On the afternoon of October 9th, Hue Central Hospital, in coordination with Hue City Geriatrics Association, held the opening ceremony of the Third Hue Ancient Capital Geriatrics Scientific Conference 2026, themed ‘Disease Management in the Elderly: Early Prevention - Comprehensive Treatment’. The conference attracted nearly 300 delegates, including experts, scientists, doctors and healthcare professionals from hospitals, medical facilities and medical training institutions across the country.

On the afternoon of October 8, the city’s Sub-department of Irrigation and Climate Change said that the automated monitoring network across the city is proving effective in supplying information for natural disaster warnings to relevant agencies, local authorities, and people.

On October 4, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) held a ceremony to mark the National Innovation Day 2026 under the theme ‘Innovation - A Driving Force for Society’s Development’, underscoring the need to make innovation a driving force for development across all sectors and fields and throughout society.

There was a time when the terel flute was woven into the everyday life of the Pa Hy community. Its melodies rang out during festivals, across upland fields, and on moonlit nights when young lovers met. Over time, however, fewer and fewer people have retained the knowledge of how to make and play this distinctive instrument.

On the morning of October 1st, wards, communes and educational institutions across Hue City launched Lifelong Learning Week 2026 under the theme ‘Learning for Real, Practising for Real, Mastering Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence to Build a Learning Society and Promote Lifelong Learning’.

On the morning of October 1, Hue Department of Health, in coordination with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), held a training session on using the ‘Doctor for Every Home’ system to support the implementation of telemedicine services across the city.

On the afternoon of September 26, at Le Duc Anh Secondary School (Chan May - Lang Co Commune), the For Highland and Island Youth Fund and the ‘For Beloved Hoang Sa - Truong Sa’ Club, in coordination with Hue City Department of Education and Training, held a ceremony to award scholarships for the 2026 - 2027 academic year to ethnic minority students and students in coastal and island areas across the city.

On September 25 and 26, Hue Fellow-Countrymen Association in Ho Chi Minh City, together with its partners, inspected and handed over 4 renovated school restroom facilities, awarded 80 scholarships, and donated 35 computers to schools across Hue City. The program provided support valued at VND 850 million.

Autumn has already descended upon the land, yet crape myrtles continue to bloom brilliantly across Hue’s parks and streets. This is the flower chosen to be engraved on Cao Dinh (the Great Urn), the first and largest of Cuu Dinh (the Nine Dynastic Urns) in the Imperial City.

On the morning of September 18th, Hue City Department of Science and Technology held a council meeting to evaluate and consider commissioning a state-funded science and technology task on developing a real-time system to control and simulate flood propagation and provide smart warnings, serving disaster management and response across the city.