Low temperature along with drizzle and high humidity caused snowfall in many mountainous areas in the north such as O Quy Ho (Lao Cai), Cao Ma (Ha Giang), and Mau Son (Lang Son).

Researchers at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) have recommended improvements in slaughtering and hygiene to limit cross-contamination with non-typhoidal salmonella, .

The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department and various Vietnamese travel firms are participating in the International Travel and Tourism Trade Show (SATTE 2018) that opened in India’s capital of New Delhi on January 31.

 Relevant agencies need to better promote trade and remove barriers so as to earn 40 billion USD from agro-forestry-fishery exports this year, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam.

 A charity running competition entitled ‘Run Against Cancer’, aiming to support cancer patients will be held on Sunday at Thong Nhat Park.  

The Indika Tet (Lunar New Year) Market will be held from February 3-4 at Indika Saigon at 43 Nguyen Van Giai Street in HCM City’s District 1.

The Bike Shop will host the Tri An Lake Sunday Ride Tour from 6.30am to 3.30pm on Sunday, February 4.

 FLC Thanh Hoa lost to Suwon Samsung Bluewings 1-5 in the AFC Champions League play-offs in South Korea on January 30.

 V.League 1 newcomers Nam Dinh have signed Trinidadian forward Neil Benjamin ahead of the upcoming football season.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of migrant workers in HCM City are worried about transport ticket shortages as the biggest festival of the year approaches, 

 Viet Nam has sent a team of three athletes to participate in the eighth Asian Indoor Athletics Championship, which will kick off at Aftab-e Enqhelab Stadium in Tehran, Iran, today.

 Top Vietnamese chess player Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the eighth match at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 in England on January 30.

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 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project that would build a national database of waste resources, helping authorised agencies better control the discharge of waste nationwide.

 The Hanoi City People’s Court handed down imprisonment sentences ranging from 6 to 8 years to three defendants on the charge of spreading anti-State propaganda during a trial on January 31. 

 The Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) on January 31 officially launched the Sao Khue Awards 2018 – the most prestigious award in the Vietnamese software and IT services industry over the past 15 years. 

 The PetroVietnam Power Corporation (PV Power) sold all 468.37 million shares it offered at the initial public offering (IPO) at the Hanoi Stock Exchange on January 31, raising nearly 7 trillion VND (308 million USD).

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc appreciated the United Nations’ assistance for Vietnam in implementing Millennium Development Goals while receiving UN Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Gerda Verburg on January 31.

Over 2,160 cattle were killed or starved to death as of January 30 as a result of the cold spell that was raging across mountainous areas of the north, central and Central Highlands regions.

Courts at all levels handled over 438,625 out of the total 491,384 cases received, or 89.3 percent, in 2017, the Supreme People’s Court said at a press conference on January 31 in Hanoi.