VOV.VN - President Luong Cuong met with officials and employees of the Presidential Office at the start of the Lunar New Year, extending Lunar New Year greetings and calling for stronger reform and greater responsibility in fulfilling assigned duties.

Despite a challenging year of 2025, Vietnam’s sports sector has demonstrated remarkable resilience and progress, further enhancing the country’s standing on the international stage through the Olympic movement and strategic investment in high-performance sports.

Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW, issued by the Politburo on January 6, 2026, reaffirms the leading role of the state sector in the socialist-oriented market economy while requesting stronger governance reform, deeper power decentralisation, more effective public investment, and expanded cooperation with the private sector.

Ambassador Mai Phan Dung, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, is leading a delegation to attend the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) where they will engage proactively in consultations on 36 draft resolutions and introduce two initiatives.

VOV.VN - Two more Vietnamese celebrities Miss Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen and Miss Grand Vietnam Doan Thien An have been officially nominated for the 2026 Top 100 Most Beautiful Faces in the World, an annual ranking by TC Candler.

Ho Chi Minh City is witnessing a structural shift in foreign direct investment (FDI), marked by the emergence of billion-dollar projects in data centres, digital infrastructure and financial technology.

Naval Ship 016 – Quang Trung of Brigade 162, Naval Region 4, left Cam Ranh Port on February 23 for Sydney to join the International Fleet Review commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy and the multilateral Kakadu naval exercise 2026.

VOV.VN - General Secretary To Lam chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on February 24 in Hanoi to review implementation of Directive No. 55 on organizing the Lunar New Year of the Horse (Tet Binh Ngo).

VOV.VN - UNIVACCO Technology Inc., a Tainan-based technology manufacturer, has chosen Vietnam as its strategic production base in Southeast Asia after leasing nearly 30,000 square meters of industrial land at Long Thanh Industrial Park in Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai province.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s teenage shuttler Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen has been recognised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) as the fastest-rising women’s singles player in the world over the past year.