VOV.VN - The Lunar New Year festival, known locally as Tet, is a time for family reunions, but for dialysis patients living in boarding houses near hospitals, it is both a long-awaited moment and a bittersweet one as they must stay close to their life-saving treatments to battle illness day by day.

Various tourist attractions are opening their doors for free this Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, making it easier for visitors to immerse themselves in Vietnamese traditions.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Tet Book Street Festival 2025 opened on January 28, showcasing nearly 68,000 copies of books from 22 publishing houses and businesses.

2025 marks the beginning of a new cycle for the housing market in Ho Chi Minh City, characterised by abundant supply and improved product quality, driven by increasing competition among real estate developers, said Executive Director of CBRE Vietnam Duong Thuy Dung.

VOV.VN - A national online conference on eradicating makeshift and dilapidated houses will be held on January 6, 2025, to evaluate and work out solutions to eliminate substandard housing across the country, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

VOV.VN - Wonderful rhythms and lyrics will be featured at the “Happiness Concert” due to take place at the Ho Guom Opera House in Hanoi on December 29 to ring in New Year 2025.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspected the construction site of the Lao Cai - Hanoi - Hai Phong railway project and attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a social housing project in Lao Cai city in the northern mountainous province of the same name on December 22.

VOV.VN - As many as 3,922 fires and explosions occurred across Vietnam from September 2023 to September 2024, killing 103 people and injuring 78 others, with losses valued at VND296.1 billion, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

VOV.VN - A massive fire broke out at a four-story lodging house in Ho Chi Minh City early on December 20, killing two locals and injuring more than 10, according to local police.

Japan has invested in 5,369 projects worth US$76.76 billion in Vietnam as of the end of the second quarter this year, making it the third largest foreign investor in the country, Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Tuong Van told the 9th Vietnam-Japan Conference on Construction in Hanoi.