VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested the Ministry of Transport to urgently permit foreign airlines to bring home Vietnamese citizens left stranded overseas.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese peacekeepers in South Sudan have made careful preparations for Vietnam’s traditional lunar New Year (Tet) celebration.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health confirmed a further 13,694 new COVID-19 cases nationwide on January 30, marking a drop of 1,444 cases from one day earlier, and bringing the national tally since the start of the pandemic up to 2.2 million.

VOV.VN - Many residents of Hanoi have enjoyed sleepless nights as they take part in the tradition of boiling Chung cake, a type of square glutinous rice cake, on local pavements as they prepare for the Lunar New Year festival.

Workers and students in Ho Chi Minh City have been offered free rides home this Tet (Lunar New Year), a gesture of support with the hope that everyone can be reunited with their families.

VOV.VN - Streets throughout Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been beautifully decorated with festive lights, flowers, and ornaments in a bid to welcome in the fast-approaching Lunar New Year festival (Tet).

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet), National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visited and presented Tet gifts to poor and near-poor households and social policy beneficiaries in Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen districts in the central province of Nghe An.

VOV.VN - The arrival of navy vessels carrying Lunar New Year (Tet) commodities signals early Tet celebrations on Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung has said that the socio-economic recovery programme set out by the Party and State is reachable if social welfare and safety of people are ensured.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on January 29 that it had issued a decision to suspend work of four officials of its Consular Department to serve the investigation into a case of taking bribes while licensing the firms that conducted repatriation flights for Vietnamese people.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Ukraine on January 28 held a get-together for the Vietnamese community in the European couuntry on the threshold of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed 15,150 new coronavirus infections in 61 cities and provinces across the country during the past 24 hours, an increase of 221 cases compared to the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

VOV.VN - During the first day of the national Lunar New Year holiday (Tet), a total of 26 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, killing 13 and injuring 15 others, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.

VOV.VN - A memorial service was solemnly held at Tu Hieu pagoda in Thua Thien - Hue province for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh who passed away on January 22 at the age of 96.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on January 28 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to deal with the complex challenges of climate change and environmental pollution.

VOV.VN - A further 14,929 fresh COVID-19 infections were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on January 28 across 62 cities and provinces nationwide, marking a decline of 790 from the previous day.

VOV.VN - Few passengers can be seen heading back to their hometowns to gather alongside their families as Tet draws near, resulting in deserted scenes occurring at major bus stations across the capital, a contrast to the bustling scenes recorded in previous years.

VOV.VN - Major roads across the capital have been left clogged with traffic as vehicles crawl along at a snail's pace on the final working days before the Lunar New Year festival, known locally as Tet.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine has been keeping a close watch on the current situation and maintaining attention to the Vietnamese community here, Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thach said on January 27.

In 2021, due COVID-19 pandemic, people had to switch to online learning, working and entertainment, and the demand for the Internet also increased, thus creating an opportunity to develop the telecommunications industry, but also posing many challenges for mobile broadband subscription providers.

As many as 91 new species were discovered in Vietnam in 2020, including 85 endemic species, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in its report issued on January 26.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 27 for Chairman of Japan’s Health Sciences Education Co. Ltd in Vietnam Dr. Kusumi Mari.

VOV.VN - As many as 15,727 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in all 63 cities and provinces across the country during the past 24 hours, a fall of 227 cases compared to the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

VOV.VN - Vietnam will organise a rapid vaccination campaign this spring running from January 29 to February 28, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on January 27.

VOV.VN - British Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward and representatives from USAID Vietnam and CITES have called on people to say no to tiger bone glue and tiger products in the Year of the Tiger 2022.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassies in Russia and Japan have held numerous activities to help Overseas Vietnamese ease their home nostalgia as the Lunar New Year holiday known as Tet in Vietnamese is drawing near.

Half of students and teachers are expected to have sufficient access to online classes by 2025 under a project on the application of information-technology and digital transformation in education and training approved recently.

VOV.VN - A passenger train en route from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi crashed into a lorry carrying timber on January 27, leaving two cars off tracks.

VOV.VN - The first locally acquired Omicron case in Hanoi capital has recovered from the virus, the Hanoi Department of Health announced on January 26 evening.

Vietnam supports contents of the global biodiversity framework and suggested the need for further research to complete its indicators, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said at a working session in Hanoi on January 26.