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.

VietNamNet Bridge – At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung reported that about 200 tons of fish died in Hanoi’s West Lake in the past three days.

 A series of trucks have been dumping waste mud into the Red River in Hanoi.

The northern region’s paddy fields in autumn sunlight look peaceful and beautiful, jogging sweet childhood memories.

  Information and technology - software jobs- offer the most competitive salaries in Viet Nam, according to VietnamWorks's Salary Insights report.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc yesterday asked Hanoi People’s Committee to handle the West Lake mass fish death incident, of which fish losses have already reached 60 tonnes and counting.

Nine globally endangered species have been discovered at Phong Dien Nature Reserve, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, through camera traps.  

 Over 10 tonnes of fish have died in the West Lake in Hanoi due to lack of oxygen according to local authorities.

 Leading vocalists of Vietnam's chamber music scene will present a concert featuring international and Vietnamese compositions at the HCM City Opera House on October 5.

 The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has given 21 manufacturing facilities in District 12 until year-end to move out of the city.

 Big cities like Hanoi and HCM City and localities home to many industrial production activities such as Viet Tri still face high air pollution.

Vietnam is facing great environmental challenges due to a widespread disregard of the law, poor-quality environmental impact assessments, and overlapping regulations in the laws on Environmental Protection and Investment.

 Aeronautical technologies have been researched and applied widely by many sectors in Vietnam, heard a workshop in Hanoi on September 30.

Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA) has urged mobile phone users to contact service providers when they notice abnormal account activity or suspect value-added services being activated automatically.

 The fifth International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics (Analytica Vietnam 2017) will be held in Hanoi from March 29-31, 2017.

 The Vietnam Web Summit (VWS) 2016 will kick off in HCM City on October 22.

  Intel will not close its Vietnam unit, said Pham An Duong, Marketing Director at Intel Vietnam, on September 28. 

  Unitel, the brand name of Viettel in Laos, reached US$1 billion in cumulative revenue in seven years of operation in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Water Drainage Company Ltd. is cleaning the lakes of Hoang Cau and Van Chuong with Redoxy-3C technology from Germany.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The recent incident at Song Bung Hydropower Plant has alerted Vietnam to reconsider the construction of so many hydroelectric plants, which have been compared to “timebombs”.