Vietnam needs to set up a set of standards on smart urban areas to shape sustainable development of cities, and set criteria for assessing the quality of life and services provided to the community, experts say. 

 Two concerts, entitled ‘Cycle Franz Schubert’, will be held at the French Culture Centre, L'Espace, in Hanoi, on October 18 and 19, promising to delight Hanoi audiences with well-known works by famous composers.

Since 2015, Vietnam has shifted from an energy exporting country to an importing country. It has to import 3 percent of the primary energy needed, but the figure will rise to 24 percent by 2030.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) has proposed adjusting the rate of the capital assignment profit tax imposed on foreign enterprises in Vietnam in an effort to simplify the process of collection and treatment of corporate income taxes. 

 Handshakes between financial technology firms and local banks have become a growing trend in the face of the current boom in mobile payments.

The title of professor and associate professor can only be granted by the State Professorship Title Council. However, experts say it would be better to allow universities to nominate their professors.

80 contestants of the Miss Grand International 2017 beauty pageant wore traditional Vietnamese long dresses for a photoshoot at Heaven (Thien Duong) cave in Quang Binh province on October 10.

 Cities have played an important role in human society for centuries. But it is only recently that the majority of the world’s population has begun to live in such close proximity. 

 A tropical low depression operating in the eastern offshore Philippines is predicted to develop into this year’s eleventh typhoon and hitting the East Sea, warned the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center this morning. 

 Downpours triggered by the tropical low pressure system over the past two days have threatened to overflow reservoirs and have caused serious damage to houses and roads across the northern and central regions.

468 medium- to small-scale hydroelectric plants situated in hilly areas were struck off the national power development programme in the 2011-2020 period due to economic constraints.

 By the end of 2017, Vietnam will see soaring foreign investment capital, reaching $28 billion with an expected record in disbursed FDI capital of $17 billion. 

 The FDI HCM City team played outstandingly to defeat nine-time defending champions New South Wales 6-3 and won the title for men 50-59 years at the Australian Open Veterans Table Tennis Championships on October 11.

An eight-year-old primary school student in Quang Nam has died of diphtheria, while six other students aged four to 12 have been infected with the disease in the mountainous Tra Van commune of Nam Tra My District.

 A photograph of Huyen My, the Vietnamese representative at Miss Grand International, has proven to be among the most popular at the competition. 

 The Vietnamese representative Ha Thu placed third in the talent competition at Miss Earth 2017 after performing the song “Colours of the wind”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi University of Culture on Wednesday organised a ceremony to welcome 96 Korean students who will attend a Vietnamese language and culture course at the university.

 Six wild elephants went on a rampage in a village in Nghe An Province and destroyed crops on October 10.

 A landslide in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has buried eight local households, causing nine deaths, while 10 others have been left trapped.

 The Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) has revised its 2017 growth forecast for Vietnam up to 6.64% in its latest report from its previous projection of 6.37%.