General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong has stated that the fight against corruption should be continuously sped up with higher determination, perseverance and efficiency this year. 

 The People’s Procuracy of HCM City proposed a 30-year imprisonment sentence to ex-Chairman of the Vietnam Construction Bank Board of Directors Pham Cong Danh during a second-phase trial in Ho Chi Minh City on January 22. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Government workers and civil servants in HCM City asked for higher salaries in a meeting held by the city People’s Council on January 21 to listen to their voters’ opinions.

 As 2018 Lunar New Year is coming, kumquat gardens in the Red River Delta province off Nam Dinh are filled with distinctive aroma of kumquat and people are rushing to get the best looking kumquat trees.

 Artists from different backgrounds joined forces with a Parisienne digital group to create La Joie, an augmented reality, or AR, exhibition in which technology and tradition combine to offer viewers new sensory experience.

 A cultural event which took place in Hanoi has portrayed the signature traditions of the Lunar New Year in Vietnam, bringing Tet closer to children in the capital city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A court in the southernmost province of Ca Mau has sentenced Huu Be, 57, from Thoi Binh District to seven years in prison and fined VND13 million (US$600) on Monday for child sex abuse.

 The Shah Alam High Court of Selangor State of Malaysia on January 22 resumed the hearing for Doan Thi Huong, one of the two suspects in the murder of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) national Kim Chol in February 2017.

 Domestic and world’s leading experts in footwear will gather in Ho Chi Minh City next month for their summit.

 Tran Van Thao, the first Vietnamese to win a World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title, will face Richard Rosales of the Philippines in the 52kg category on January 26 in Thailand.

 Vietnamese people use fish as the main dish in their meals. Fish and its processing has been being an indispensable part of these locals’ cuisine as they usually say “rice and fish like mom and her child”.

 HCM City keen on hi-tech agriculture, Steel Corporation committed to finish 2017’s leftover projects, KIDO Food remains ice cream market leader, VN-China trade likely to reach $100 billion

VietNamNet Bridge - After 30 years of doi moi (renovation), the Vietnamese income per capita has increased to nearly $2,400 but that doesn’t satisfy many economists.

Nguyen Huu Thai Hoa, chair of the board of directors of IBosses Program in Vietnam, at the launch ceremony of the Vietnamese version of the book ‘IBosses – The Rise of Gen Y entrepreneurs’ commented that Vietnam is in ‘startup chaos’.

A virtual laboratory to carry out chemical experiments and a project on parenting soft skills are two of the first prizes awarded at the ‘Investment Project’ competition organized for Hanoi students.

VietNamNet Bridge - There are numerous plant varieties and technologies from which to choose, but it is difficult to develop greenery that bears the city’s typical characteristics.

Less than a month after ‘Bai Choi’ singing was added to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the first individual live show has been organised in Binh Dinh to honour this unique folklore style of singing.

 At the end of the year when rice ripens in terraced fields and the weather turn cold, people of the Pako, Ta Oi, and Co Tu ethnic groups celebrate the Aza New Year Festival to thank their genies for blessing them with a bumper crop.

Lacking of rental houses and social security related problems weight heavily on the shoulders of local authorities. However, when the friendly rentals are founded, security and safety have been improved remarkably.

 Trade turnover in 2017 reached a record level and continued growth into the future seems almost certain.