Around 300 martial artists are competing at the National Wushu Championships in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

The municipal administration of HCM City has requested the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to make several modifications to its proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles in the nation’s bigger cities.

Following a five-month decline, lending by commercial banks began to expand in June and has now risen 3.3 percent over the same period last year.

Coffee exports in the past 10 months set a new record at 1.41 million tonnes, earning more than US$3 billion, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

With its foreign policy of “Look East”, Hungary sees Vietnam as a strategic diplomatic partner in the Asian region.

Top Vietnamese player Ma Xuan Cuong has been invited to take part in the 2013 AGIPI Billiards Masters first qualifying round in Strasbourg, France, on November 23-25.

Vietnam will compete at the World Youth Chess Championship which will take place in Maribor, Slovenia, from November 7-19.

The Southeast Asian (SEA) Fencing Championships will be held in HCM City from November 11-18.

Two of Vietnam's top junior tennis players will compete in the Seogwipo Asia/Oceania Closed International Junior Tennis Championships in November.

Tran Vu Anh Binh, 38, and Vo Minh Tri, 34, were sentenced by a court in Ho Chi Minh City on October 30 to six years and four years in prison, respectively, for activities against the State.