The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) received nearly VND96 billion (US$4.2 million) raised from 40 organisations, individuals, businesses and sponsors at home and abroad to support underprivileged children during the 11th Spring for Children programme in Hanoi on January 21.

VOV.VN - General Motors Vietnam (GM Vietnam) has presented Chevrolet scholarships to 50 students living in poverty with excellent academic records from 14 schools in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh Market area houses the oldest and most famous tea store in the city, opened in the early 20th century.

Orange trees, which are planted in Van Chan district of the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, have been the main source of income for the locals.

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.

 The Vietnam Competition Authority (VCA), under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said it would supervise the slowing down of older iPhones taking into account the interest of Vietnamese customers.

The Ho Chi Minh University of Technology under the Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) was presented with an institutional ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) quality certificate on January 22.

The latest recipients of the prestigious ASEAN New Zealand Scholarships provided by the New Zealand government—the 28 finest Vietnamese students—are heading to New Zealand to start their postgraduate studies in February.

Visitors to the Temple of Literature now understand more about the vestiges of Vietnamese history thanks to a system of introductory panels in Vietnamese, French and English languages.

Cambodian Ambassador to Vietnam Prak Nguon Hong has proposed that Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Nguyen continue receiving more Cambodian students and expanding fields of training for them.

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region gathered to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) at a celebration held by the Vietnamese Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau on January 22.

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.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc lauded journalists for having helped create public trust and rally forces to build a constructive and service-oriented government. 

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) has presented certificates of merit and “For peace, friendship among nations” insignia to the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) and some of its members in recognition of their contributions to the normalisation and development of the Vietnam-US relations.

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

The jury on January 22 imposed strict penalties on Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of PetroVietnam (PVN) Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC), and his accomplices for their wrongdoings at the corporation.

VOV.VN - A fire broke out in an unfinished 28-storey building in the northern port city of Hai Phong on January 22. 

A nine month shortage of Glivec cancer medicine produced by the Novartis Pharma Service – AG Company (Switzerland) has eased for hundreds of patients following a Government move to allow hospitals to stock the pharmaceutical product using old import dossiers.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has asked district people’s committees, departments and other agencies to ensure everyone has a “warm and sufficient Lunar Tet”, which falls on February 16.

 A Belarusian aircraft with humanitarian cargo weighing a total of 42 tonnes landed at Cam Ranh Airport in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on January 21.

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han and Miss Vietnam 2016 My Linh on January 21 partook in the 10th “Red Sunday” blood donation festival at Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

Thousands of Vietnamese consumers have joined in a class-action lawsuit against Apple Inc., accusing the US tech company of intentionally slowing their iPhones without consent.

The website freedomhouse.org recently posted the Freedom in the World 2018 report, which maintained biased views and misleading assessments, despite many countries’ opposition.

Former Chairman of PetroVietnam (PVN) Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) Trinh Xuan Thanh on January 22 was sentenced to life imprisonment for his wrongdoings at the corporation.

The lives and crops of residents living near the Bo River bank in central Thua Thien-Hue province are being threatened by riverbank landslides.

The 2018 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship qualifying competition for the southern region began on January 20 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Japan's LEOC company and the Da Nang-based Dong A College have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Japanese language training, vocational skills and manpower enrollment.

Construction of a Truc Lam Zen Monastery and a tower began in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on January 21.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man visited and presented gifts to poor households and welfare policy beneficiaries in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang and city of Can Tho on January 20, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Vocational training providers should pay more attention to quality to help Vietnamese workers integrate globally and prepare for the fourth industrial revolution, experts have said.