Many banks have reportedly gained high profit last year, helped by strong credit growth and initial gains in the settlement of bad debt.

 Viet Nam achieved its highest ever cashew exports in a year in 2017 with shipments worth US$3.52 billion.

 Samsung Electronics expects to deliver record profits for the last three months of 2017, but the estimate missed analyst expectations.

 The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed the government to hasten efforts aimed at improving the business environment in 2018.

 The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has just published a paper announcing the initiation of a sunset review of the anti-dumping measures applicable to utility scale wind towers imported from Viet Nam.

 Saigon Heat has added two players, Maxie Esho and Michael Williams, to strengthen its line-up for the ongoing ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).

 Police here have busted a weapons-trading ring involving electric guns, scimitars and bayonets, which were being sold online in Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Veteran investors could lose billions of dollars because of rumors. 

 North Korea is to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, taking place in South Korea in February, 

Nature has particularly bounteous in the southern province of Hau Giang, providing water loaded with minerals that is home to the most delicious thac lac fish compared with other regions in the country. 

 After a busy 2017, foreign investors are gearing up for another eventful year on Vietnam’s fast-growing stock markets.

 From textile and garment to mobile phones, Vietnam's 2017 export-import picture was bright with a record $425 billion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Scrap warehouses are posing a threat to crowded residential areas in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

 Skilled grafter Le Duc Giap from Thanh Oai district, Hanoi can earn hundreds of millions of Vietnam dong during the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) by selling pomelo trees which he has engrafted with up to 10 different varieties of fruit.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) is recruiting Vietnamese heritage players for the 2018 season.

 Throughout the long coastline of Vietnam, cuttlefishes are everywhere. Each region has their special type of cuttlefishin different shapes or sizes. As a coastal province, Ha Long is no exception.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said on January 8 that incidents such as the mass poisoning of fish off the coast of Vietnam in 2016 should never happen again. “It was a painful lesson,” he said. 

 About 31.4 trillion VND (1.38 billion USD) was used in building new-style rural areas in 2017, heard a conference held by the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development on January 8. 

 The court began to question defendants about their specific roles in wrongdoings accused of “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management at the trial that opened on January 8. 

 Vietnam’s football teams had an outstanding 2017 with six national teams qualifying for Asian championships and this will prove to be their achievement as well as challenge in 2018.

 Vietnam took second spot out of nine Asian countries and territories surveyed for the 2017 Prudential Relationship Index, which was released in HCM City last weekend.

 The National Assembly (NA)’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children held a conference in Hanoi on January 8 on the building and implementation of policies on youth development.

 Foreign retail businesses who came and introduced modern trade methods, technology together with professional management skills, have posed a big challenge to Vietnamese retailers.    

 Vietnam welcomes and supports measures related to the Korean Peninsula to foster dialogue and maintain peace and stability in the region, stated Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

 Effective defence cooperation between Vietnam and Japan, including the ties between the two ground forces, has contributed importantly to the bilateral friendship.