Thousands of rubber growers in the central province of Quang Binh have seen their rubber plantations damaged by Storm Doksuri.

 Unless city authorities restructure Noi Bai International Airport soon, it will face serious overloading over the next few years, Minister of Transport Truong Quang Nghia warned at a recent meeting.

 Vietnam topped the sixth Asian Aerobics Championship, which closed on Sunday in Mongolia.

 Vietnam will produce its own vaccine against avian influenza A/H5N1 from 2018 to replace imported vaccines, according to the National Veterinary JSC, Navetco.

Vietnam has recorded substantive improvement of its stature since it became a member of the UN four decades ago, Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh affirmed in an interview posted on the Government web portal.

Quang Nam came from behind to beat leaders FLC Thanh Hoa with a score of 3-2 in the 18th round of the V-League 2017 on September 17, thus reclaiming third-place position from Saigon.

 Criminal charges have been brought against Trinh Thi Kim Chi, a former director of the private lender OceanBank’s Hai Phong branch, following an alleged fraud that caused total losses of VND400 billion (US$17.6 million) to its depositors.

The imposition of an anti-dumping duty on Chinese imports is not expected to help domestic steel manufacturers, unless comprehensive solutions are taken, experts say.

The European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade and the Vietnamese Government have agreed they must make concerted efforts to secure ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement in the next eight or nine months.

Vietnam spends up to around $500 million annually on importing plant varieties despite having many agricultural research institutes.

Representatives from eleven countries will continue negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Japan in September. 

 In the first eight months of the year Vietnam attracted foreign investment worth more than US$23.36 billion, a year-on-year increase of 45.1 per cent.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has valued the Vietnam Rubber Group, the country’s largest rubber company, at VND4 trillion, not including its land, marking another step toward its equitisation by the end of 2017.

 Promoting regional linkage from production to distribution is essential to turn the country’s southern part into a trade hub.

 HCM City has called for more investment in solar power in the city due to the great potential of the sector.

More and more foreign retailers are entering the Vietnamese market to a warm welcome from buyers, while Viet Nam’s domestic brands look for their own growth strategies against the newcomers.

 The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) officially opened yesterday in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashgabat.

 Japanese Sota Hara and Thailand’s Pujyanuch Prachayanipon won the men’s and women’s Hội An International Marathon in the historic coastal city yesterday.

 Urban Traffic Management Board No 1 under HCM City’s Department of Transport has begun testing one-way traffic for vehicles on the flyover at Cong Hoa-Hoang Hoa Tham Intersection in Tan Binh District.

 HCM City has run out of the Pentaxim vaccine that protects children against five diseases, however drug companies say they will import more vaccine doses next month, according to the city’s health department.