A 17-day workshop that ended on January 6 taught safe driving skills and encouraged university students to promote traffic safety among their peers and in the community.

 New faculties will be opened at universities during the 2018-2019 academic year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s new catalogue on training programmes in higher education.

 The property market will continue to grow this year, the HCM City Real Estate Association (HoREA) predicts.

 The Hanoi People’s Court will open proceedings in the trial of Trinh Xuan Thanh and his accomplices accused of wrongdoings at PetroVietnam and its subsidiary PVC on January 8. 

 Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has approved a plan to develop Vietnam’s maritime industry and trade to 2025, with a vision to 2035.

 The Vietnam Embassy in Indonesia is working with local authorities to send home 71 Vietnamese fishermen, who were captured for violating Indonesia’s waters, within January.

 Vietnam’s commercial banks reported solid results for 2017 with the total after-tax profit estimated to grow 44.5 percent from the previous year, according to an independent report of the National Financial Supervisory Commission.

 As Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday approaches, firecracker smuggling is again "hot" in the border areas. Several tonnes have already been seized by customs authorities as they head across the border into Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - According to CafeF, 51 Vietnamese have stock assets of VND1 trillion and more. 

 A recent survey conducted by Vietnam Report revealed that finance and banking stocks would be the ones to watch out for in 2018 as a number of reputable financial institutions (FIs) schedule to hold their initial public offering (IPO) next year.

 In such a village in the central coastal province of Phu Yen the beauty of apricot blossoms, one of the typical flowers of Vietnam in Tet holiday is attracting visitors.

 State-owned commercial banks are growing concerned over the critically low capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of around 9%, which also hit the minimum required CAR for the Vietnamese banking system.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet, Petrolimex, VP Bank and Vincom Real were the five ‘blockbusters’ that significantly increased the capitalization of the stock market.

 The enthusiasm and passion for business found in much of the local youth could make Vietnam a future incubator for startups. Is this enough for the country to build up its own Silicon Valley?

 Residents in several apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City are complaining about the ban on keeping pets at their apartments.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was defeated in the semi-final of the Hong Kong F6 Futures tennis tournament yesterday. 

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh hosted a reception for UK Foreign Office Minister for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field in Hanoi on January 5, where they commended active developments of the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership. 

 People living around Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake are complaining about too many entertainment programmes being held there.

 Last week, Vietnam exported 2 tons of star apples to the US for the first time. This marked a positive growth of Vietnam’s fruit sector in expanding its export market.

 The government has just proposed major measures to facilitate socioeconomic development in 2018, including the implementation of three strategic breakthroughs and facilitating the country’s progress in Industry 4.0.