VOV.VN - Many streets around the capital city of Hanoi have been colourfully decorated with flower displays and decorative signage to welcome the Lunar New Year Festival.

Coal power pollution could increase CO2 emissions in Vietnam by 20 times and doom global efforts to curb warming.

Droves of families are escaping the usual rigmarole for a more exotic Lunar New Year.

Transport officials from Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to push forward with a plan to build a railway between Ho Chi Minh City and Bavet, home to a special economic zone and a casino kingdom.

A US sailor who was stranded on his damaged vessel for more than a month at sea has arrived safely back on dry land in central Vietnam.

New swans brought to Hanoi’s iconic Sword Lake on February 5 were removed the same night after some scholars said the image did not suit the lake’s history with turtles.

Nguyen Vu Cao, board chairman of Hanoi-based property firm Van Khang Phat, said his firm is expected to award its best manager a car worth VND3 billion (US$130,000) as a Lunar New Year bonus.

From China Town to a Cambodian market and Japanese street, Saigon is a melting pot when it comes to food.

VOV.VN - A wide variety of colourful flowers blooming brightly in Sa Dec flower village in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap have been attracting a crowds of visitors as the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) draws near. 

Vietnam’s top taxi firm Vinasun is taking the Vietnamese branch of the Malaysia-based ride-haling firm Grab to court over “unhealthy competition”.