A programme to sort waste at source has been started at HCM City’s export processing zones (EPZ) and industrial parks (IP) by the HCM City EPZ Authority (HEPZA) and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts believe that the upgrading of the Vietnam’s stock market from frontier to secondary emerging will occur in 2019, or at the latest in 2020.

Nguyen Van Ly, deputy director general of the Viet Nam Bank for Social Policy, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay about the challenges the bank has faced over the last five months implementing the Government Decree 100/2015

 Domestic banks have been enlarging their network of branches and transaction offices rapidly in recent years in an effort to increase market share.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries to speed up the reviewing and elimination of unnecessary business prerequisites in an effort to create favourable conditions for enterprises.

 Viet Nam placed first at the fourth Asian Pencak Silat Championship, which closed on Thursday at Sher-e-Kashmir Indoor Stadium, in Srinagar City, India.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of senior architects have objected to plans to build sewer system into Kim Nguu River, one of the most polluted in the city.

 Ly Hoang Nam booked a ticket to compete in the quarter-finals of the Sweden F5 Futures tennis tournament on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of tonnes of garlic in Khanh Hoa Province is in danger of rotting, as a lack of demand has forced farmers to put their crops in storage.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi People’s Committee aims to implement several projects to strengthen national capacity in response to climate change and environmental pollution in the capital during 2016-2020.

The flooding season offers its own specialties for Mekong Delta residents to earn their living when surrounded by rising water.

Retailers have slashed prices for Galaxy Note 8, S9, Sony Xperia XZ2, BlackBerry Key 2 and old-generation iPhones as new iPhones have arrived in Vietnam, while genuine 2018 iPhones will hit the shelves soon.

 After amazing Hanoi’s audience with an outdoor concert last year, the world-famous London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is back in the capital city for a musical extravaganza on October 5 night.

 Over 200 images and objects related to the national hero late General Vo Nguyen Giap are being featured at an exhibition hosted by the Vietnam Military History Museum.

Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN held a ceremony to pay tribute to former Party General Secretary Do Muoi on October 4 and opened a funeral book from October 4 through October 5.

 The Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards on October 4 carried out a joint exercise off the Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu state, India.

 Real estate attracts 23 percent of the total FDI injection into Vietnam in the first three quarters of 2018, property services firm CBRE Vietnam said on October 4.

Numerous efforts have been made to encourage reading habit among young Vietnamese people, especially in the digital era when more entertainment forms are available and reading enjoyment declines.

 Vietnam and the US convened a defence policy dialogue in Hanoi on October 4, discussing measures to enhance the effectiveness of bilateral defence cooperation.

 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has issued directions guiding coastal localities in intensifying measures to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.