Vietnamese representative Nguyen Thi Loan will wear a unique dress adorned with conical hats to compete in the national costume contest in the ongoing Miss Universe 2017 pageant in Las Vegas, USA.

 With a continuous year-on-year decline in sales this year, the domestic auto industry is unlikely to achieve the 10 per cent growth predicted by the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).

 Le Van Chung could not hide his happiness when his seven-member team from Duy Tan University won first prize in the information technology (IT) category at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2017 held on Thursday evening.

 The prolonged international focus on Da Nang as the host of this year’s APEC Summit has boosted the city’s brand value, and the local real estate sector will benefit accordingly, experts say.

 Several banks announced they would auction the shares they are holding in companies, in the last two months of the year, on the Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX).

 Nearly 70 per cent of a newly grown protective forest and a large area of Cửa Đại Beach have been washed away by large waves, intense rains and a higher sea level since last year.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Tiền Giang Province to respond to local reports that a section of the Tiền River was filled in to build a nearly 10-ha fruit park in the province’s Cái Bè District.

 American historian Larry Berman, author of a book on Vietnamese legendary spy Phạm Xuân Ẩn, spoke about the famous spy with students from the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) yesterday.

 Police on Thursday confirmed they have detained a couple in HCM City who allegedly used a child to beg for money to buy drugs.

 Nine officials from a public transport operation centre in HCM City were suspended for 15 days after a report published on Thanh Niên (Young people) newspaper on Wednesday claimed they were corrupt.

Residents of Ban Mu Commune in Yen Bai have often relied on the illegal felling of valuable timber from the pơ mu tree (Fujian Cypress) to make ends meet. 

 For six years, Quang has helped hundreds of students cross the road safely. His two daily shifts at Trung Sơn Tram Primary School are inspired by disturbing accidents he saw years ago.

 “Everyone has their own interest. To me, I choose rescuing wild animals as my passion,” said Nguyen Thanh Long from the Central Highlands’s province of Dak Lak.

 Nearly 1,000 people registered to donate their tissue and organs at a health festival that took place in the northern province of Nam Dinh on November 17.

 Indonesia’s Antara News has recently published an article saying the support and active participation of APEC member economies in the freshly-concluded APEC Summit will be a lever for Vietnam to promote its “soft power.”

 A coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tao Dan Park has become a popular place for people who like to listen to and admire beautiful songbirds.

 Deputies raised a number of questions about measures to improve the quality of judicial work and the settlement of economic corruption cases at the Q&A session of the ongoing fourth sitting of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 18.

 Many foreign press outlets have described APEC 2017, with the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang city from November 6-11 the highlight, as a diplomatic success of Vietnam this year.

 Vietnamese leather and footwear exporters must comply with the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement’s rules of origin and be prepared to deal with EU barriers and anti-dumping measures, speakers said at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17.

 iPhone X – Apple’s latest iPhone product – will officially be sold in Vietnam from December 8.