The National Assembly and the Supreme People’s Court should guide implementation of new laws and the Government should provide more funding for courts at all levels to use IT in their daily working to improve their efficiency.

 Viet Nam finished at the bottom of the CFA Four National Tournament that concluded in China’s Guangdong Province on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than one-third of Vietnamese households shop at convenience stores or minimarts 10 times a year, according to Kantar Worldpanel. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Samsung, Oppo and Apple topped the list of the best selling smartphones in the Vietnamese market in 2017.

 Vietnam Railway Corporation (VNR) has plans to add new train cars to gradually replace all aging ones by 2021.

Smart environment management systems have been applied in the central city of Da Nang, considered by many expats and locals alike to be the most livable city in Vietnam. 

The non-State sector took the lead in contributing to the State budget (accounting for 46%) in 2017, according to the General Statistics Office. 

 Vietnam is the world’s second largest coffee exporter, behind only Brazil. However its coffee export value is much lower than other nations’ as the country only exports raw coffee. 

 Some 72 per cent of Vietnamese women have joined the labour force, higher than the average world percentage (42 per cent), and ranking only behind Cambodia (81 per cent).

 FLC Thanh Hoa won at the preliminary second stage of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday.

 The Chinese Consulate in Viet Nam on January 24 announced a specialised desk for receiving visa applications of Vietnamese citizens to China starting January 24 to 26.

 People living in HCM City are suffering from photochemical smog, a kind of air pollution that’s harmful to human health.

 The Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) decided on Tuesday to set up the Viet Nam Certificate Authority and Digital Transaction Club (VCDC).

 Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) has registered to sell 7.6 million shares of Vietnam Airlines Corporation, which is listed as HVN on the stock market.

 The Ministry of Construction said on January 23 that  its adjusted construction master plan for the Ho Chi Minh City Zone to 2030 with a vision to 2050 had been approved by the Government last month.

The Hanoi People’s Court on January 24 opened the trial for Trinh Xuan Thanh and his accomplices accused of “asset embezzlement” at PetroVietnam Power Land JSC (PVP Land). 

 Local law enforcement forces of the southernmost province of Ca Mau recently uncovered the illegal transportation of 114 pangolins, the Department of Forest Rangers said on January 23.

APPF-26 focused discussions on different aspects of the theme “Parliamentary Partnership for Peace, Innovation and Sustainable Development”, reflected by its efforts to strive for gender equality and promote the implementation of the SDGs.

 Car buyers have withdrawn their deposits due to prices being higher than expected and tougher rules making imports more difficult.

 Vietnam had around 505,000 operational enterprises though the number officially registered was one million as of early last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).