Right after Vietnam obtained an impressive victory against Qatar to advance to the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc congratulated coach Park Hang-seo and the Vietnamese team.

 Eleven remaining member nations to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) have agreed to sign the deal at an official ceremony slated for March.

 The An Giang provincial People’s Court on January 23 sent four men to jail for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 2 of Article 88 of the 2009 Penal Code. 

 Group hugs among strangers, excitement, even tear bursts are captured among Hanoi fans as the Vietnamese team secures a berth in the final of the AFC U23 Championship after beating Qatar.

 The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to add two return flights between Hanoi and HCM City and Changzhou city, Jiangsu province, China, on January 27 when U23 Vietnam play a final match against Uzbekistan.

 Vietnam’s U23 team is shaking the media in Asia in particular and the world in general as the team beat Qatar to enter the final of the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship in Changzhou, China.

 Vietnam will play against Uzbekistan in the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship being held in Changzhou, China.

Le Dinh Hong, of An Duong District in the northern Hai Phong City, is taking care of peach trees in his garden in Dang Cuong Village. There are about three weeks left before Tet (Lunar New Year).

 President Tran Dai Quang told visiting Russian Minister of Defence Sergey Shoyu on January 23 that cooperation in defence and military technology continues playing an important role in Vietnam-Russia relations.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) and people’s committees of Mekong Delta provinces of Vinh Long and Tra Vinh agreed Monday to cancel the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project on National Highway No.53.

 The high-profile trial of Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC), and his accomplices, ended on January 22 after two weeks of sitting.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People worldwide now can enjoy Vietnamese music on YouTube by Phuong Nam Film, one of the HCM City’s leading music, film producers and distributors.

VietNamNet Bridge - The oil & gas sector once had the highest export turnover of any industry, but that ended in 2009.

 The HCM Stock Exchange is switched off for maintenance today following its crash during the At-the-Closing (ATC) period on Monday.

  The Government needs to enlarge the scale of the market and lure more State-owned enterprises to list shares through speeding up their equitisation, according to Luu Trung Thai, Vice Chairman of the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.

 Commercial banks are optimistic about the foreign exchange market in 2018, noting that the market would be stable with the Vietnamese dong devaluing slightly by some 0.5-1 percentage points to VND22,710 to VND22,950.

Viet Nam’s shrimp industry will become a key economic sector with sustainable development that is environmentally friendly and can withstand the challenges of climate change.

 Viet Nam’s cashew industry has targeted 300,000 tonnes of cashew exports at a value of US$3 billion this year, a year-on-year reduction of 50,000 tonnes in volume and $500 million in value.

 The HCM City Tax Department plans to continue to collect taxes from online businesses that use Facebook and other social media sites.

 VietNamNet Bridge – So Village’s communal house on the western outskirts of Hanoi will provide a platform to showcase the traditional customs of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year on February 10.