A total of 38 students from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have won the SMBC Global Foundation scholarships funded by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), a leading commercial bank in Japan and worldwide.

Of the recipients, five students participating in the programme will receive scholarships worth 1,500 USD each and the remainder will get scholarships worth 200 USD each.


They are outstanding students from Hanoi National University, HCM City National University, Hanoi University, HCM City Economics University and Foreign Trade University.

The award ceremony took place on May 14 in Hanoi and is slated for May 25 in HCM City .

Established on April 1994 by SMBC Capital Markets. Inc, a SMBC’s subsidiary, the fund has granted many scholarships to students from 25 schools in Asia, including China , Indonesia , Malaysia , Singapore , Thailand , the Philippines and Vietnam . This is the fourth consecutive year the programme is carried out in Vietnam./.