General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong was awarded the 50-year Party membership badge at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 29. 

 Residents in Vinh Cuu and Dinh Quan districts, the southern province of Dong Nai, have proposed local authority construct additional 20 kilometres of electric fence to prevent wild elephants from wandering into residential areas.

Vietnam’s football potential has yet to be fully tapped and the freshly-concluded 2018 AFC U23 Championship where Vietnam claimed the silver medal is just a beginning, said U23 Vietnam’s head coach Park Hang Seo. 

 Mechanisms should be rolled out promptly in order to prevent corrupt acts, said Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh at a conference in Hanoi on January 29. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted Viet Nam’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. 

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has complimented Vietnam’s U23 football team on their excellent performance and historical achievements at the continental sport event. 

 VietNamNet Bridge - On 26/1/2018, CMC Telecom was selected by International Finance Magazine - the prestigious British magazine in the field of finance and banking – as the best enterprise telecom service company in Vietnam 2017.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc at MPI’s year-end summation conference last week again requested the General Statistics Office (GSO) to re-calculate GDP. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Unable to ‘play’ on a level playing field, domestic games developers and distributors are finding it difficult to grow.

 Vietnam currency seen stable this year, HSBC strikes settlement deal with Payoo, Competitiveness of Hanoi SMEs poor, Zurich Airport keen on investing in Long Thanh

Research by a group of lecturers from the HCM City University of Education has found signs of self-destructive behavior in 84 percent of secondary school students in the city.

Historically, the mostly publicly financed health care system in Vietnam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases

 Two Steering Committees meet in Hanoi, NA Chairwoman pays working visit to Military Zone 2 High Command, Ba Ria-Vung Tau sets up cooperation with Italian region, Exchange held to mark successful Vietnam-Laos friendship year

 Exhibition praises victory of 1968 Tet Offensive, Police start investigation into death of taxi passenger, Four killed, injured in quarry explosion in Đắk Nông, VNĐ2 billion sugarcane area destroyed in Đắk Lắk

 French photographer Réhahn, based in Hoi An Ancient Town in the central province of Quang Nam, is among nine nominees for Trophées des Francais de l’étranger.

 Top Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam won the first round of the first Viet Nam Tennis Federation Pro Tour 1 which opened in Vung Tau City on January 28.

 The National Assembly (NA) has been working to fulfill assigned tasks for 2018, Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said in an interview with Vietnam News Agency.

 Pham Duc Huy – "silent hero" of Vietnam’s U23

 Nguyen Quang Hai - Excellent midfielder of U-23 Vietnam

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception for Mr. Tsutomu Takebe, Special Advisor to the Japan-Viet Nam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance on January 29 in Ha Noi.