High consumption demand during the Lunar New Year holiday and the strong tourism recovery fuelled retail sales of consumer goods and services in January.

Vietnam’s new-age carrier Vietjet has signed a strategic partnership agreement with OpenAirlines, a global leader in airline fuel efficiency solutions leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), continuing the airline’s journey of flight operations optimisation.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has assessed the risk of a measles outbreak in Vietnam as very high and recommended large-scale vaccination campaigns in provinces and cities with high and very high risk, as well as in areas currently experiencing measles case clusters.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son has signed Decision No. 245/QD-TTg approving a master plan on the development and application of atomic energy to 2030, with a vision to 2050.

The upcoming 2025 Xuan Hong (Red Spring) Festival, Vietnam’s largest annual blood donation drive, is set to collect 8,000 blood units to support hospitals in Hanoi and across the country.

Vietnam’s pepper industry is set for an eventful year in 2025 as global production continues to decline while demand from key markets fluctuates, creating both challenges and opportunities for exporters.

Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc highlighted the need for truly effective, proactive and specific price management in 2025 while chairing a meeting of the Steering Committee for Price Management on February 6.

The Deputy Minister suggested that both nations focus on implementing the exchange of delegations, especially high-level ones, and maintaining existing cooperation mechanisms, particularly in training programmes and defence industry collaboration.

The Vietnamese delegation has actively engaged in various discussions and shared its achievements at the second Asia-Pacific Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM), held in Bangkok, Thailand, from February 4-6.

The 23rd Vietnam Poetry Day will bring together poets born during the resistance wars against the US imperialists, after 1975, during the “Doi moi” (renewal) process until 2000, and after 2000.