The Peace Corps’ English education programme in Việt Nam, officially established with the signing of an implementing agreement in July 2020, is a collaborative partnership between the Peace Corps and Việt Nam’s Ministry of Education and Training.

Authorities of the northern province of Dien Bien on December 30 re-buried the remains of four Vietnamese martyrs who died in Laos during wartime.

The year 2022 has been full of rapid and unexpected changes. As the year is drawing to a close, we present you the top 10 domestic events chosen by the Vietnam News Agency.

Taking advantage of people’s lack of understanding of the law in the transfer of land use rights, Luyện and his accomplices counterfeited residential projects, illegally divided and separated land plots and sold them to thousands of people to illegally appropriate VNĐ2.4 trillion.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a ceremony on December 29 to connect the land database with the National Population Database and sign the regulation on work coordination with the Ministry of Public Security.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Minister of Transport and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of the 38 cities and provinces where expressways run through to instruct authorities under their wings to conduct compensation and resettlement in line with legal regulations.

A countdown music party to welcome the New Year will be held in downtown HCM City on December 31.

Tiny Planet, Paradise Guava Tree, Puffy-Haired Girl, Behind the Witchcraft, The Legend of the Nêu tree, and Miracle of Dạ Trạch Lagoon were among the six best films chosen to be screened at the premiere.

HCM City has plans to restore 31 monuments and relics across districts and Thủ Đức City, including Tân Quy Đông communal house and Hưng Lợi ceramic kiln.

Việt Nam needs comprehensive measures, including improving service quality and removing all restrictions related to visa policies, to attract more foreign tourists, experts said.

HCM City will select contractors this month to conduct a feasibility study report for construction of the Thủ Thiêm 4 bridge.

The bribery and forgery case was discovered after HCM City’s traffic police officers discovered a mismatch between the actual dimensions of a truck and the figures in the database of the registration centre earlier in October.

The HCM City Labour Federation needs to better represent workers through collective bargaining that enables workers to get fair wages and working conditions, a leader of the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labor said.

Good cultural and moral values and resources of religious organisations will be promoted in environmental protection and climate change response under a programme reached in Ho Chi Minh City on December 29.

More than 100 objects, documents and photos were put on display in Vientiane on December 29, featuring the relationship between Vietnam and its neighbour Laos.

Snowfall appearing on the top of Mount Fansipan, a rare phenomenon in a tropical country like Vietnam, attracted a large number of both domestic and international tourists to the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on December 29.

The judges did, however, reduce his life sentence to 20 years for receiving bribes and an additional two years for organising the illegal emigration of other people,’.

The central highlands province of Đắk Lắk jointly co-operated with the Đông Á University in launching the central highlands-based campus in serving high-quality human resource education for five provinces.

Vietnam’s tourism sector targets to serve about 8 million foreign visitors from the total of 110 million next year, according to the General Administration of Vietnam Tourism.

The rate of poor households in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has dropped to 0.52% in 2022, 0.28% lower than the figure last year.