VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is offering students a short-term holiday work stint that is exciting and full of promise, providing them a rewarding experience working in the vibrant city over the TET holidays.

A workshop was held in Can Tho city on January 10 to seek measures to conserve water for agriculture and daily use in the Mekong Delta given the severe drought and saltwater intrusion.

VOV.VN - Economies in Vietnam and the other nine countries that comprise the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could conceivably see a bonanza of new jobs in 2017 and beyond, say many leading economists.

VOV.VN - The remains of 16 Vietnamese soldiers killed in the Vietnam-US War were received on January 11 in Dien Bien Province with the usual military honours, according to provincial authorities. 

VOV.VN - Ancient apricot trees in different shapes are taken care by artistic florists in HCM City and put up for sale at prices ranging from VND100 million to VND800 million for the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival.  

 Projects which fail to meet waste treatment requirements would be rejected, and completed projects would only be put into operation when their treatment of waste water treatment met environmental standards, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has stressed.

HCM City officials have asked telecommunications companies to redesign or replace more than 5,000 base transceiver stations (BTSs) located on top of houses and other buildings. 

Members of the 14th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee asked for measures to prevent planning overlap and wastefulness while discussing the draft Law on Planning at their on-going sixth session on January 10.

Total debt for basic construction in the new-style rural area building programme was reduced to about VND9.55 trillion (US$434 million) at the end of 2016 from over VND15.27 trillion (US$694 million) early last year, according to the Central Steering Committee for National Target Programmes.

Tens of thousands of posts have been removed in recent years in an effort to make the government leaner.

The revised law would cut the time mothers have to care for their new-borns.

Many new facilities have already broken down while the dedicated lanes are occupied by other vehicles.

There was a sharp increase in the recruitment demands for senior and mid-level managers in Vietnam in 2016 while new industries have been forecast to emerge in 2017, according to a recent report.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has announced specific routes for vehicles traveling into and out of the metropolis in a bid to reduce traffic congestion ahead of the Lunar New Year.

Urbanization in Vietnam has been growing beyond forecast due to a lack of control, many experts warned at a workshop that sought for the sustainability of the planning and resilience for the country’s urban areas in Hanoi on January 10.

2,223 sets of martyrs’ remains were found and reburied  in 2016, together with three collective martyrs’ graves, fulfilling 74% of the set target for the year, reported the National Steering Committee for Search and Collection of Martyrs’ Remains during a conference in Hanoi on January 10.

President Tran Dai Quang paid a Lunar New Year (Tet) visit to sick soldiers and war invalids being cared at the Nho Quan nursing centre in the northern province of Ninh Binh on January 10.

The Ministry of Transport needs to focus on its restructuring, adjusting planning schemes and strategies with detailed implementation roadmaps and ensuring traffic safety in 2017.

The Vietnam National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will work to increase Vietnam’s role in multilateral forums, said Chairman Le Hoai Trung during a meeting in Hanoi on January 10.

Vietnam always wants to further educational cooperation with the US as it is deploying three breakthrough tasks, such as improving qualifications of human resources, for rapid and sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.  

Peach blossoms are a flower typically used for decoration during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival in Vietnam. However, this year, abnormally hot weather has made them bloom earlier than expected, worrying growers.

Professor Alexander Vasilyev speaks on the history of superconductivity, the miraculous characteristics of superconductors and their technological implications.

VOV.VN - A program to encourage incentives to conserve and protect the environment of Ha Long Bay and raise public awareness about the area was launched in the northen province of Quang Ninh on January 10.

VOV.VN -A wooden cruise ship moored at the famous Halong Bay in Vietnam caught fire in the early morning hours of January 10 and burst into a ball of fire.

The south central coastal province of Binh Dinh aims to complete two apartment projects in Quy Nhon city that could accommodate 716 households in 2017, as part of the local social housing development plan for 2016 – 2020.

The unreasonably warm winter has caused up to 80% of the peach blossom (dao) trees in the capital city’s major peach blossom gardens to bloom prematurely, well ahead of the Tet (traditional Lunar New Year) holiday for which they are an indispensable decoration.

Seventeen young couples in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang joined a mass wedding ceremony held by the Youth Federation, the Trade Union and the broadcasting agency of the province on January 10, the third of its kind in the locality so far.

VOV.VN - Two area residents were killed when struck by an oncoming truck in the early morning hours of January 10 while fixing a flat tire next to National Highway 10.

Siemens Healthineers have launched a new ultrasound system in the Vietnamese market that will provide more efficient and reliable diagnosis, reducing the need for repeat examinations.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs investigated wages in 2,000 businesses with an average of 360 employees in 18 cities and provinces nationwide in 2016, with results indicating an increase from 2015.