After big wins at the Screen Actors Guild awards - and earlier this month at the Golden Globes - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri appears to be front runner for best picture when this year's Oscar nominations

 A Japanese soldier has been killed in an avalanche in central Japan that may have been triggered by a volcanic eruption.

VietNamNet Bridge - The oil & gas sector once had the highest export turnover of any industry, but that ended in 2009.

 The HCM Stock Exchange is switched off for maintenance today following its crash during the At-the-Closing (ATC) period on Monday.

  The Government needs to enlarge the scale of the market and lure more State-owned enterprises to list shares through speeding up their equitisation, according to Luu Trung Thai, Vice Chairman of the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

 Commercial banks are optimistic about the foreign exchange market in 2018, noting that the market would be stable with the Vietnamese dong devaluing slightly by some 0.5-1 percentage points to VND22,710 to VND22,950.

Viet Nam’s shrimp industry will become a key economic sector with sustainable development that is environmentally friendly and can withstand the challenges of climate change.

 Viet Nam’s cashew industry has targeted 300,000 tonnes of cashew exports at a value of US$3 billion this year, a year-on-year reduction of 50,000 tonnes in volume and $500 million in value.

 The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.

 It was back to the bold and beautiful at Sunday's Screen Actors Guild awards, following the almost universal black dress code deployed at the recent Golden Globes.

 The US has approved controversial tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels.

 South Korea is banning the use of anonymous bank accounts to make cryptocurrency transactions.

 VietNamNet Bridge – So Village’s communal house on the western outskirts of Hanoi will provide a platform to showcase the traditional customs of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year on February 10.

Seven teams of students from five universities in Vietnam will participate at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia (SMEA) 2018 – Make the Future, which will take place at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore from March 8-11.

Organisers collected VNĐ600 million (US$27,000) from a charity golf tournament organised at the Golf King’s Island in Dong Mo, Son Tay Town, in Hanoi last week. 

 More than 30 paintings, photos and sculptures by 11 Dutch artists were displayed at an exhibition hosted by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Hanoi.

The list of SOEs put under control of the ‘super committee’, shows that the government wants control in some key business fields – energy, natural resources, infrastructure and agricultural land.

 The revision to the Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, officials have said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s winter is said to be incomplete without savouring banh khuc or xoi khuc.

Vietnam is the focus of India’s Act East policy, affirmed Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Parvathaneni Harish in an interview with VNA on threshold of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit.