Many fast food chains, from fried chicken to pizza, have been incurring losses.

 Vietnam has proposed initiatives to enhance the role of the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership (ASEP) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in coping with climate change. 

 The GDP growth rate for the January-September period was 6.98 percent, the highest for the same period over the past eight years, the General Statistics Office announced on September 28.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – A documentary featuring the tough journey of a transgender person trying to find an identity by two independent film makers is set to be screened in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More breakthrough solutions are needed to help farmers in the Mekong Delta cope with unpredictably rising water levels, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa will organise a festival dedicated to local heroes who lived more than 600 years ago.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications is encouraging the development of broadband infrastructure to complete the 4G network and begin work on 5G as early as possible to enhance the performance of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Viet Nam was one of three countries added onto FTSE Russell’s watch list for a possible future upwards reclassification.

 The latest US tariffs on Chinese auto parts was likely to hit Viet Nam’s rubber industry, said the head of the Vietnam Rubber Association (VRA)’s Rubber Development Consulting Division Tran Thi Thuy Hoa.

 Low consumption, high inventory and continuously plunging prices mean tough times for domestic sugar mills, said chairman of the Viet Nam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA) Pham Quoc Doanh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There is a Vietnamese saying about parents’ care-giving: “When young, one relies on one’s father, and when old, one relies on one’s children”.

 Ship 015-Tran Hung Dao of the Vietnam People’s Navy arrived at Yokosuka naval base in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture on September 27, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper reported.

The profitability rate of Vietnam’s high-end real estate is much more attractive than in other ASEAN countries, which explains why Asian realtors are flocking to Vietnam.

Startup funds only reserve 10 percent of their capital in agriculture, a field which bears high risks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City fire brigade has called on people running shops at home to take proper preventive measures against fire.

 Vietnam and the United Nations have inked a memorandum of understanding on Vietnam’s deployment of a field hospital to South Sudan.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 24th round of V. League 1 action continues in earnest across the country today.

 Leaders of foreign countries and international organisations have continued to offer condolences over the passing of President Tran Dai Quang to the Party, State, Government and people of Vietnam and his bereaved.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a seminar on investment attraction to Vietnam in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with more than 40 leading businesses of the US in New York city on September 27.

Vietnamese PM addressed the High-level General Debate of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly, calling on countries to continue highlighting the role of the UN and join hands for a world of peace, equality and sustainable development.