Hanoi police have launched an investigation into two Chinese nationals and their alleged swindling to appropriate assets in Vietnam. 

After nearly 10 hours of operation, doctors at the Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City successfully conducted its 10th pediatric liver transplantation on October 4.

Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung fielded questions on hot topics such as the escape of former Party member Trinh Xuan Thanh and the mass fish deaths in West Lake in Hanoi at a press conference on October 4. 

Vietnam Recycles (VR) has launched a door-to-door campaign to collect electronic waste in several districts in HCM City and wards in Hanoi, starting October 8 through December 2016. 

Agriproducts, including specialties from all over the country, will converge at the Vietnamese Safe Farm Products and Food Week that will take place at 142 locations in 12 urban districts in Hanoi from October 12-17. 

Vietnam is participating in the fifty-sixth series of meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 3-11.

The Hanoi Municipal Emulation and Reward Council released the list of nine residents to receive the title of outstanding citizens this year on October 4. 

This is the second time the 2.8 meter-high statue has been stolen.

Vietnam’s plan to take its total number of coal-fired power plants to 31 by 2020 has raised environmental concerns.

Eleven years after its launch, music streaming website nhacSO.net, operated by FPT Telecom, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s biggest software company FPT, officially stopped operation.

VOV.VN - Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group wants to recruit 3,000 unskilled labourers to work in agriculture in Laos and Cambodia with an initial monthly wage of VND5 million (around US$220).

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has issued a decision suspending Petrotimes, the organ of the Vietnam Petroleum Association, for three months and revoking the press card of its editor-in-chief, Nguyen Nhu Phong.

The rice fields on the outskirts of Hanoi are in the summer - autumn crop harvest. Farmers maintain the old routine of burning straw after harvest, creating dust and smoke.

Cambodia has agreed to increase the monthly minimum wage for apparel and footwear workers from US$140 to US$153 from January 2017.

Two people were killed after a man committed suicide by detonating a self-made bomb on October 3 in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh.

According to a new goal set by the Indonesian Government, there will be no more child labour in the country by 2022.

The Hanoi-based Saint Paul general hospital on October 4 announced the establishment of a high-tech medical centre, the first one in the capital city that meets international standards. 

French experts are willing to assist the General Hospital of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in applying advanced medical techniques, Jean-Patrick Lajonchere, France’s export coordinator for healthcare products and services, affirmed on October 4. 

Several policies targeting ethnic minorities are still not interconnected, troubling local authorities during implementation, some members of the National Assembly’s Ethnic Affairs Council said.

The Party, State and the Vietnam Fatherland Front will always closely work with religions in general and Catholic followers in particular in building the country prosperously and promoting the national great unity, said President of the VFF Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan. 

VOV.VN - South African Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his nation's desire to learn from Hai Phong’s experience in developing the maritime economy and building ships during his trip to the city on October 4.

The Party committees of the Central Highland province of Dak Nong and the provincial border guard force have agreed to boost cooperation in dealing with issues along border areas and in socio-economic development in the locality.

VOV.VN -Family and friends are mourning the loss of a husband, wife and their two-year-old son killed in a fire in the early morning hours of October 4 in District 12 of Ho Chi Minh City.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on October 4 to promote the efficiency of cooperation funds and programmes between ASEAN and its partners.

VOV.VN - A four-day exhibition has opened on October 4 in Quang Tri Province chronicling the historical and legal evidence proving Vietnam’s sovereignty of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.

International volunteers from Habitat for Humanity have joined the “Vietnam Big Build 2016” project to build houses for 20 poor families in Tam Nong district, northern Phu Tho province. 

A 19-century Buddhist statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes - a treasure of the Me So Pagoda in the northern province of Hung Yen’s Me So Commune, Van Giang District, was stolen on October 1.

Green trees have been mentioned in poetry, painting, music and have became a special feature of Hanoi. 

VOV.VN - The Tien Giang People’s Committee has approved a five-year action plan (2011-2016) of French non-governmental organization, the Pousse-Pousse Association, which is allowed to operate in the province by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

VOV.VN - Heavy rains occurred in Ho Chi Minh City from 2:00 to 10:00 a.m on Monday, October 3 badly affected local lives.