Ascott Vietnam last year donated a total of VNĐ 650 million (US$28,800) to help  improve the education and living conditions of more than 2,300 underprivileged children and disadvantaged people in the provinces of Nam Định, Phú Thọ, Hòa Bình, Bình Phước, Long An and HCM City.

Vietjet has awarded VNĐ100 million (nearly US$4,400) to Nguyễn Hồng Quang, a passenger on flight VJ378 flying from HCM City to Chu Lai (Quảng Nam Province) on February 13.

Lotte Mart has launched its third Beauty Expo with the theme “Forever Beauty” with discounts from beauty brands, programmes that enable customers to experience beauty care services and attractive promotions.

In continuation of its efforts to bring happiness to customers at the beginning of a new year lunar, HDBank launched the Bách niên phát tài (100 years of prosperity) programme, which offers extra interest of up to 0.7 percentage points to depositors.

Việt Nam is the most exciting country to watch in the digital revolution era, Winfield Wong, country head, wholesale banking, HSBC Việt Nam, told the media from his bank’s Singapore office this week.

The Asian metasearch engine for insurance and financial products, GoBear, has appointed Bảo Nguyễn as its new Việt Nam country director with immediate effect.

Viettel Group has brought eight products it has developed in education, mobile finance, network security, tourism, customer-protection solutions and others to the world’s biggest annual mobile event, the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, from February 26 to March 1.

The fourth quarter of 2017 closed with 332.4 million domain name registrations across top-level domains (TLDs), said a recent report of Verisign, a US-based domain name and internet security provider.