State budget revenues as of September 15 reached VND898.3 trillion (US$38.24 billion), equivalent to 68.1% of the year`s estimate.

 Vietnam should further promote the transparency if it wants to attract more FDI inflow from the world’s leading investors, especially those from the US and EU, into high-tech and modern services sectors, experts suggested.

 The move is necessary for Vietnam Electricity to cover an incurred cost of VND20.73 trillion (US$892.18 million) in the 2018 - 2019 period, stated the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on its website.

Small banks and finance companies are now rushing to issue credit cards and compete with big banks as they believe the development potential of the credit card market remains great.

 The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will host the first Regional Congress on Geology, Mineral and Energy Resources of Southeast Asia (GEOSEA 15) on October 16-17.

 A series of policies on business registration, rice export business, management of foreign exchange for border trade activities between Viet Nam and China come into force in October. 

 Viettel FC has officially been promoted to Vietnam’s top-tier football league, V.League, after beating Binh Phuoc 2-0 at home in the penultimate round of the 2018 First Division tournament to confirm themselves as the champions with one game in hand.

 While Korea, Japan, and Singapore are the largest foreign investors in Vietnam, investment flows the US and Europe also promise to pick up.

Trinh Huu Tung, Meritorious Doctor and Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Paediatric Hospital No. 2, speaks to Khoa học & Đời sống newspaper on his hospital’s plan to offer a new health tourism model

 Fraud in cash-on-delivery payments has sparked a need for the use of e-payments in the domestic delivery market, which is seeing big competition between service providers.

Vu Minh Giang, Chair of Scientific and Training Council of the Viet Nam National University, talks to the newspaper Công Thương on how to improve the competitiveness for university graduates in the labour market.

 US officials have reiterated the US’s policy of respecting independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, political system and development path of Vietnam during recent meetings with Vietnamese officials, said a Vietnamese diplomat. 

 Archeologists delivered 356 reports on the new archeological findings around Vietnam at an announcement event held for the sector during the weekend in the city of Hue.

 Effective administrative reform policies and positive impacts of free trade agreements Vietnam has signed have contributed to the country’s employment situation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Mirror space is at a premium at a bar on the edge of the Old Quarter. But only on one particular night.

 The Vietnamese delegation arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 1 to compete in the third Asian Para Games scheduled for October 6-14. 

 Four Vietnamese citizens on board Papua New Guinea’s Air Niugini plane, that overshot the runway in Micronesia on September 28, have been confirmed as safe and sound.

 Sound strategies should be put in place in response to Vietnam’s ageing population, which has one of the fastest rates in the world, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs Le Tan Dung.

 Positive signs have been seen in the three areas of agriculture, industry, and service so far this year, while inflation was also controlled to under 4 percent as targeted.

 A warhead explosion on October 1 killed three people in Tran Van Thoi town, Tran Van Thoi district of the southern Ca Mau province, confirmed the district police.