HCM City and aviation authorities have taken measures to ensure security at Tan Son Nhat International Airport and ease congestion in and around it during the Tet (Lunar New Year) rush.

A delegation of over 100 overseas Vietnamese (OVs) offered incense to Kings of the Ly Dynasty at the Do temple in Tu Son township, the northern province of Bac Ninh on January 18, as part of the “Homeland Spring 2020” programme.

Several flower festivals and markets opened across Ho Chi Minh City on January 17, adding to the festive air in the city as the traditional New Year (Tet) festival is nearing.

Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Cambodia gathered at the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations in Phnom Penh on January 17, as the biggest Vietnamese traditional festival only about a week away.

An exhibition on women of the former Soviet Union kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on January 17.

Police of the central province of Nghe An have arrested two Lao drug traffickers, seizing 20 bricks of heroin and 12kg of methamphetamine.

Authorities of the central city of Da Nang held a gathering on January 17 with overseas Vietnamese (OVs) who returned to the homeland to welcome the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

A Vietnamese man described by authorities in Europe as a major people smuggler has been arrested in the United Kingdom.

The number of traffic accidents has fallen dramatically, just two weeks after the drink-driving law took, according to Major Gen. Le Xuan Duc, Deputy Director of the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS).

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 17 received Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School at the Harvard University.

Indonesia’s Detik news outlet calls Da Nang, the largest and most modern city in central Vietnam, “Vietnam’s Bali” favoured by both local and foreign travellers.

The Embassies of Vietnam in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Algeria recently held get-togethers to celebrate the country’s traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin of central Da Nang city aims to raise up to 10 billion VND (430,666 USD) in aid for local people affected by AO/Dioxin this year.

The central region of Vietnam has been listed in the top 15 must-see destinations in 2020 by the World Travel magazine.

Vietnamese embassies celebrated the upcoming Lunar New Year festival on January 15.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attended a meeting of over 200 female ex-soldiers and former young female volunteers in the east and west of southern region in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on January 16.

A national scientific teleconference took place in Hanoi on January 16 to discuss the role and leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in Vietnam’s struggle for national independence and freedom and the path to socialism.

The Hanoi People’s Court handed down a jail sentence of six years to Nguyen Huu Hue, born in 1967 in the central province of Nghe An, for illegally transporting and trading frozen tiger cubs.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Red Cross Society organised a festival on January 16 to provide humanitarian aid for the impoverished in the city.

The establishment and development of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in the past nine decades are featured at an exhibition that opened in the northern mountainous province of Son La on January 16.