The new route is designed to reduce private vehicle traffic to Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

A ceremony was held in Vientiane on January 15 to hand over interior equipment, worth VND6.6 billion (US$300,000) in total, to the Lao National Academy of Politics and Public Administration.

The People’s Supreme Court has launched a video teleconference system at district-level people’s courts.

A ceremony was held in Vientiane on January 15 to hand over interior equipment, worth VND6.6 billion (US$300,000) in total, to the Laos National Academy of Politics and Public Administration.

Urbanisation and a sharp increase in population have presented a number of challenges for Hanoi, one of which is the collection and treatment of household waste in a way that causes minimal impact to the environment.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visited and presented gifts to poor households and welfare policy beneficiaries in the northern mountainous province of Son La on January 14-15, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. 

The Ministry of Education and Training is setting up a programme to retrain surplus teachers in secondary and high schools, to deal with current shortages in kindergartens.

Finland’s education and the best-selling book “Finnish Lesson 2.0” were main topics of a talk held on January 13 in Hanoi as part of activities to celebrate the 100th independence day of Finland.

At least 2,300 swimming pools must be built to accommodate swimming lessons for public high school students, according to the city’s Department of Culture and Sports.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs is drafting a decree on compulsory social insurance for occupational accidents and diseases, in which the insurance rate is proposed at 0.5% of a company’s total payroll fund, compared to the current 1%.

With the Vietnamese government recently revealing that local gamblers will be allowed to enter casinos on home soil in a three-year pilot scheme, a set of strict requirements they have to meet have been outlined in a draft decree.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese markets come in all sizes. In the city, markets are often bigger and more crowded than in a village or commune. Each of them also has a name and a story behind it. We now explore the meaning of some Vietnamese markets' names.

VOV.VN - Uruguay on January 13 opened a consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, with an eye toward expanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation with Vietnam and other countries throughout Southeast Asia.

VOV.VN - On January 13, State President Tran Dai Quang took part in a ceremony raising the National flag atop Fansipan mountain, the highest peak in Indochina, at 3,143 metres.

Police say the gang distracted their victims and then grabbed their cash.

A cable car developer has proposed building a cable-propelled transit system for passengers to reach Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, instead of struggling in the usually crowded main streets leading to Vietnam’s busiest airdrome.

Promoting women empowerment is a focus in making policies and action plans in the evaluation progress of Vietnam’s economic restructuring, said Nguyen Dinh Cung, head of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) at a workshop in Hanoi on January 13.

An exhibition featuring maps and documents affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes opened in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on January 13.

VOV.VN - This week’s bitter cold temperatures are challenging for people whose jobs require them to spend most of their time outside. 

Ho Chi Minh City wants to boost cooperation with Japanese localities in a more practical and effective manner, especially in the fields of hi-tech agriculture, support industry,  high technology and human resources training.

President Tran Dai Quang on January 13 visited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to state policy beneficiaries, poor households in Gia Phu commune, Bao Thang district, and Ban Khoang commune, Sa Pa district, in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

A delegation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee visited and presented gifts to people in the flood-hit south central province of Phu Yen on January 13.

VOV.VN - Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City has been at its busiest as travellers, many of them expatriates working overseas, fly home for TET, while fewer jet out to spend the New Year abroad.

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) organised a seminar on technology demand of the business community in Hanoi on January 13, in order to help with the building of a Vietnam-Korea Institute of Science and Technology (V-KIST).

In the age of the internet, Hanoi's mayor said the old system has become obsolete and urged local officials to review their effectiveness.

The HCM City Department of Transport in the first quarter of this year will finish mapping out a plan to build bus-only lanes on some roads to improve public transit services.

The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang in 2016 strived to implement ethnic policies effectively, improving living conditions and social affairs for local ethnic groups, especially Khmer people.

Customs Department of HCM City has said it would cut by half the amount of processing time to complete customs documents for import and export businesses.

The capital seeks public opinions to unblock the gridlock as the city cannot keep up with the rapidly growing number of personal vehicles.

The average bonus given to Vietnamese workers for Tet (Lunar New Year), a week-long festival that falls at the end of this month, is VND4.9 million (US$218) per worker, almost equivalent to a month’s average salary and 96% of last year’s level of VND5.1 million (US$227).