The central province has submitted an upgrade plan for Chu Lai Airport to ministry review before it seeks approval from the Prime Minister.

 Typhoon Sarika passed Luzon Island of the Philippines and entered the East Sea on October 16 morning, becoming the seventh storm to hit this waters in 2016. 

 Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa will be the first and only Vietnamese athlete to compete at the upcoming World Women’s Club Volleyball Championship in the Philippines.

 The 2016 Hanoi Ao dai (traditional long dress) Festival opened at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long–Hanoi on the evening of October 14 in the presence of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Cambodia Angkor Air has officially announced that it will launch an international flight between Siem Riep and Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi from October 30. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s pace of borrowing foreign loans and raising capital from government bonds this year is higher compared with the corresponding period of recent years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two schoolgirls from the northern province of Ninh Binh have presented their idea of making a machine to collect and deal with storms underground.

Many specialties of the flooding season in the southwestern region of Vietnam and the Mekong Delta like linh fish, dien dien flowers, shrimp, fish, crabs and snails are scarce as the usual floods have not come.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Museum is now exhibiting valuable pictures of old Hanoi. 

VietNamNet Bridge – Breeding birds of prey like falcons and eagles has been popular among young people in Hanoi in recent years. 

The PM dust content in Hanoi sometimes reaches up to 90-105 micrograms/m3 while the average concentration is 60 micrograms/m3, 6 times higher than recommended by the WHO.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Tobacco Association (VTA) has called for changes to the law to enable authorities to combat the increasing incidence of cigarette smuggling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Israeli Doctor Rafi Kot recently came back from Kon Tum Province’s Kon Plong District where he and his staff provided  free medical checkups and offered consultations, vaccinations and medications

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Van The calls himself a strange man because he spends more time in the forest than at home.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon Classical will hold a concert featuring Classical Favorites at the Southern Women’s Museum in District 3, HCMC next weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi has undergone a hot summer with disastrous rush hours, which could drive anyone insane because of the crowded streets full of smoke.

People have started talking more about conflict handling skills for both children and adults after the suicide of a 15-year-old boy last month. The student, from northern Yen Bai Province, was forced to kneel in public and say “Sorry”

Ms. Hoa Nguyen, Senior Director of Mercer Salary Survey and HR Consulting Services at Talentnet, spoke about its latest salary survey.

 Torrential rains persisting from October 14 have devastated the central provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, causing heavy losses in both human and property.

  Online financial threats are on the rise globally and starting to penetrate the Asia-Pacific region, including Viet Nam, according to IT security experts.