Several enterprises in the south, mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and the provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong, are accelerating worker recruitment, preparing to up production after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday that falls in mid-February 2018.

Positive developments were seen in Vietnam’s labour market in the third quarter of this year, the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs reported on December 26.

Many young people in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have decided to do something different this Christmas as they dedicate their time to bringing the festive atmosphere to the less fortunate.

 A five-year “HIV/AIDS Prevention, Control Project” has helped reduce HIV transmission and raised awareness to better prevent the disease in the northeast mountainous province of Cao Bang.

VOV.VN - A counter-terrorism exercise was held at Cam Ranh International Airport on December 26. It was co-organized by the National Civil Aviation Security Committee, the National Defence, Public Security and Transport ministries and Khanh Hoa province’s People's Committee.  

 The Asia-Pacific Getaway (APG) Submarine cable from Vietnam to Singapore has crashed, negatively affecting internet capacity of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and other network operators.

The Hanoi People’s Court will open proceedings in the trial of Dinh La Thang and his accomplices accused of wrongdoings at PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) on January 8, 2018. 

The National Assembly’s Council of Ethnic Affairs has proposed issuing a new set of criteria for delimitation of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in service of bettering the making of policies for the regions.

Few living people witnessed the carnage and destruction of the US bombing of Hanoi in December 1972. But those who were there remember it clearly.

The unemployment rate among university graduates and those holding higher degrees in the third quarter of 2017 was 4.51%, compared to 3.63% in the previous three months, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

A ceremony was held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in Hanoi on December 26 to present certificates honouring the service and contributions of 672 fallen soldiers to their family members.

As many as 13.52 million people have joined compulsory social insurance by December 2017, up more than 1 million people over 2016, Vietnam Social Security (VSS) reported at a conference in Hanoi on December 26. 

Eighty-five young music talents nationwide were granted 2017 Toyota Scholarships in Hanoi on December 26.

The Committee for Information and Education of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Vietnam Journalists’ Association held a national press conference in HCM City on Dec. 26 to review 2017’s accomplishments and launch tasks for 2018.

VOV.VN - On December 26 the relevant authorities of Bac Lieu Province were directed to transfer those who had taken refuge from Typhoon Tembin back to their homes as the danger has passed and they are now free to resume their normal lives and production.

Communication works, forums and talks on gender equality will be held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho under a project to support gender equality in ethnic minority areas during 2018-2025.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on December 26 opened a first-instance trial on a terrorism plot targeting Tan Son Nhat International Airport involving 16 suspects.

Evacuated people in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang returned their home on December 26 as typhoon Tembin weakened into a low tropical pressure.

Three out of water supply projects using loans from the World Bank (WB) have been put into operation in Hanoi.

As many as 2,884 communes or 32.3% of communes nationwide were recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of November 2017, surpassing the target of at least 31%. 

The National Cancer Hospital (K Hospital) is working on a project to set up the first centre in the country to use proton radiation therapy to treat cancer.

A delegation of Hanoi officials led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai laid wreaths at the B52 victory monument at Hanoi’s Kham Thien street on December 26 to commemorate those who lost their lives during the US airstrike in December 1972.

Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia have visited Vietnamese fishermen who have been temporarily detained on the country’s islands for illegal fishing. 

After 13 years of operation, the Steering Committee for Northwestern Region (SCNR) has fulfilled its tasks, contributing to boosting socio-economic growth and ensuring defence-security in the region, said Nguyen Van Binh, head of the committee at a meeting on December 25.

VOV.VN - After a day being evacuated to safer areas, on the morning of December 26 people in the southernmost province of Ca Mau came back to their home and resumed normal life.

The '4 in 1' machine can use heat in the air to produce water to cool and reduce the humidity in the atmosphere.

Typhoon Tembin has weakened into a tropical low pressure, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

The Ministry of Transport has requested the contractor of the Hanoi’s Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line to commit to ensuring their behind schedule proposal.

VOV.VN - 45 years have passed, but memories of the 12-day battle against  the US carpet bombing in Hanoi are still fresh in the mind of Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Phiet, who together with his comrades shot down B52 bombers.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale occurred at about 3pm on December 25 in the Vietnam-Laos border area, according to Nguyen Thai Son, head of the Dien Bien Phu Seismic Observation Station.