Vietnamese airlines have announced adjustments to their flight schedules on October 14 as the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) directed the closure of Vinh and Tho Xuan airports from 12:00-21:00 on the day due to Storm Nangka – the seventh to enter the East Sea this year.

VOV.VN - The leading 15 entrants from the northern region who will progress to the grand final of Miss Vietnam 2020 have been announced, with the conclusion of the pageant scheduled to get underway in late November in Ho Chi Minh City.

Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Sugiyama has been announced as an art advisor and stage director at the Vietnam Youth Theatre, the first time the theatre has a foreign art advisor and director as its official member.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said on October 13 that it had lost VND10.75 trillion (US$463.7 million) in the first nine months of this year.

The Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) held a forum on women starting up businesses with One Commune, One Product (OCOP) products in Hanoi on October 13.

The domestic agriculture sector is in need of solutions to optimise capital and science and technology, thus raising productivity, quality, and value in service of both domestic and foreign markets, the fifth national farmers’ forum held in Hanoi on October 13 heard.

Members of the Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) sold a total of 677,739 motorcycles in Q3, a year-on-year fall of 18.49%.

The occupancy rate at operational industrial parks in the major industrial localities in the south averaged 84.5% during January-September, according to a report from CBRE Vietnam.

Sales of automobiles in September increased 32% against the previous month to reach 27,252 units, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) reported on October 10.

VOV.VN - Northern and north-central Vietnam is braced for the arrival of storm Nangka, the seventh storm this year, with the weather pattern heading for northern regions following its evolution from a tropical depression on the afternoon of October 12, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.