VOV.VN - The Quadrantids meteor shower will streak across the skies of Vietnam on January 4, according to astronomers from the Vietnam Astronomy and Cosmology Association (VACA).

Buildings in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with more than 30 percent of funding sourced from the state budget capital, non-budget state capital and loans from State-invested businesses must use 100 percent non-baked building materials.

VOV.VN - People from different localities have flocked to Hanoi after New Year holidays causing heavy traffic congestion. 

Once they're completed, traffic in the city might just become slightly more bearable.

VOV.VN - Two bridges over Thai Binh River in the northern port city of Hai Phong opened to traffic on the first day of 2018 after eight months of construction.

The usage of online public services at the district level in HCM City has gained significant progress, according to the HCM City’s Information and Communications Department.

Cyber attacks including the rise of ransomware cost Vietnamese users VND12.3 trillion or more than US$542.8 million last year, according to a report from top online security firm BKAV.

VOV.VN - The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced on January 2 a tropical depression in the East Sea is likely to strengthen into storm. 

Hanoi will build Hoang Cau-Voi Phuc Road, which is to be “the most expensive road on the planet,” carrying a price tag of VND7.78 trillion (US$342.59 million) for 2,274 metres and breaking the previous record held by Hoang Cau-Lang Ha Road.

As of mid-December, 81.06 million people had social, health, and unemployment insurance. 

Groups of young people in Ho Chi Minh City are putting all their efforts to bring needy individuals and children meals and joys particularly for Tet, or Vietnam’s Lunar New Year.

A blaze destroyed four houses at 12:30pm on January 1 in Lam Dong Province’s Lac Duong Town.

HCM City has targeted testing at least 17,045 additional people for tuberculosis (TB), including 7,840 new patients with pulmonary TB, next year, according to the city’s TB Prevention and Control Programme.

Accidents on the road killed 67 and injured 74 others during the three-day New Year holiday from December 30, 2017 to January 1, 2018, according to the Office of the Public Security Ministry. 

The Vietnamese Embassy in collaboration with the Vietnamese People Community in Angola organised a get-together in Luanda city on December 31 to celebrate New Year 2018.

Farmers and food producers in the Mekong Delta are busy preparing speciality fruits and foods to meet burgeoning demand for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, which falls on February 16 this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development expects the mass production of the first made-in-Vietnam vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease will start in the second quarter of 2018.

Ho Chi Minh City honoured ten outstanding young citizens of 2017, who excel in their fields and exemplify the best attributes of the city’s young people, in a ceremony on January 1.

VOV.VN - Many people in the capital city of Hanoi spent the night enjoying New Year celebrations, but there were still those hard at work on New Year’s Eve to earn their living.

Only 59 architectural works across the country have been recognised as achieving green standards of domestic and international organisations, including 45 works in the south, 11 in the north and three in the central region.

All Vietnamese citizens now can participate in spreading knowledge conveniently and effectively thanks to the “Digital Vietnamese knowledge system” project which was launched in Hanoi on January 1 morning. 

VOV.VN - 2018 is ushered in with festivals of music and light, bright fireworks displays, and people’s optimism for the development of the nation.

VOV.VN - President of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Nguyen The Ky has sent New Year greetings to listeners and overseas Vietnamese.

After Honda, Nissan and Toyota, Subaru – another automobile maker from Japan will recall 24 Legacy and Outback car models to replace their front seat airbags from now to December 5, 2018.

A forest of trees covering several hundred hectares at the foot of Hoanh Son mountain in central Ha Tinh province has come back to life, thanks to the efforts of one man.

Some 6.6 million people have received better medical treatment as a result of a project which rotates doctors from high-level to lower-level hospitals, implemented in Vietnam since 2008.

The VIetnam ICT Press Club recently announced the top 10 ICT events in 2017. This is the result voted for by more than 50 journalists in the information technology sector, from some 40 media agencies nationwide.

The end of the year is a busy time for the blacksmiths of Phuc Sen village in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang. 

As many as 29 people were killed while 32 others were injured in 34 road accidents on December 30, the first day of the three-day 2018 Calendar New Year holiday, said the Ministry of Public Security.

The National Power Transmission Corporation under the Electricity of Vietnam (EVNNPT) is implementing a project applying geographic information system (GIS) in the management of power transmission, which is expected to be put into operation in 2018.