After declining in the first two quarters, the VN-Index showed signs of recovery in the first half of the third quarter.

Representatives of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Khon Kaen and the Vietnamese Association of Udon Thani province of Thailand on September 2 offered incense in memory of late President Ho Chi Minh at a memorial site named after him in Udon Thani.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang and representatives of Montreuil city authorities laid a wreath at President Ho Chi Minh’s Monument at Montreau park on September 1, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of National Day (September 2).

Vietjet on September 1 resumed the direct service between Vietnam's southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City and Thailand’s northern largest city Chiang Mai.

VOV.VN - Hordes of Ho Chi Minh City residents converged along the banks of the Saigon River on September 2 morning to watch two large-sized hot air balloons carry 1n 1,800-square metre national flag into the sky above the Thu Thiem tunnel.

VOV.VN - Seventy-seven years ago on September 2, 1945, at Ba Dinh Square, President Ho Chi Minh solemnly read the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Representatives of the Party, National Assembly, State, Government, and Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on September 1 at his mausoleum in Hanoi ahead of the 77th National Day on September 2.

VOV.VN - A flag-raising ceremony was held on September 1 in Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi to commemorate the 77th anniversary of National Day, an event which first took place on September 2, 1945.

VOV.VN - General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong offered incense on September 1 in memory of President Ho Chi Minh at House 67 in the Ho Chi Minh relic site, where the late President passed away on September 2, 1969.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with the cadres who once directly served and protected late President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi on August 31.