The Israel Film Festival will open with Foreign Letters by writer and director Ela Their on November 1.

Businesses and producers should provide comprehensive product information to prevent the illegal trade in counterfeit goods, as it is difficult to differentiate genuine from fake items.

Two Japanese calligraphers, along with a Vietnamese calligrapher who has been their tutor for nearly a year, are holding a joint exhibition titled Duyen (Predestined Affinity), displaying 60 of their works in HCM City.

A poverty reduction programme for farmers was discussed at a meeting in Hanoi on October 20.

Smart-city solutions and deepened innovation and business cooperation between Vietnam and Finland are on the agenda when Finland's Minister for Economic Affairs, Jan Vapaavuori, visits Hanoi on October 20 and HCM City tomorrow.

Le Van Cong won Vietnam's first gold medal in the Asian Para-Games in Incheon, in the Republic of Korea on October 19.

Three German artists, violinist Hellen Weiss, cellist Gabriel Adriano Schwabe and conductor Alexander Merzyn will perform in a special concert held this Sunday at the HCM City Opera House by the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) in cooperation with the German Music Council and Conductors Forum.

The Health Ministry has issued a warning to residents of mountainous areas about the spread of the Tsutsugamushi disease, which has already infected 78 people in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

Discarded phones and tablets are among waste products that will be retrieved and processed from January 1, 2015, under a decision taken by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Vietnam's national football team beat J-League 2's Kyoto Sanga 4-3 in their third friendly match in Japan on October 15.