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).

The health ministry, however, says the idea was included in the draft law just as a point of reference.

Experts in Vietnam and other countries are voicing their concern over the use and overwork of elephants for tourism activities in Southeast Asia.

Elephant conservation comes into spotlight.

A British family traveling through Vietnam had their property returned after accidentally leaving it in their compartment after a journey earlier this week.

The highest Lunar New Year (Tet) bonus for a company employee is VND1 billion (US$44,289), according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - Thousands of cars got stuck at the entrance of Tan Son Nhat International Airport from the afternoon to evening of January 12. 

Having US$400,000 to spare in Vietnam leaves one with an abundance of spending options – high-rise apartments, luxury cars, or simply a SIM card with a lucky number.

The development of grass-roots medical work and provision of health services to all people are a focal assignment of the health sector in 2017, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.  

Culture should be well positioned as other crucial sectors in national economic development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while addressing a conference reviewing the performance in 2016 and initiating tasks for 2017 for the cultural, sports and tourism sector.

The Ba Ria – Vung Tau provincial People’s Committee and the government of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, have signed cooperation agreements and an action plan between the two localities.

“Spring for Children” programme, which aims help poor children enjoy a warmer Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, will be held on January 14, revealed the organising board during a press conference on January 12.

The Da Nang Orthopedics & Rehabilitation Hospital handed over materials to make prosthetic arms and legs to orthopedics centre 686 in Keun village of Vientiane province, central Laos, on January 12.

VOV.VN - Delegates gathered in Hanoi on January 11 for a conference discussing tourism policies aimed at boosting the number of inbound travellers to the City in 2017 and subsequent years.

Close to 2 million people nationwide directly participated in activities in response to the “Action month for environment” and World Environment Day.

VOV.VN -A 1,000 square-meter wood furniture warehouse located at Dong Hiep Commune, Di An District, Binh Duong Province was gutted by fire at around 9:50 a.m. on January 12, burning everything in its path, causing great loss of property.

VOV.VN - Faced with maddening amounts of traffic that overburden urban infrastructure, officials of the city of Hanoi have gotten progressive—offering a US$200,000 reward for innovative solutions to the traffic gloom.

A meeting was held in Hanoi on January 12 to report on the implementation of the Vietnam National Green Growth Strategy in the 2012-2016 period.

Anger broke out on social networks when it was discovered that an iconic building in the former imperial capital city of Hue had been changed completely while being restored.

Epicor Software Corporation on January 11 signed an agreement with the HCM City Open University to provide the latest enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for application in training and research to enable students to get more practical experience.

VOV.VN - Over recent years, there have been many kinds of novel and imported flowers sold on the domestic market for people to buy as home decorations for the traditional lunar New Year (Tet).

In 2017, Central Highlands provinces need to continue fully exploiting their potential to promote economic development and social security, particularly among ethnic minority groups, said Senior Lieutenant General To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands Region.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project improving the teaching of Vietnamese for people living abroad.

The Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform convened its second session in Hanoi on Jan. 11. President Tran Dai Quang, head of the committee, chaired the event.

The Military Command of the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has safely defused a 60kg bomb in Tran Yen district on January 11.

Charles Jackson, a US veteran and prisoner during the war in Vietnam, expressed his wish to find his war-time rescuers during a meeting with the Vietnam-US Society (VUS) on January 11.

VOV.VN -Four construction workers were injured on January 11 in a sudden scaffold collapse right after they completed the construction of concrete roof of  Luxury Apartment in the central city of Danang.

A suitcase left by a tourist from the UK on the Da Nang – Saigon SE7 train on January 10 was returned to him one day later with all his posessions intact.