Pop singer Hoàng Duyên says her musical mission is to take creative material from the pentatonic scale, and shoot music videos in picturesque destinations throughout Việt Nam to help promote tourism. Kim Chi talks to Duyên about her musical journey and future plans.

The fifth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on May 4 under the chair of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

 The Government has urged cities and provinces nationwide to raise the health insurance coverage rate to 95.15 percent by 2025.

Bookworms in Hà Nội can enjoy new and classical books written by European authors within European Literature Days 2022 that will take place in the capital city from May 5-15.

As many as 104 traffic accidents occurred nationwide during the four-day holiday, claiming 55 lives and injuring 84 people, according to the Traffic Police Department.

Vietnam's rice exports to Europe continued to grow in the first quarter of 2022, thanks to the Europe-Vietnam free trade agreement (EVFTA), according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The late Vietnamese painter Lê Phổ (1907-2001) has achieved a new record with the sale of Figures in a Garden, a three-panel painting that was originally displayed at a 1973 exhibition in Palm Beach.

Ministries, agencies, and localities are asked to take effective, drastic, and comprehensive measures to ensure the safety of children, particularly during the summer and the rainy and storm season.

Experts from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) warned that as summer approaches, people should closely monitor forecasts to have preventive measures in place for thunderstorms and tornadoes.

No COVID-19 related deaths were reported in Việt Nam nearly a year since the fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the country. 

Police of Da Lat city in Lam Dong province on May 3 announced the information saying that a Russian singer was arrested in Da Lat for protesting the war in Ukraine was false.

A woman has been rescued after falling off a cliff and spending a week in the wilderness. 

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang made a two-day working trip to Nice city to seek stronger cooperation between Vietnamese localities and the French coastal city.

Preventing environmental degradation and developing low-carbon economic models are some of the targets set forth by the national strategy for environmental protection through 2030, with a vision toward 2050 recently announced by the Prime Minister.

Sa Pa, a famous tourist attraction in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, welcomed a record number of 98,000 visitors during the National Reunification Day and May Day holiday, a 122-percent rise over the same time in 2019 before COVID-19 broke out, according to the Culture-Information Division of the town.

The Government sets targets to prevent the increasing trend of environmental pollution, solve urgent environmental problems, and gradually improve and restore the quality of the environment.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MONRE) is working on a draft decree revising six decrees guiding the Land Law, with a view to resolving existing land-related problems pending the promulgation of a new Land Law.

Informal charges continue to decline in most business-government interactions, according to the 2021 Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) released by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) last week.

The health ministry announced 3,123 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, including one imported and 3,122 local cases.