Hard Rock Cafe HCM City will host two "Excitingly Scary" Halloween events on October 31 and November 1.

Businesses that evade paying social insurance premiums for workers should be punished more harshly, the deputy general-director of Vietnam Social Insurance, Do Van Sinh, said  at a meeting on October 15.

Hollywood action star Gary Daniels (Expendables 2010) of the UK has been cast in the Vietnamese film Quyen, which is expected to be released next year.

Six teams will participate in the international U21 football tournament that will be organised in Can Tho City from October 19 to 28, 2014.

Freelance pianist Boris Schonleber of Berlin will perform the music of Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss and Frederic Chopin in a solo concert at the Goethe Insititute on October 18/

Mother Goddess worshippers, as well as those curious about the practice, can enjoy performances dedicated to the deities at a cultural festival in the capital next month.

Several rare wild animals have recently been discovered in U Minh Ha Forest in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than 100 health, livestock and environment experts from 17 countries are discussing ways to promote collaboration in disease prevention in the face of several newly emerging diseases at a three-day workshop that began in Hanoi on October 13.

Vietnam will join the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) in granting certificates for seafood exports to the European Union (EU), the government portal chinhphu.vn reported on October 11.

Vietnam raked in US$109.63 billion from exports in the first nine months of the year, moving closer to its 2014 goal of US$148 billion.