Two Iranian men have been arrested after being accused of stealing a gold watch in a shop in the northern province of Lang Son.

 Three customs officers in HCM City have been arrested after being suspected of being involved in the theft of 213 containers from a local port in mid-2015.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) has proposed to keeping an illegally built project on the banks of the Saigon River.

 Many hard-working women are receiving unexpected termination letters from their employers and finding it difficult to get another job, says the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour.

 Mavin Group, an Australian-Vietnamese joint venture, has pledged to invest some US$80 million in the north-central province of Nghe An, mainly in the husbandry sector.

 Following an improvement in the first half of the year, the positive performance trend would continue for the banking industry in the second half thanks to high credit growth and supporting policies on settling non-performing loans (NPLs).

 Samsung on Wednesday launched its mobile payment service Samsung Pay in Việt Nam in partnership with the National Payment Corporation of Viet Nam.

 A collision between a North-South cargo train and a truck occurred early on Wednesday at a railway crossing in Nhi Khe Commune, Hanoi's Thuong Tin District. The accident caused serious traffic congestion for hours. 

 A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam led by Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Hoang Binh Quan paid a working visit to the US from September 10 to 13.

 Doksuri, the biggest storm to hit Vietnam in many years, is forecast to make landfall in the central region on late September 15 and early September 16.

 Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam Herminio Lopez Diaz has been honoured with the insignia “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” for his contributions to cooperation and friendship between Vietnam and Cuba.

 The US Department of Commerce has imposed anti-dumping duty of 2.39 USD per kilogramme on frozen tra fish fillets which were imported from Vietnam between August 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016 following its POR 13. 

 The good relationship between Japan and ASEAN provides an impetus for Vietnam – Japan extensive strategic partnership, Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh said following the ninth Japan – ASEAN Deputy Defence Ministerial Meeting. 

 President Tran Dai Quang has sent his greetings to the upcoming 38th General Assembly of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-38), which will take place in Manila, Philippines, from September 14 to 20.

 Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh and his Japanese counterpart Ro Manabe agreed at a meeting on September 12 that the China-ASEAN Code of Conduct (COC) on the East Sea should be effective and legally binding. 

With the state’s policy of using E5 biofuel throughout the country from early 2018, ethanol projects that have been unprofitable will resume their operations, according to PetroVietnam’s CEO Nguyen Vu Truong Son. 

 The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has called on agencies and enterprises across the country to take measures to cope with a possible advanced persistent threat (APT) that is looming large.

The Ministry of Transport and the Hanoi government have agreed on the need to develop an expansion plan in order to raise the annual capacity of Noi Bai Airport to between 80 and 100 million passengers in the future.

In spite of having bleak trading results, both subsidiaries of FPT Corporation—FPT Trading and FPT Retail—are receiving great attention from foreign investors as their stakes are put on sale.

 A tropical depression has strengthened into a new storm in the East Sea after crossing the central region of the Philippines, on the afternoon of September 12.