Ho Chi Minh City’s health insurance fund recorded a surplus of VND680 billion (over US$30 million) in its balance last year.

The municipal authority of Ho Chi Minh City has taken measures to improve the city’s public passenger transportation, aiming to increase the number of bus passengers by 5% this year.

With a passion for physics, a Dong Nai-based group of students have invented an affordable robot-wheelchair, in a bid to ease the struggle disabled people have with movements and maneuverers, having been inspired by the wheelchair used by world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan presented Tet gifts to poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 17.

The Vietnamese community in China on January 16 gathered at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet), the year of the Rooster.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Embassy in Beijing hosted a get-together for the Vietnamese community in China to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year festival or Tet with dance and song performances.

VOV.VN - The buses home for the TET holidays program is designed to give students and needy individuals a safe, comfortable alternative ride home, say representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City Support Centre.

The Management Board of the Hoa Lo Prison relic site on January 17 received valuable items from the family of US war veteran Walter Eugene Wilber for the second time.

 Aquaculture farmers directly affected by natural disasters and epidemics will receive compensation ​worth up to VND60 million (US$2,600) per hectare, according to Decree No 2 issued by the Government last week.

VOV.VN - Ginger jam village in Kim Long ward, Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is at its busiest time now as the Lunar New Year festival (TET) is drawing near. 

Japanese Prime Minister’s spouse Akie Abe visited disabled children who are receiving treatment at Hanoi Rehabilitation Hospital on January 16.

A recent survey by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has shown that Vietnamese businesses are yet to tap the full potential of young workers.  

As many as 500 gifts, worth VND250 million (US$11,000) sourced from Vingroup’s Thien Tam Fund were presented to needy people and families in the northern port city of Hai Phong on January 16.

A Harvard and Greenpeace study says unless new coal plants in energy-hungry SE Asia are scrapped, more will die.

Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh have warned that human trafficking in the province is becoming increasing complex.

Staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia visited expatriate families suffering from landslides in the Cambodian province of Kandal on January 16.

The Aviation Airport Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) is collecting feedback from the local community in HCM City regarding the architectural plan of  Long Thanh International Airport’s passenger terminal from January 12 to 23, 2017.

Ho Chi Minh City has decided to promote its geographic information system (GIS), to prevent infectious diseases, said Le Hong Nga, Deputy Director of the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre.

The International Labor Organization says ensuring quality jobs for the young generation remains 'a great test for the nation.'

Indonesian authorities have arrested 32 foreigners, mostly from Vietnam, who were allegedly working as prostitutes in multiple entertainment venues across Jakarta.

The Dong Hanh Scholarship Fund in Singapore (Dong Hanh Singapore) on January 15 organised a Gala Dinner to raise scholarship funds for disadvantaged Vietnamese students.

Vocational training needs radical and substantive changes, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a conference held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in Ho Chi Minh City on January 16.

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai on January 16 received Archbishop of the Hanoi Archdiocese Cardinal Nguyen Van Nhon who came to extend Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to the agency.

A Vietnamese company has created and presented a marble bust of Laos’s late President Souphanouvong to the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Vientiane.

The Prime Minister has instructed relevant ministries to allocate rice, antiseptic and vaccines from the national reserves to support localities in need.

A charitable programme has been held to bring a warm traditional lunar new year (Tet) festival to mountainous children. At the event, participants wrapped square cakes, to give to disadvantaged children.

The Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) on January 16 launched the Sao Khue Awards in 2017 under the sponsor of the Ministry of Information and Communications. 

VOV.VN - A fire that burned ‘hot and fast’ has destroyed a furniture store located at No. 913 De La Thanh Street in the Ba Dinh District of Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The time for the spring TET (Lunar New Year) holidays has come again, the time to engage in all the traditional rituals of marking the end of one year, and ushering in a new one.

VOV.VN - Overseas Vietnamese have enjoyed a warm celebration of the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) hosted recently by the Vietnamese permanent delegation to the United Nations in New York.