Tours to the United Arab Emirates have been flying off the shelves after the national men’s football team earned a place at the AFC Asian Cup 2019 quarterfinals, scheduled to take place in Dubai on January 24.

 Choi Young-sook, a Korean woman in her 60s with a doctorate degree in audiology, has been dedicating her time to students with disabilities in Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong over the past eight years.

 The occupancy rate of operational industrial parks (IPs) across the nation hit 73 percent in 2018, the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Department of Economic Zone Management has said.

Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan held talks with President of the Australian Senate Scott Ryan after an official welcome ceremony in Hanoi on January 21.

 Vietnam will face Japan in the first quarterfinal match of the ongoing AFC Asian Cup 2019, which will take place at the Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on January 24 at 8pm (Vietnam time).

 A lorry, plated 29C-71953, crashed into a delegation from the Kim Luong communal chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the northern province of Hai Duong on January 21, leaving seven dead at the site. 

 Buoi Market on Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Hanoi, in the days nearing the Tet holiday, becomes more crowded and busier with all kinds of flowers and ornamental plants from everywhere to be sold. 

While the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) supports waste-to-electricity project with huge investment capital of VND2 trillion, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) views it as problematic.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s national football team have earned total prize money of around VND12 billion (US$522,000) for their excellent performance at the ongoing AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

 Corona Casino Phu Quoc, which opened late last week, is the first casino in Viet Nam to allow Vietnamese to gamble.

 The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports has officially announced a hotline to receive reports from residents and localities about activities related to cultural festivals as well as difficulties in organising and managing festivals in Hanoi.

The Hanoi People’s Court on January 21 opened a first-instance trial for four former executives of Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical JSC (BSR) on the charges of “abusing position and power to appropriate assets”.

 The World Economic Forum (WEF) will expand cooperation with Vietnam in 2019, which will be momentum for the two sides to strengthen their partnership in the time ahead, according to Justin Wood, head of the WEF’s Regional Agenda – Asia Pacific. 

 Hanoi’s Culture Center has become an increasingly popular destination for domestic and foreign tourists. The center was inaugurated in 2015 as part of the city’s efforts to promote its historic Old Quarter.

A Hanoi-based group keen on preserving the ancient values of communal houses will host its annual gathering featuring various traditional customs celebrating the Lunar New Year Festival on January 26&27 in the capital.

Vietnamese beauties Tieu Vy and H’Hen Nie have been named among the Top 50 of Miss Grand Slam as announced by Global Beauties.

 Vietnamese football fans are being offered the chance to travel to the AFC Asian Cup 2019 with prices ranging between VND28 million and VND30 million.

“Ruou can” is an indispensible rice wine at important events such as the New Year celebration of ethnic people in the Central Highlands.

 Is rising investment from Chinese enterprises the reason for an increase in land rents at industrial parks in Vietnam?

 The northern region has continued facing the cold weather with rains with temperatures forecasted to fall to below eight degrees centigrade in many mountainous localities.