Ten outstanding young individuals were given the Vietnam Golden Globe Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee in Hanoi on December 29.

The central city of Da Nang started construction of a tunnel at the junction of Dien Bien Phu, Nguyen Tri Phuong and Le Do streets, one of the busiest roundabouts in the city, on December 29.

VOV.VN - Streets in Ho Chi Minh City have been beautifully decorated with colorful lights and flowers to welcome the New Year 2017. 

Lacking clear barriers, cars and motorbikes jammed 'exclusive' bus lanes during a rush hour trial run of the US$55 million rapid transit system.

Vietnam has started phasing out from receiving international support for its immunization program.

VietUnion, a subsidiary of Saigon Invest Group (SGI), has launched an integrated ticket selling system which allows customers to buy different kinds of tickets at convenience stores.

Digital content provider VTC Intecom reported improved competitiveness thanks to better quality service, security and scalability with the deployment of Microsoft Azure.

Vietnamese businesses are aware of the regional ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) single-market initiative, but few understand its commitments, according to a survey.

Hundreds of houses in the central Vietnamese city of Danang were found to have been built without the proper permits, resulting in troubles and headaches for their owners.

The northern mountainous province of Bac Kan has devised a range of measures to improve the lives of locals from ethnic minority groups, thus narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor as well as between geographic areas.

VOV.VN -  The Vietnam Peace Committee held its year-end meeting on December 29 to review its performance in 2016 and outline tasks for 2017. 

VOV.VN - Over 30 years of renewal, Vietnam’s revolutionary press has made great contributions to communicating Party guidelines and State policies and law and reflecting people’s aspirations. 

Many serious environmental pollution cases were uncovered and strictly handled in 2016, the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) said on December 29.

The largest ever number of rare Java pangolin (Manis javanica), 54 individuals, have been released into the wild recently by the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) in coordination with Cuc Phuong National Park and Hanoi Wildlife Rescue Centre.

VOV.VN - Twenty brand new buses are being put into service on routes throughout Hanoi, say Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) officials.

Ho Chi Minh City residents should try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day to improve health and fight diseases related to lack of exercise, a nutrition expert has advised.

The government of HCMC is planning to build a tunnel under Ton Duc Thang Street stretching from Ba Son Shipyard area to a bridge connecting districts 1 and 4.

The company reportedly directed coal sludge into the Thi Vai River in Dong Nai Province.

The duo, by accident, found an elusive debtor on a Hanoi street after nearly a decade. They attacked him.

A Hanoi appeal court on December 27 upheld the verdict of a former banker, who was sentenced in October 2015 to 30 years imprisonment for her main role in a corruption scandal that caused multi million-dollar losses to a state-owned bank.

Climate change and abnormal weather conditions have strongly impacted people’s health, triggering disease outbreaks including recurrence of new epidemics, said the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) has provided commodities and necessities worth US$70,000 to help victims who were affected by a devastating flood in September in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

As many as 15,489 smuggling cases have been uncovered this year, the General Department of Customs told a press conference in Hanoi on December 28. 

The Southern economic hub is rushing to realise its traffic infrastructure plan in which nearly 700km of expressway is expected to be built over the next five years.

Over 3,000 people with disabilities and their families in the central province of Quang Tri have benefited from a German-funded rehabilitation project over the last three years.

The year 2016 has seen many religious events held across the country, attracting large numbers of followers and visitors, and religious organisations.

 The Government has targeted over 90 percent of nationwide population covered with health insurance by 2020. 

VOV.VN - A large number of experts gathered in Hanoi at a seminar on December 28 to discuss the formation of a foundation to encourage Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to give back to the national development.

A conference was organised in Ban Lung city, the Cambodian province of Ratanakiri on December 26 to review security and social order in shared border areas of six provinces of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Police in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City have arrested two women and a man for allegedly trafficking women to China.