Vietnam expect to win a quarter-final berth at the Asian Football Confederation U19 Championship in Myanmar although they have been drawn in the "Death Group" of the tournament, players and coaches say.

A new coastal transport route between Quang Binh and Kien Giang province opened on October 5, slashing freight rates by up to 75%.

Vietnam will send two representatives to the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Future Stars tournament to be held in Singapore from October 17 to 20.

The Ministry of Transport has allowed the Vietnam Airlines Tourism Company to resume the first-ever sleep pod service at Noi Bai International Airport from on October 7.

Giant Korean companies like Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Doosan, Posco have turned Vietnam into their global production base by ceaselessly expanding investment.

Independent contemporary dance company Arabesque will tour the US this month to play its Suong Som (The Mist) at five shows in St Louis Washington DC, Birmingham, and San Diego.

Groups from Vietnam and Europe have launched a project in Hanoi to help footwear businesses meet product safety requirements.

The rate of households living under the poverty line in Vietnam is expected to remain below 5% in 2015 and fall by about 1.5% annually until 2020.

Vietnam and Israel aim to increase bilateral trade to US$2 billion by 2016, officials said at the first Intergovernmental Committee meeting of the two countries on September 30.

Duong Quoc Trung, a third-year student of Haoi-based British University, won first prize in a writing contest organised by the Peruvian Embassy and the Ministry of Education and Training.