Streets leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Saigon Railway Station, Mien Dong and Mien Tay coach stations have been overloaded with traffic jam prolonging in HCMC.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship China 2018 recorded a historic high in television viewership ratings and social media engagement in Vietnam as the nation took on Uzbekistan in the momentous final on January 27.

 In January 2018, Crossbow Labs has issued the PCI DSS v3.2 certificate to CMC Telecom, Vietnam’s first and unique Data Centre, for meeting the latest security requirements.

Yellow apricot trees are more expensive this year, said local traders at Van Phuc flower market in Ha Dong district, Hanoi.

Vietnamese designer Audrey Nguyen has been invited to present her latest designs at the prestigious New York Fashion Week, scheduled for February 17 in the US.

Thuy Dung, Mau Thuy, Diem My and Will 365 have made a video clip of themselves in Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), sending best wishes to Vietnamese people on the occasion of Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

 Two locations in Vietnam – Sapa and Hoi An towns – have been named among the top ten places to visit in Southeast Asia in 2018, as selected by the readers of the UK-based travel website Rough Guides.

There has been an increase in the number of foreign tourists arriving that has coincided with the Lunar New Year in Vietnam.

The lack of a common voice among managers, the changes in business strategies, and the weak role on the board of directors are some of the reasons foreign shareholders have left Vietnamese banks.

 Domestic commercial banks on Thursday continued devaluing the US dollar against the Vietnamese dong for the second consecutive session, despite a rise of the greenback in the global market.

 Credit is forecast to accelerate from the end of the first quarter this year to maintain the same growth rate as 2017.

 Trade promotion in Viet Nam is facing many difficulties as many importers, such as the US, China, Japan and the European Union, were now protecting their own farm production.

 State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) made a net cash injection of VND13 trillion (US$572.9 million) into the economy in the past week to support the liquidity of commercial banks.

 Saigon Heat failed to get past Chong Son Kung Fu for the second time this season after losing 79-94 in their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) match on Wednesday in China.

A Spring Festival exhibition featuring the unique culture of the people in the southern province of Binh Phuoc will be held at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, from February 24 – 25. 

 As many as 17 out of 19 ministries and ministry-level agencies have provided online public services at levels three and four, while 58 out of 63 cities and provinces have supplied 13,830 public services on the Internet.

Vietnam’s futsal team lost to Uzbekistan 1-3 in the quarter-finals of the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship in Taipei, China on February 8.

Vietnamese shares declined on February 8 as investors showed little confidence amid the current volatility of the global markets and the sharp fall in crude prices.

 Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say.

 Major Asian markets suffered sharp losses on Friday, following another day of steep falls on Wall Street.