A seminar discussing the development of public spaces with the harmonisation of traditional and modern values in Hanoi was held by the municipal Department of Culture and Sports on October 4.

VOV.VN - Bjorn Andersson, regional director of Asia and the Pacific of UNFPA, applauded Vietnamese efforts on October 4 in addressing the preference for sons and gender-biased sex selection over the last 15 years.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang, head of the Vietnamese Delegation to ASEAN, attended a series of meetings from October 1 to October 4 on the ASEAN connectivity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

VOV.VN - Molex, the world’s leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, has unveiled its ambitions to expand its existing manufacturing plant in Hanoi, covering on a total production area of up to 16,000 square metres.

VOV.VN - A series of floods and landslides in the aftermath of Typhoon Noru have caused thousands of households throughout the central region to become isolated.

Deputy head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for External Relations Truong Quang Hoai Nam had meetings with Egyptian parliamentarians and representatives from political parties, during his visit to Egypt from September 27-29.

VOV.VN - Italian media outlet La Repubblica recently published an article outlining Vietnam as a new tiger in Asia based on the World Bank’s 7.2% GDP growth forecast for the country this year.

As Typhoon Noru has abated into a tropical depression, Vietnam Airlines has resumed flights to/from some airports in the central region.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that relevant ministries and central provinces give the highest priority to responding to Super Typhoon Noru, which has just entered the East Sea and is now moving at a very fast speed.

The Vietnamese border provinces of Cao Bang, Lang Son, Ha Giang and Quang Ninh, and the Education Department of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, held a video conference on education and vocational training cooperation on September 23.