Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will meet with State-owned enterprises (SOEs) on September 28 in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dang Quang Tan, Deputy Director of the Preventive Medicine Department, speaks to Kinh Tế & Đô Thị (Economic & Urban Affairs) newspaper on efforts to prevent infectious diseases in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The 14th assembly of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Auditing Institutions (ASOSAI) is an international ministerial-level gathering that is being held in Vietnam for the first time in 2018. 

Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Vietnam Ho Duc Phoc received the chairmanship of ASOSAI from Malaysia at the first plenary session of the 14th ASOSAI Assembly in Hanoi on September 19.

At least five banks are running against the clock to list shares on the bourse this year. Other banks are silent or have delayed listing plans for an indefinite time.

The move to slash prices of Sony’s models has raised doubts that Sony is trying to dump stock before leaving Vietnam. But Sony has denied this.

The percentage of Vietnam’s businesses having ISO 14000 certificates is below the average level and much lower than that in China. 

The first textbook replacement campaign in 1981-1992 finished just before the Ministry of Education and Training began implementing a project on compiling new textbooks for the second time in October 1993, using ODA capital.

 The 35th ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) Board Meeting wrapped up on September 19, after two days of working, in Nha Trang city, in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

 The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) will take over the rotating chairmanship of the ASEAN Social Security Association in the 2018-2019 term. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 150 paintings, graphic works, engraved works and sculptures by art students nationwide are on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Association.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said on Wednesday that there was high risk of landslide in northern provinces including Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Hoa Binh.

Huynh Thuy Vi recently flew out of Ho Chi Minh City to represent Vietnam at the Miss Asia Pacific International 2018 pageant in Manila, the Philippines.

 Tran Tieu Vy is just the fourth contestant in the history of the Miss Vietnam pageant to win the crown at the age of 18.

 A Japanese man was charged 10 times more than his trip should have cost in a taxi in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi police have detained deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Agricultural Economic Science and Rural Development Association Le Minh Tien for property appropriation.

 Transparency is critical to enhance the efficiency of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) as Viet Nam enters a new phase of equitisation which will focus on quality rather than quantity.

 Viet Nam needs to improve the quality of its technical and vocational education and training to meet the requirements of digitisation and industry 4.0, a conference heard in HCM City on Tuesday.

 The Mekong River Commission organised a consultation workshop in HCM City yesterday for the Pak Lay hydropower project proposed on the Mekong’s mainstream in Xayaburi Province in north-western Laos.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A recent exchange camp hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism was attended by 22 artists from 11 Asian countries.