The first-ever Vietnamese Goods Week in France’s Grand Est region opened at the Carrefour hypermarket in Verdun city on October 1, marking the first time a Vietnamese trade and cultural promotion activity has been held in this borderland area, far from Paris.

Sixteen prominent textile and fashion enterprises from Ho Chi Minh City are participating in the Fashion World Tokyo (FaW Tokyo) 2025, Japan’s leading event for fashion, materials, and technology which opened on October 1, aiming to showcase their supply capabilities and explore market expansion opportunities.

A ceremony to present financial support to the teachers of the Nguyen Du Lao – Vietnamese bilingual school was held on October 1 in Vientiane, marking the fourth consecutive year that the Ho Chi Minh City chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has extended this assistance.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Greece has set up a booth at the Piraeus Taste Festival 2025, recently held in Greece, showcasing traditional Vietnamese cuisine and dried agricultural products.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam has urged universities and research institutes to speed up technology transfer and enable research teams to set up commercial enterprises to bring products to market, with the aim of creating a generation of fast-growing tech firms and, gradually, Vietnamese tech unicorns.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese chess prodigy Le Phan Hoang Quan has secured a silver medal at the World Cadet Chess Championship 2025, held in Kazakhstan from September 19–30.

VOV.VN - The Deputy Foreign Ministers of Vietnam and Bulgaria has highlighted both nations’ growing ties and agreed to beef up cooperation in new areas such as high technology, innovation, and defence-security

VOV.VN - More than half of Vietnamese businesses participating in the Vietnam National Pavilion on major global e-commerce platforms have successfully secured export orders, each worth tens of thousands of US dollars on average.

VOV.VN - The Federation of International DroneSoccer Association (FIDA) has presented the Future Generations Award to the Vietnamese team in their first appearance at the FIDA World Cup 2025, held in Jeonju, the Republic of Korea, from September 24 to 27.

To mark the 76th founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (October 1, 1949–2025), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam and President Luong Cuong have sent congratulatory messages to General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President of China Jinping.