Vietnam now records over 18 million unofficial workers who account for 57.2 percent of non-agricultural workforce, according to a report announced at a seminar held in Hanoi on October 4. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said Vietnam will do its best to foster ASEAN-India strategic partnership in its role as the current coordinator of ASEAN-India ties and a close friend of India. 

 The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said it has captured two Vietnamese fishing vessels found in its territorial waters.

 Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh remains world No. 1 in the men’s 10m air pistol event, according to the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)’s ​October rankings.

Vietnam exported $475 million worth of seafood products to South Korea in the first eight months of the year, an increase of 27 percent compared with the same period last year.

For years, Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago waters have been the traditional fishing grounds of fishermen in Sam Linh Dpng village of Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam province. 

 High staff turnover is the biggest challenge facing the retail sector, according to a recently released Navigos report entitled “Retail Workforce: Factors Which Affects the Retail Workforce: Currently and in 5 Years.”

VietNamNet Bridge - Though it is the world’s top cashew exporter, Vietnam imports 1 million tons of cashew nuts out of 1.4 million tons of raw materials every year for processing. 

 Some 63,000 doses of the Pentaxim vaccine have been imported, according to the representative office of Sanofi Pasteur Company in Vietnam.

 Minister-Chairman of the Govenrment Office Mai Tien Dung said disciplining Secretary and Chairman of Da Nang City will not affect the APEC economic leaders’ week scheduled from November 6-11.

LienVietPostBank is now in talks to sell a 25% stake to a foreign investor, and in order to do so, the bank has locked foreign ownership at 5% to ensure the total foreign room in the bank at 30% as per regulations, said the bank’s top executive.

 Infographic: Top 10 Key Export Products in Jan-Aug

 Vietnam’s international internet connections have been restored to full capacity after repairs on the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) and TGN Intra-Asia (IA) cable systems were completed on September 30.

 Vietnam’s veteran gymnast, Pham Phuoc Hung, has successfully performed a new skill in the men’s still rings at the ongoing 2017 FIG World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada.

 The government has announced plans to build an expressway connecting Vietnam’s two northern provinces of Hoa Binh and Son La, at an estimated cost of VND50.27 trillion (US$2.2 billion).

Latest Nikkei Vietnam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index puts Vietnam well ahead of its ASEAN peers. 

The cable car system which connects Bac Giang Province to Yen Tu Mountain in Quang Ninh Province will operate next year despite concerns over the negative impact on cultural sites and the environment.

 Three people among 28 guests at a wedding party in Ha Giang Province who were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning have died, provincial Department of Health director Luong Viet Thuan said.

 Forty foreign institutional investors have joined the race for shares of the Vietnam Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation (IDICO) at the firm’s initial public offering (IPO).

 Viet Nam’s enterprises feel positive about the business climate for the fourth quarter, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.