Eight national leading athletes will compete in the final of the Trang Co Dat Viet, a year-end event of Chinese chess tournament for best players.

 ASEAN sprint queen Le Tu Chinh will begin a long training residence at the IMG Academy in Florida this December.

 Duong Van Thai triumphed in the men’s 1,500m category on the last day of competition in the National Athletics Championship at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City yesterday.

 As many as 25 guitar players from Thailand and Viet Nam are participating in the first ever Alma Hanoi International Festival and Competition, held in Hanoi from October 27 to 29.

 Local audiences will have chance to enjoy traditional theatre performances from Vietnamese and Chinese troupes from Saturday till Monday.

 Designer Nguyen Cong Tri will open the Việt Nam International Fashion Week (VIFW) Fall/Winter 2017, which will take place in Hanoi from October 31 to November 3.

 The Breast Cancer Network Vietnam (BCNV) is calling for hair donations as part of the Pink Hat Festival, which will be held on Sunday to raise awareness, especially among women, about the threat of breast cancer.

 Police of Dong Hoi City in the central province of Quang Binh have launched an official investigation into an assault on a doctor at a city hospital.

Taxi monopolies can also be observed at big hospital in the capital city, including the Hospital of Medical University, National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Thanh Nhàn Hospital.

 More than 40 per cent of students aged from 7 to 13 in big cities such as Hanoi and HCM City suffer from eye defects, with short-sightedness accounting for two-thirds of cases, according to health sector statistics.

 HCM City is considering an eight-year plan to reduce the exploitation of groundwater resources in an aim to protect residents’ health and avoid risks of land subsidence.

 Hundreds of students in central Ha Tinh Province risk their lives every day, commuting to schools on unsafe bridges and via obsolete boats.

 An inaccurate labour database and poor forecasting is exacerbating the nation’s unemployment problem, officials admitted at a conference on Thursday.

VietNamNet Bridge – Since its establishment in 1982, no female teacher has worked at a primary school in the central province of Nghe An because the working conditions are very difficult. 

 More than 90 per cent of HCM City’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.

 Under the project, railway viaduct spans on Phung Hung Street which stretch from its intersection with Le Van Linh Street to that with Hang Cot Street are going to be turned into canvas by artists from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea.

 Export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products is expected to reach 2.74 billion USD in October, bringing the ten-month figure to nearly 29.76 billion USD, up 12.7 percent year-on-year.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan on the establishment of a national natural resources and environmental monitoring for 2017-2022.

 A regional safe water supply project with total investment of about 1.7 billion USD will be launched in the Mekong Delta, said a representative from the Technical Infrastructure Agency of the Ministry of Construction.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Ngo Huong Nam has paid a courtesy call on Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop.