Hoang Thanh Trang has added another feather to her cap, emerging victorious at the Hungary women’s blitz chess tournament held recently in Budapest.

 The industrial real estate market has picked up pace in 2016 as foreign investment continues to pour in Vietnam.

 The economic growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2016 must be much higher than that of previous months in order to achieve the GDP growth set for this year, the Government reported to the National Assembly Standing Committee on October 17.

 The Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) is actively supervising the recall and exchange programme of all Galaxy Note 7 models from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Viet Nam Co Ltd (SEMV).

 A baby born with suspected microcephaly ​has been reported in Krong Buk district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, according to the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine.

The northern mountainous province of Cao Bang has welcomed its first baby conceived via intrauterine insemination, marking the development of the local health sector in applying advanced technology in treatment.

 Vietnam will suspend the import of Distiller’s dried grains with soluble (DDGS) from the US and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) from Sudan and Hong Kong (China) due to the products’ contamination with insects subject to Vietnam’s plant quarantine. 

Prolonged heavy rain due to a tropical low pressure from October 14 - 15 inundated many streets and residential areas in the central provinces of Nghe An and Quang Binh.

 Localities are making every effort to prepare for the arrival of typhoon Sarika, the seventh of its kind to hit the East Sea so far this year, which is forecast to directly impact the northeastern and central regions on October August 19.

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has said that the north-south highway requires lower costs compared with other projects, but the Ministry of Finance (MOF) says the required investment is high compared with the long-term public investment plan.

 After being temporarily shut down due to landslides in the central province of Quang Binh, local sections of the North-South railway were reopened to traffic on October 17. 

VFF President Nguyen Thien Nhan has called on organisations and individuals at home and abroad to continue support for poor people, especially those affected by natural calamities, to help them overcome difficulties and escape poverty. 

  President Tran Dai Quang led a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam’s State, National Assembly and Government to the Thai Embassy in Hanoi on October 17 to pay respect to late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. 

Some members of the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Committee suggested the government increase monthly basic salary by 7 percent to VND1.3 million ($59) in 2017 at the fourth session of the NA’s Standing Committee in Hanoi on October 17. 

 Voters in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem and Ba Dinh districts contributed their opinions on a range of issues like rural construction, environmental protection and Party building during their meeting with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on October 17.

 Chilean Deputy Foreign Minister Edgardo Riveros Marin has paid a working to Vietnam and attended the fourth political consultation at the deputy foreign minister level.

 The 7th Vietnam-US defence policy dialogue took place in Hanoi on October 17, with both sides looking to enhance ties and multiply cooperative areas. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Many people in the HCM City had to cancel their plans for fear of flooding after the Southern Region Hydrometeorological Forecast Station forecasted the city would experience heavy rains last Saturday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – SHB Da Nang team has completed procedures to secure Vietnamese citizenship for Argentina-born striker Gaston Merlo ahead of the next V.League season.

The Vietnamese revere lotus for its natural beauty, as well as for its nutritious and medicinal properties. Every part of the lotus can be used to cook nourishing dishes and to make herbal medicines to treat many ailments.