Japan will promote comprehensive cooperation from policy, technology to financial issues with Vietnam to help it realize a zero-carbon society, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio has affirmed in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

Predictability and transparency in the policy framework will be the key for Vietnam to overcome the crisis and the positive outlook will put the country in a much better position to aim for an investment rating in the near future, Olivier Rousselet, Country Director of BNP Paribas Vietnam, has said.

Vietnam News Agency spoke to Lại Xuân Thanh, chairman of the board of the State-owned Airports Corporation of Việt Nam, the main investor of the Long Thành International Airport, on the progress of the megaproject in southern Việt Nam.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that it had issued a decision to suspend work of four officials of its Consular Department to serve the investigation into a bribery case

Việt Nam reported 15,150 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, including 50 imported and 15,100 domesticaly-transmitted cases.

The Embassy of Vietnam in Ukraine on January 28 held a get-together for the Vietnamese community in the European couuntry on the threshold of the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

The inflow of foreign investment into Vietnam hit over USUSD 2.1 billion in January, up 4.2 percent year-on-year, marking good signals for the country's investment attraction, the latest report from the Foreign Investment Agency showed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on January 29 that it had issued a decision to suspend work of four officials of its Consular Department to serve the investigation into a case of taking bribes while licensing the firms that conducted repatriation flights for Vietnamese people.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung has said that the socio-economic recovery programme set out by the Party and State is reachable if social welfare and safety of people are ensured.

By 2030, there would be 28 airports around the country, helping 95 percent of the population access an airport within 100km from their residence.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 28 decided to reduce death penalties to life sentences for four prisoners, on the occasion of the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

A cremation ceremony for Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh was held at Vĩnh Hằng Cemetery Park in Huế City, the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế, on January 29.

As cases in the capital began to sharply rise over Christmas, members of HCM City-based Nhất Tâm Charity Group headed to the capital to provide a helping hand.

Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives joined a special event in the city to celebrate Tết (Lunar New Year).

Home treatment for mild and asymptomatic COVID-19 patients with medical support from local health workers has been proved to be solutions to safely adapt to the pandemic in southern Vĩnh Long Province, helping patients feel more secure and reducing pressure on medical facilities, the provincial Health Department has said.

Love, family values and motherhood are the themes in new music videos by artists Phan Mạnh Quỳnh, Bùi Công Nam and Tăng Nhật Tuệ, released to celebrate Tết (Lunar New Year), which begins on February 1. 

Days leading up to Tết (Lunar New Year) are the busiest but happiest time of the year for the industrious flower farmers in Xuân Quan Village in the northern province of Xuân Quan.

Bến Thành station on HCM City’s first metro route is 95% complete.

A new circular issued by the Ministry of Education and Training confirms that private secondary schools will benefit from tax, credits and other preferential policies.