VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s top male tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was ousted from the semi-finals of the France F21 Futures tennis tournament on Saturday.

 Along with the more traditionally domesticated animals – such as dogs, cats, chickens, and pigs – there have been many more unique species that families are starting to regard as pets, including reptiles!

 Improving labour productivity is now critical to boost the country’s GDP and helps Vietnam to become an industrialised and upper-middle income nation in the near future.

 With rapid growth in both planting area and production, Vietnam has become the world’s third largest natural rubber exporter, accounting for about 8.1 percent of the world’s total rubber production.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy announced on Sunday its decision to prosecute the notorious real estate mogul Phan Van Anh Vu and 25 defendants for allegedly causing losses of more than US$160 million to Dong A Bank.

 Vietnam has exported its rice to 150 countries and territories but yet built a trademark for the grain. 

 MANCHESTER — Police in the United Kingdom say they are growing concerned about the whereabouts of a teenager from Vietnam.

 The border guard force of the central province of Quang Tri, in cooperation with local authorized units, arrested two major drug smuggling cases on October 13.

 According to the General Statistics Office, as of September 20, the banking sector’s credit growth was 9.52 percent, much lower than the 11.02 percent rate recorded a year earlier.

 Vietnam sent more than 102,000 labourers to work abroad in the first nine months of this year, according to the Vietnam Labour Export Association.

 A team of the “Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War” (RENEW) project said it safely moved 590 explosive devices from a construction site in the central province of Quang Tri.

 The FPT Corporation and Vietnam Television (VTV) has kicked off the 2018-2019 Digital Race for all students at universities across the country and some schools in Asia.

 Experts said Vietnam’s fruit and vegetables exports may rake in 4 billion USD throughout 2018, fulfilling the target previously set by the sector.

 American conductor Christopher Zimmerman, music director of Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in the US, will lead a Scheherazade concert at the HCM City Opera House on October 19.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc began an official visit to Austria on October 14 as part of his trip to Europe. 

 Vietnam bagged a total of 40 medals, including eight gold, eight silver and 24 bronze medals, ranking 12th at the freshly-concluded 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though the Vietnamese café market has always been bustling, more and more coffee chains are continuing to join the market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sales agents have confirmed that Intel chip supply faces a shortage, which has pushed the price up by VND1 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - Twenty-seven cities/provinces have reported they lack teachers for the 2018-2019 academic year and want to employ new teachers. 

VietNamNet Bridge - More than 77 percent of solid waste in Vietnam is buried, while 80 percent of landfills are unhygienic.