Việt Nam News

Vietjet is offering three golden days until Thursday with 1.5 million tickets priced from zero đồng to mark International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8.

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.

Since launching its first flight from HCM City in 2014, Vietjet has continually added more frequency and has introduced new routes from Hà Nội to Changi, serving the travel demands of people and promoting regional trade and integration.

DHL Express has appointed Shoeib Reza Choudhury as the new general director of DHL-VNPT Express Ltd.

Kiên Long Commercial Joint Stock Bank’s (Kienlongbank) board of directors (BOD) has appointed TrầnTuấn Anh the new general director.

Up to 33 per cent of Vietnamese buyers are open to considering an electric vehicle (EV) as their next car, demonstrating the country’s strong potential to speed up the electrification of automobiles.

Saigon Co.op said its retail stores served three times the normal number of shoppers during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines has launched a promotional programme – “Buy one get one return ticket” – for 22 domestic and seven international flights.

ZaloPay e-wallet, developed by VNG Corportion, aims to open about 1,000 new points of sale in 2018, according to Phan Thanh Thảo, business development director of Zalo Pay.

Phú Nhuận Jewelry Joint Stock Company won the award for Asia’s Best Report on the Sustainable Development Goals at the 2017 Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (ASRA) ceremony in Singapore last week.