New Year wishes were sent to residents and soldiers in the Truong Sa (Spratly) island district via a live television programme organised by Khanh Hoa province authorities on January 24.

VOV.VN - First runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2014 Huyen My joined charitable activities at the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics on January 24 before the Lunar New Year festival (TET). She presented gifts to the disadvantaged children under medical treatment there.

VOV.VN - German cruise ship Ms. Mein Schiff 1 with nearly 1,500 passengers on board has docked at Tan Cang Port in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

VOV.VN - Dong Ba Market in Central Hue City has been known for its ancient and bustling features. Now it is busier as traditional Lunar New Year festival or Tet is drawing near.

Police in India have arrested three Vietnamese citizens for allegedly smuggling three kilograms of cocaine into the country.

Just follow these farmers to their salt fields to perceive their hard work.

Like many other craft villages around the country, a village making kitchen god statues in Thua Thien-Hue province struggles to survive in the market economy. But one family has set aside economic rules to preserve the craft.

As many as 698 households in eight hamlets in Van Lang commune of Dong Hy district, northern Thai Nguyen province, have got access to the national grid after a project was completed on January 24.

The police in the northern border province of Lang Son on January 23 arrested a drug dealer and seized 87 heroin bricks (weighing about 350 grams each) in a big crackdown on drug crime.

Repair work on the Asia-America Gateway (AAG)  and Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine fiber optic cable lines has been  basically completed, said a representative from the Ministry of Information and Communications. 

The volume of goods and passenger transported in Hanoi have strongly increased in January as the country’s biggest festival in the year - the Lunar New Year (Tet) – is approaching.

Ho Chi Minh City People’s High Court on January 24 upheld the lower court’s 30-year imprisonment sentence given to former Chairman of the Vietnam Construction Bank (VNCB) Board of Directors Pham Cong Danh.

VOV.VN - President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFF CC) Nguyen Thien Nhan paid a visit on January 24 to Most Venerable Thich Pho Tue, Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), and Buddhist dignitaries at Vien Minh Pagoda in Hanoi.

Hospitals and health centres in HCM City’s districts and wards last year attracted more patients, reducing overcrowding at central and city-level hospitals, according to the city’s Department of Health.

A new set of tools that emphasise employee-employer dialogue, neutral evaluations and sustainable compliance with labour regulations are needed to resolve workplace conflicts in Vietnam, experts said at recent workshop held in HCM City.

A commemoration ceremony was held at the Hung Kings Temple in HCM City, offering the traditional Tet dish of Banh Tet to the legendary founders of the nation on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.

A Hanoi delegation led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung visited former Party, State and National Assembly leaders on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

Overseas Vietnamese worldwide are celebrating the 2017 Lunar New Year with traditional New Year treats and art performances. 

VOV.VN - Busy holiday travel continued January 23 at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi as travellers pile home for the long TET holiday.

Happy New Year, the Year of the Rooster,' he said in Vietnamese.

Most bus tickets in the central city of Danang for peak days during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year), which begins on January 26, have been sold out. This has forced some people into trying alternative ways of getting home.

Commonly believed stereotypes about the Vietnamese are simply not true... in most cases.

People across the country will enjoy warm weather during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, falling between January 26 and February 1.

A Vietnam Airlines pilot now earns US$5,100 a month after many of them threatened to quit.

Microsoft and Vietnet Information Technology and Communication Center (Vietnet-ICT) have announced a “Minecraft” coding tutorial for students and educators, created especially for the third-annual Hour of Code, a campaign to broaden global participation in computer science.

Eight community-based tourism models were honoured at the recent ASEAN tourism forum (ATF) in Singapore.

VOV.VN - Thousands of migrant workers return home for Tet (Lunar New Year Festival), causing heavy traffic jams at gateways from Ho Chi Minh City, especially highway 13.

From his Christmas vacation with his family in the Silicon Valley, Pham Duc Trung Kien, a visually impaired investor known as “the bridge builder between the US and Vietnam,” shared his thoughts with VIR regarding Vietnamese education.

Loose quality management and high prices prevent many citizens from accessing safe food as Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches.

Wealthy Vietnamese now have a new gift option during Tet holiday – rooster replicas made entirely of bronze, valued at anywhere up to one thousand dollars.