Titanium mining and processing projects in central coast provinces have left negative impact on other economic sectors and put the environment at risk of severe pollution.

 Experts and car owners have objected to a long-planned yet highly controversial scheme to impose a fee on cars entering HCMC’s central business district. 

 The Government will no longer inject more capital into State-funded investment projects that have racked up huge losses, according to a report Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has sent to the National Assembly.

 Vietnamese-French pianist and zither artist Tri Nguyen will give a performance at the theater of the Voice of HCM City's People (VOH) radio station on October 27.

Moves by taxation authorities to increase several taxes and in turn increase the State budget must be carefully implemented to ensure the health of Vietnam’s economy and its business community.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasised that Vietnam will continue to give autonomy to public universities after the pilot project on the autonomy of universities is completed in the next two months.

National Assembly deputies urged the Government to continue to clamp down on illegal deforestation during a discussion on the country’s draft revision to the Law on Forest Protection and Development

 Banks have generated hefty profits in the year’s first three quarters, buoyed by healthy credit growth.

Vietnam’s largest listed company Vinamilk has finalised procedures to sell 3.3 per cent of the residual stake on November 10, whilst the two brewery giants Sabeco and Habeco have yet to submit their divestment plans.

Two historic steam locomotives that were repatriated to Switzerland from Da Lat in 1990 became part of the European country’s celebration of the restored Furka Pass rack railway last week.

Contestants of the Miss Grand International 2017 pageant flaunted their shapely bodies in stunning swimsuits at the preliminary competition on Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province on October 23.

VietNamNet Bridge - The gap between the top 20 percent of the richest people and the lowest 20 per cent of the poor in Vietnam was 4.4 times in 1993, but the figure was 10 times in 2016. 

 Cooperation between Vietnam and Algeria has yet to match potential, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria Pham Quoc Tru. 

Technology giants Alibaba and Tencent are trying to penetrate the Vietnamese e-payment market. 

 As Internet use in Viet Nam continues to rise, avoiding online security threats will become even more difficult, said Vu The Binh, Viet Nam Internet Association (VIA) general secretary, at a symposium in Ha Noi on Tuesday.

 Foreign ownership in the Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) is officially at zero per cent, the bank announced late last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Tu Chinh continued to shine in the short-distance events at the National Athletics Championships at the Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City yesterday.

 The European Commission (EC) has issued a "yellow card" warning to Viet Nam, after the country failed to demonstrate sufficient progress in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing worldwide.

 The General Department of Customs (GDC) on Monday signed a co-operation agreement with five commercial banks to implement a 24/7 e-tax payment scheme.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has proposed to the Prime Minister four different plans to operate airfields in the future, aiming to narrow a yawning gap between the Airports Corporation of Viet Nam’s (ACV) revenue and expenditures.