Việt Nam’s U17 football team lost to Myanmar 0-1 in the first match of the Jenesys 2018 international tournament held in Japan on Friday.

 Heritage Space will present a musical night called Đàn Tranh - Cello Improvisation: When East Meets West on Sunday.

 Watercoloured paintings on dó (poonah) paper by Vũ Thái Bình, are on display in Hà Nội reflecting the peaceful and modest daily life.

 Top Vietnamese tennis player Lý Hoàng Nam was defeated in the quarter-finals of the Sweden F5 Futures tennis tournament on Thursday.

 Dozens of major streets in downtown Hà Nội will be closed on Saturday and Sunday for the State funeral of former Party General Secretary Đỗ Mười.

 Ha Long Bay authorities said on Friday they had offered a free cruise to a newlywed South African couple who were scammed by an online tour booking fraud.

 A police officer has been detained as part of an investigation into an alleged child gang rape, Thái Bình police announced on Thursday.

 Residents of Phụ Chính Village in Hòa Chính Commune, Chương Mỹ District want to sell a 200-year-old sưa (dalbergia tonkinensis) tree which was once valued at VNĐ100 billion (US$4.28 million).

 More than 2,000 people including 300 speakers will attend the 16th National Congress of Cardiology in the central city today and tomorrow.

 The Ministry of Finance has proposed to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc measures to address loopholes in the legal framework related to offering state assets to BT investors in exchange for infrastructure.

 Around 100 members of the World Technopolis Association (WTA) from nearly 50 countries and territories will gather next week for the WTA Summit 2018 to be held in Bình Dương Province.

 Hanoi Transport Services Corporation (Transerco), in co-operation with Telecoms Group Viettel, will launch the bus rapid transit (BRT) e-ticket line 01 from Kim Mã to Yên Nghĩa as a pilot program next Wednesday, October 10.

 The 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam focused their discussion on the regulations on Party cadres and members’ responsibility for setting example during the fourth working day of its 8th plenum on October 5. 

Vietnam gained 84 points for the second quarter of 2018 in the Business Climate Index (BCI), up 6 points from the previous quarter, according to new data from the BCI survey released by EuroCham on October 4.

 Vietnam’s flag was hoisted at the athlete village in Jakarta capital of Indonesia at a ceremony on October 5, marking the official presence of the Vietnamese sports delegation to the 2018 Asian Para Games.

 The Military Command and local authorities in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh have successfully defused a big bomb in Tan Bien district.

The telephone on the table rings. Interpreter Vu Hoang Lan receives the call. A pregnant woman standing in a shop is on the phone’s screen. She does not say anything, just shows signals with her hands. 

 About 8 tonnes of ivory and pangolin scales were discovered in a container at Tien Sa port in the central city of Da Nang on October 4, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City handed down jail sentences of between 8-15 years to five men for “attempting to overthrow the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the Penal Code at a first-instance trial held on October 5. 

 Vietnam aims for 9 gold medals at 3rd ASIAN Para Games