VOV.VN - Bus and railway stations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have begun to attract larger crowds with less than one week to go before the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, known locally as Tet.

The Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam (IP Vietnam) under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) reported that it has received more than 156,000 applications to establish industrial property rights of all kinds last year, a year-on-year increase of 11%.

A building for preserving remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who had laid down their lives during wartime in Cambodia was inaugurated at a ceremony held on January 31.

In a historic medical breakthrough, Vietnam witnessed the first successful delivery of a baby over three weeks after having undergone foetal heart surgery.

There were 950 cyberattacks on Vietnam’s information system in January, a decline of 33% and 23% compared with that of December 2023 and the same period last year, respectively.

VOV.VN - Soldiers and residents on Song Tu Tay island of Truong Sa island district, Khanh Hoa province, have enjoyed an early lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, the largest of its kind in Vietnam, with gifts sent from the mainland.

VOV.VN - Officers at the Ha Tien International Border Gate in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, working in conjunction with Cambodian authorities, have rescued a Vietnamese girl who had been trafficked into the neighbouring country as a forced worker.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation to improve road traffic safety in Vietnam in the 2024 – 2026 period was signed between the Department of Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) under the Ministry of Transport and 3M Corporation of the US at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 30.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang on January 30 presented the Navy High Command with VND1.55 billion (US$63,500) donated by overseas Vietnamese (OV) to a programme on greening Truong Sa (Spratly).

The Vietnamese community in Thailand has grown strongly and played an important role in maintaining and cultivating the friendship relations between the two countries, said Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh.