(VOV) -A gala awards presentation dinner was held at Porchester Hall in London to announce the winners of a Vietnamese student’s photo contest.

(VOV) -Industrial zones (IZs) in central Thua Thien-Hue province employed 15,920 local workers in 2013, reported Nguyen Huu Tan, Head of the provincial IZ management board.

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai visited the Tan Rai Bauxite Complex in the Central Highlands Province of Lam Dong on February 11, where he applauded the quality of the plant's first products.

The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the 2012 results of the public administration reform index (PAR INDEX 2012), on which Danang ranked first with 87.14% while Hanoi received 82.79%.

Transport Minister Dinh La Thang and his Singaporean counterpart Lui Tuck Yew have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the transport sector.

The border gates of Chang Riec and Vac Sa in the southern province of Tay Ninh will be upgraded to national fifth-tier border urban areas by 2020.

(VOV) -A variety of young writers are expected to introduce their latest work at the 2014 Spring Book Fair at Hanoi Library on February 14–16.

(VOV) -The central province of Quang Nam officially declared an A/H5N1 avian flu outbreak on February 11.

(VOV) - The Department of Preventive Medicine on February 10 asked relevant agencies to step up their vigilance in monitoring and responding to any possible avian influenza outbreak.

(VOV) - The gift market is heating up as Valentine’s Day draws near. Shops are marketing innovative products for those in love. 

(VOV) - The US has provided Vietnam US$800,000 in aid to reduce threats to public health from avian and pandemic influenza (API). 

Vietnam is forecast to continue being battered by extreme weather this year after a range of unusual weather phenomena appeared recently.

The Japanese Government will provide US$455,612 in non-refundable aid to the second phase of a maternal and infant healthcare project in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

(VOV) - The Government has announced an ambitious plan to slash 100,000 jobs over the next six years until 2020, in an effort to make State organisations more cost-effective.

(VOV) - According to Vietnam’s leading online recruitment agency the labour market has been busier since the Lunar New Year (Tet), but has still not experienced sudden changes like in 2012.

(VOV) -Tremors were felt in Thuan Chau District after an earthquake measuring just 2.5 on the Richter scale hit the northern mountainous province of Son La at 6:37 pm on February 9.

The central city of Hoi An will promote the use of bicycles this year as part of a plan to build an eco-friendly in Vietnam.

(VOV) - Overseas Vietnamese in Belgium and Luxembourg on February 9 gathered at the Vietnamese Embassy in prayers for peace and happiness of the people in the coming year.

(VOV) - Tran Ngoc Phuc—the founder of the small to medium-sized Japan-based enterprise Metran that specialises in High Frequency Oscillation (HFO) - says his greatest happiness comes from returning home and contributing to Vietnam.

Experts and scientists from many Vietnamese universities and government agencies participated in a workshop on the environment and the management of river basin in Bangkok from February 8-9.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Manh Hung visited the Vietnamese community living in the southern Lao province of Champassak on February 9.

The Vietnam Association for the Conservation of Nature and the Environment has recently recognised 20 mango trees grown at the national historic site of Tu Quang pagoda in the central coastal province of Phu Yen as national heritage trees.

A measles epidemic is likely to spread due to the humid and cold weather and an increasing demand for travel at the beginning of the year, head of the Health Ministry’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, Tran Dac Phu, has warned.

(VOV) - National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has affirmed the national radio broadcaster’s crucial role in linking the Party, State, and people during a Lunar New Year visit on February 8.

(VOV) - Vietnamese embassies in the Republic of Belarus, Slovakia, the Netherlands, and Cambodia held Lunar New Year (Tet) get-togethers for their respective overseas Vietnamese communities.

(VOV) - Vietnamese residents living in the Lao province of Xieng Khouang held a get-together in capital Vientiane on February 7 celebrating Vietnam’s traditional lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Tens of thousands of the Cao Dai Church followers and dignitaries on February 7 gathered in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh to join an annual grand ritual dedicated to the Duc Chi Ton (Supreme Being) who they believe to be the ancestor of the world.

(VOV) -The US magazine ArchDaily has presented its 2014 “Building of the Year” Award to architect Vo Trong Nghia and his Binh Thanh House design in HCM City.

The capital city of Hanoi has set to increase the number of its trade villages to 1,500 from now to 2015 in a bid to create jobs for at least half of its rural workers.

(VOV) - Police in Thanh Hoa province’s Tinh Gia district have arrested a local woman attempting to traffic and trade a large volume of explosives.