Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed the East Sea and Vietnam's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes be taught at all levels.

(VOV) - The capital city has decided to commute penalty and grant amnesty to 230 inmates on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

(VOV) - A senior Vietnamese health official has eased Hanoians’ worries about a recent A/H1N1 flu outbreak, saying it is seasonal flu and not as dangerous as expected.

(VOV) - More than 700 overseas Vietnamese from 30 countries and territories met in Ho Chi Minh City on January 21, celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet).

(VOV) - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour Tran Thanh Hai has affirmed the solidarity, friendship and cooperation between Vietnamese workers as well as trade union and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korean (DPRK) people and labourers in particular. 

(VOV) -Vietnam has been cited as one of the top countries with the lowest unemployment rates in the world, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Vietnam has seen considerable achievements in ensuring sustainable environment over the past years, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The Preventive Medicine Centre of the southern province of Binh Phuoc has instructed the Bu Dang district health centre to sterilise the building and surrounding area where the first case of A/H5N1 was found this year.

The Tet holiday, the most important event of Vietnam, is more than a week away, but the festive atmosphere has already reached the Vietnamese community in the North African country of Egypt. 

(VOV) - Hanoi hosted a January 21 cultural and educational exchange programme between Vietnam and Sweden, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties and launching the latest Vietnam-Sweden Friendship Association chapter.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung received a delegation of the Episcopal Council of the Catholic Church of Vietnam in Hanoi on January 21 in the lead up to the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).

(VOV) -A World Bank report released on January 21 argues Vietnam will need to address sanitation service shortcomings in order to sustain economic growth, improve public health, and minimise adverse environmental impacts.

(VOV) - Vietnam is striving to improve upon its strategic human resource management to more effectively tap into and utilise the knowledge and experience of Overseas Vietnamese (OV).

(VOV) -As many as 400 overseas Vietnamese living and studying in the US got together in New York on January 19 to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

A delegation from the Hanoi Archdiocese led by its Archbishop Nguyen Van Nhon paid a pre-Tet visit to the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation on January 20.

(VOV) - The second Kilo-class submarine has left the St. Petersburg-based Admiralty Verfi Shipyard’s port en route to a naval base in Vietnam.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s health officials on January 20 confirmed a first H5N1 avian flu death in the southern province of Binh Phuoc – the first in 2014.

(VOV) - Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) representatives on January 20 worked with Binh Duong province on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to carry out JICA-funded projects in the locality. 

(VOV) -  Vietnam needs approximately US$8.3 billion to provide adequate drainage services for estimated 36 million people in urban areas by 2025, said Le Duy Hung, senior urban management expert. 

(VOV) -Nearly 100 passengers, many of them foreigners, managed to escape a burning high-speed boat on the Saigon River on January 20.

(VOV) -A large warehouse storing goods for the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival caught fire in Hanoi on January 20.

(VOV) - Hundreds of leading atomic energy experts from Asia are gathering in Hanoi on January 20-22 for an annual conference to examine global nuclear power trends.

(VOV) -Hundreds of Vietnamese nationals living in the Republic of Korea got together at the Vietnamese Embassy headquarters in Seoul on January 19 to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

(VOV) - A first instance court in the northern border province of Quang Ninh on January 20 handed down death sentences on 30 defendants involved in four transnational drug trafficking rings.

Vietnamese Ambassador Doan Xuan Hung has praised the Vietnamese Youth and Student Association in Japan (VYSA) for their contributions to promoting exchanges and cooperation between Vietnam and Japan over the past time.

(VOV) -A traditional get-together was held at the Vietnam Embassy in Australia on January 19 in the lead up to the up coming Lunar New Year of Horse (Tet).

(VOV) - Seventy students from Vietnam recently joined 450 students from 13 Asian countries in Singapore for an exchange to improve environmental protection.

Two major transport projects linking the southern province of Dong Nai with the country’s southern economic hubs were opened to the public on January 19. 

(VOV) - Construction on the first nuclear power plant will be delayed for a couple of years instead of the 2014 schedule to ensure optimum safety and security, Science and Technology Minister Nguyen Quan has said.

(VOV) -Police in the north-western border province of Son La on January 19 caught red handed two drug smugglers attempting to traffic drugs across the border into Vietnam.