application, has been made available in the application stores of iOS and Android operating systems in order to help local people in Ho Chi Minh City avoid flooding.

 Vietnamese wushu artists performed successfully at the 2017 World Wushu Championships that concluded recently in Kazan, Russia, finishing in sixth place overall with a collection of two gold, five silver and two bronze medals.

VietNamNet Bridge - The rent for retail premises has increased by 4.8 percent in HCMC’s central area over the previous quarter and by 1.5 percent in other areas of the city. 

In the past nine months, Vietnam received a total registered FDI of almost US$25.5 billion, up 34.3% from last year. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to deal with 12 loss-making industrial projects managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

 Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) has announced that it issued 281 securities trading codes to foreign investors during September.

 Even though Vietnam has advantages to develop industrial and agritourism, it is still struggling to find ways to make the most out of those potential tourism resources.

Cil Duin, a 41 year-old man from the K’Ho ethnic minority in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, has become the first of his people to receive a doctorate. 

 While loading goods for delivery to customers’ homes last Saturday, Tran Van Khuong, a delivery worker at Co.opmart Cà Mau, saw a woman’s handbag lying in a trolley. It had obviously been left behind by an absent-minded customer.

 Many national historic relic sites in Hanoi have been encroached upon for parking areas under the lax management of local authorities, Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

 International-standard training programmes are being used at many universities in HCM City to help improve the quality of human resources, representatives of higher education institutions said at a conference held yesterday.

 In the middle of a forest in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, classes teaching reading and writing for under-50-year-olds have been held in the evenings for the past two years.

 It is a risky, dangerous job with little protection and not much income, but many people in Ben Tre Province dive into rivers and search for scrap metal, sunk boats and other pieces of usable junk.

Indian Ambassador P. Harish told VIR that the two countries are entering their economic primes, and that Indian firms are starting to consider Vietnam a good target for their investments.