VOV.VN - Vietnam’s government has been credited by lawmakers with steering the country through an unusually turbulent five-year term, citing flexible governance, resilience and a series of socio-economic achievements recorded amid global and domestic headwinds.

Canada’s Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai on January 7 visited the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, where six Canadian government-funded programmes and projects are being implemented.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s tourism industry recorded a series of major milestones in 2025, emerging as one of the country’s key growth engines and placing the Southeast Asian nation among the world’s fastest-growing tourism destinations, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.

State budget revenue reached approximately VND2.47 quadrillion (US$94 billion) by December 15, 2025, exceeding the target for the whole of 2025 by 25%, according to the Ministry of Finance.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has passed the 20 million international visitor mark in 2025, setting a tourism record and opening a new phase in which growth is increasingly tempered by sustainability concerns.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s labour market closed 2025 with signs of steady recovery, though structural challenges remain, particularly regarding workforce quality and mismatches between labour supply and demand.

VOV.VN - Japan will provide US$1.5 million in emergency non-refundable aid to help Vietnam recover from severe storm and flood damage in the central region, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on December 12.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam on December 11 chaired a national conference reviewing anti-corruption, anti-waste, and anti-negative conduct efforts during the 13th Party Congress term.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son on December 6 attended the launch for the peak period of the “Quang Trung Campaign”, a Government housing reconstruction initiative for families whose homes were destroyed by recent natural disasters, in D’ran commune of the central province of Lam Dong.

VOV.VN - Vietnam records around 24,600 new breast cancer cases and more than 10,000 deaths each year, with the number of cases doubling every decade, medical experts said at a breast cancer screening event held in Da Nang on December 5 by Dong A University.