Millionaire Chess Open Grandmaster Le Quang Liem will be the only representative of Vietnam at this year's Millionaire Chess Open in Las Vegas, which takes place from October 8-12.

The central city started the final countdown for the fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG5), which starts on September 24.

Vietnam has yet to have a modern, large-scale pulp production chain, despite the approval of several projects, Vu Ngoc Bao, general secretary of the Vietnam Pulp and Paper Association told Vietnam Economic Times.

The working age cap for Vietnamese soldiers is expected to be raised by a maximum of six years, according to the draft Law on Professional Soldiers and Military Personnel.

The capital city's 23 pedestrian tunnels or subways, once often filled with rubbish, described as unclean, unsanitary and even sleazy, have been upgraded and fully utilised.

Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP) will likely to grow 6.5% in 2015 and 6.6% in 2016, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on September 22 in Hanoi.

Vietnamese and American artists will tour together to perform a dance project in Hanoi, northern province of Ha Long and HCM City on September 25 and 27.

The fourth Southeast Asian Handball Championships will begin in HCM City's Tan Binh Sports Centre on September 23.

Vietnam national women's futsal team lost to China 2-3 in the second match of Group B of the 2015 AFC Women's Futsal Championship in Nilai, Malaysia on September 22.

About 10 % of married couples in Vietnam are infertile. The statistic has been presented recently on the three-year anniversary of the establishment of the Reproductive Support Ward during the final workshop of "Golden week – supporting infertile couples", organised by the Andrology and Infertility Hospital of Hanoi.