The Ministry of Information and Communications has summoned an American teacher who is now living in Hanoi for a bad-taste joke on Facebook about Vietnam’s late hero General Vo Nguyen Giap.

Events in Hanoi & HCM City on January 29-February 4 

 Vietjet Air CEO, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, has apologised for the use of models wearing bikinis on the plane welcoming the local U23 football team home yesterday.

 Many Vietnamese people are seeking to buy sets of multi-national bank notes as the Lunar New Year lucky money for their friends and relatives.

 Cyber security will continue to be a ’hot topic’ this year, demanding the attention of technology experts.

 Creating a market to connect demand and supply of technological products will help develop the technology industry, according to experts.

 It remains impossible for Viet Nam’s securities market to get promoted from a frontier market to an emerging market this year, officials say.

Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is seeking to make its initial public offering (IPO) in mid-2018, with an expected chartered capital of US$630 million. 

 Some weak banks that are undergoing restructuring might get out of the worse thanks to unprecedented support measures under a new law, experts have said.

 Dairy giant Vinamilk will continue to expand abroad, especially in emerging market like Laos and Myanmar, this year.

 The implementation of tariff reduction to zero per cent under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) from January 1, is an obsession with the Vietnamese sugar industry.

 The consumer price index (CPI) in January rose by 0.51 per cent over the previous month and 2.65 per cent over the same month last year.

 The number of firms using e-invoice has increased significantly in recent years due to its convenience and cost effectiveness.

 A series of cultural and sports activities will be featured during the fifth Japan – Viet Nam Festival, which will kick off today at the September 23 Park in HCM City’s District 1.

The life of Cuban people is reflected truthfully and colourfully through the lens of Italian photographer Fulvio Bugani. 

 The HCM City Fire and Rescue Police Department and the Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation will install 11,000 more fire hydrants by 2025 after being instructed to do so by the People’s Committee at a conference on fire hydrant management on Thursday.

HCM City’s Science and Technology Department plans to launch a Science and Technology Development Fund while seeking to focus State science and technology organisations on activities relevant to the market and wean them off public funds in 2018.

Just a short time after thaituancoin, a cryptocurrency trading floor, shut down, another appeared calling for people’s contributions. 

 The courage and passion of Vietnamese U23 players seemed to melt the snow, OSEN, a news website based in the Republic of Korea commented on the final between Vietnam and Uzbekistan in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Vietnam’s significant achievements in 2017 in an article published in a special issue titled “The Year Ahead 2018: Hope Against Rage” of the international media organisation Project Syndicate.