Many people have flocked to Hanoi's Hang Ma Street to buy offerings for the coming Kitchen Gods' Day.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Former Southeast Asian Games billiard champion Do Hoang Quan, who was recently diagnosed with rectum cancer, is in need of help for treatment.

 Vietnam, immersed in the positive socio-economic achievements of 2017, started off 2018 on a good omen.

The State Treasury deposited more than VND238.49 trillion (US$10.5 billion) in five commercial banks by the end of last year, up 3.3 times against January.

 VietNamNet Bridge – About 100 paintings, sculptures and ceramic artworks are on display at an exhibition to welcome the Year of the Dog at Hang Da Galleria in Hanoi.

The Government has issued a resolution to form a committee for managing State capital at enterprises.

Audits by the State have found serious mismanagement of urban land worth more than 8.3 trillion VND (368.8 million USD) at seven localities between 2013 and 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – American sailor Rimas Meleshyus was rescued by Vietnamese fishermen in Da Nang on Sunday.

Deputy PM lauds southwest steering committee’s contributions, HCM City willing to maintain collaboration with Cambodian localities, Hanoi hopes to further ties with Mozambique

A month-long spring festival will be held at the coastal entertainment and hospitality complex CocoBay in Da Nang from February 12 to March 11, featuring Tet customs, folk games and traditional cuisine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than three thousand attempted smugglings worth millions of dollars in goods and counterfeit items were stopped by anti-smuggling forces in Quang Tri Province in 2017,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians have suffered frequent traffic jams over the last week and the situation is predicted to worsen in the days near Tet (Lunar New Year).

 Saigon Heat beat Hong Kong Eastern 118-115 at their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) match on home turf at the CIS Arena in HCM City on Sunday.

Fulbright University estimates that Vietnam’s informal economic sector makes up 25-30 percent of total GDP and has 57 percent of total number of workers.

 The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat has decided to dismiss Le Phuoc Thanh from the position of Secretary of the Quang Nam provincial Party Committee for the 2010-2015 tenure. 

 Vietnam came from behind to beat hosts Chinese Taipei 3-1 for a berth in the quarter-finals of the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship on February 5.

Children in HCMC are suffering from an overload in school curriculum, members of the Children’s Council of HCMC said at the council’s second meeting themed “Our city” on February 4.

 Malaysia will consider receiving more skilled Vietnamese labourers and create favourable legal procedures for workers from the country, said Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Anifah Aman.

 Mountain peaks in Nam Khat, Cao Pha, La Pan Tan and Mo De commune, Mu Cang Chai district, the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have been covered with ice for the third time within only one month.

 Vietnam’s population is estimated to reach 94.7 million at the end of 2018, according to the General Office for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP) under the Health Ministry.