Students receive scholarships from Sapporo Vietnam. — VNS Photo

Sapporo Vietnam on Wednesday awarded its “Tiep Buoc Thanh Cong” scholarships worth a total of VND95 million (US$4,300) to nine outstanding university students in HCM City.

The students have been getting the scholarships, which are renewed each year provided they maintain high grades, since they were first-year students.

Many of the beneficiaries have also won national and international honours.

Nguyen Huy Quoc, a fourth year student at the Foreign Trade University, is one of 30 students globally to be invited by Beiersdorf to take part in the International Internship Challenge in Hamburg, Germany.

Kieu Quang Tuan, a fourth year student at the HCM University of Technology, won the third prize in the Big Bang competition in which over than 200 universities took part. He has got a full scholarship from the Ministry of Education to study in Russia. — VNS