Vietnam lost 8-0 to Japan in their first match of Group B at the Asian Football Confederation U19 Women’s Championship on October 16 in Nanjing, China.

Eleven ethnic-minority households in the Hoang Su Phi District of Ha Giang Province are operating an experimental home-stay service as part of a project to improve the livelihoods of ethnic minorities.

A series of culinary events and trade promotions will be held during “Un Mois En France” (One Month in France) programme in November. 

The local steel sector saw a high growth rate in the first nine months of the year, despite difficulties, said Viietnam Steel Association (VSA).

The northernmost province in the country is no longer a “remote area” in the tourism sense of the word.

The average income per capita in Vietnam will reach about US$3,000 in 2020 and the demand for cars will boom, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s (MoIT) forecast presented on Thursday (October 12) at a seminar in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s economic growth in the third quarter was the highest in seven years, though overall inflation also started inching up in August and continued throughout September after a sharp decline since the start of the year.

A European language festival in Hanoi will allow visitors to learn English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish and learn about the diversity of the continent.

The fourth Vietnam Junior Fashion Week 2017 (VJFW 2017) will be held in HCM City from October 13 to 15. 

State budget revenue in the first nine months of the year totaled VND843 trillion (US$37 billion), up 13.9% year-on-year and equivalent to 69.5% of the annual target.